Net calories and losing weight

AlexanderK1994
AlexanderK1994 Posts: 243 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
On some sites I visited it is advised that your net should be at loss (as in you exercise out more calories than you eat) but on MFP people say that you're supposed eat them back. I'm a little confused here...
And I'm sorry if somebody asked that before, I just couldn't find it.

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  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    On some sites I visited it is advised that your net should be at loss (as in you exercise out more calories than you eat) but on MFP people say that you're supposed eat them back. I'm a little confused here...
    And I'm sorry if somebody asked that before, I just couldn't find it.

    If you are following MFP's guided calorie goal, it already has a deficit of 500-1000 depending on whether you chose 1-2lb per week to lose.

    If you exercise you will make that defict larger, so it tells you to eat the calories back to maintain the defict you chose.

    i.e if you had a defict of 1000, and you burned 500, then your defict is now 1500. so you eat an extra 500, to get the defict back to 1000.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    On some sites I visited it is advised that your net should be at loss (as in you exercise out more calories than you eat) but on MFP people say that you're supposed eat them back. I'm a little confused here...
    And I'm sorry if somebody asked that before, I just couldn't find it.

    This is a very hot button issue- and the confusion generally is because there are almost as many ways to calculate your TDEE as people's opinions on the subject. Here's a start:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/577873-beginning-to-think-it-s-calories-consumed-vs-net-instead

    But there are tons of threads on this, use the search function on "net calories" or "eating exercise calories" or "TDEE"
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    On some sites I visited it is advised that your net should be at loss (as in you exercise out more calories than you eat) but on MFP people say that you're supposed eat them back. I'm a little confused here...
    And I'm sorry if somebody asked that before, I just couldn't find it.

    This may help - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/6556-the-answers-to-the-questions

    There are some very useful threads at the top of this forum.
  • AlexanderK1994
    AlexanderK1994 Posts: 243 Member
    Thank you everyone :)
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