SO, If i burn calories i have to eat them back??

Articeluvsmemphis

you're allowed to eat them. estimate the calories burned on the lower end, but yes eat them. you can lose weight with and without eating them. but being on a very low calorie diet is not good for long term benefits. you'll more than likely gain it back if you're starving yourself. if you're hungry eat, legitimate hunger, not boredom or from emotions. and you should do well

shelbiejo

Today If i didnt exercise i would have had a net calories of over 1000, but i worked out & burned like 300 .//
I heard you must eat them back ? I dont think so .

You aren't even eating 1200 calorie:huh:

Um..1200 is the bare minimum you SHOULD be eating without starving your body. You will not lose anything but muscle and start to store fat if you don't eat at least 1200. I know this from personal experience.

Eating only 1000 and then burning off 300 means that your body is running on 700 calories....Not enough.:noway:

CaSome11

wut

dont u speak english .

this is so funny to me

YES!

yoLore

The minium calories you should have at the end of the day (after the workouts and eating) should be NO LESS than 1200. Why? Because, you don't want your body to into starvation mode. If after you work out you have less than 1200 calories then you need to bring it up to that number. Remember the magic number is 1200. :glasses:

jkh107

I eat the calories I "earn" for several reasons:

1) 1270 calories a day, my normal goal, is is pretty low and sometimes leaves me hungry unless I am careful in my choice of foods (I am very short and do desk work, that's why MFP set it so low); also it's nice to "earn" a treat at the end of the day.

2) Rapid weight loss / eating too little makes your body really efficient at hoarding calories. I had 2 rapid weight losses due to illness and I have had trouble with my weight ever since! You don't want to send your body into famine mode--that makes it even harder to lose weight in the future and very easy to gain.

SelkieDiver

Can anyone help me with this please?! Very similar question but i'm new to the site and a bit confused...

When I do exercise (additional to my general daily activities) my 'NET' at the end of the day is a lot lower than my 'goal' i.e today it was approx 300 at the end of the day but I had burnt about 600cals in exercise as the rest of the day I had been doing nothing

I assume this is good for weight loss?

I'm slightly confused with the meaning of NET as alot of other sites seem to suggest that its the same as deficit which it isn't right?

Hi Laura - let me use myself as an example. My daily intake is set for 1465. I generally burn 600 calories per day (on average). If I only ate my recommended intake of 1465, my NET would be 1465-600 = 865. If I ate back all my 600 calories burned off by exercise, my NET would be 1465. Either way, I'm still at a deficit for the day.

Your daily intake + your exercise calories = TDEE (total daily exercise expenditure). I tend to eat TDEE - 20% which means I eat back about 80% of my exercise calories.

Hope that helps, and hope I got the math right!