Exercise Calories

Jenloma

My calorie intake per day is suppose to be at 1200, but I've been using my exercise calories. Is this okay or will I not be loosing weight using some of the exercise calories. Myfitnesspal always tells me I have remaining calories. Thanks!

BaileyBoo13524

Definitely okay to eat them...eat them all everyday and you will be fine! Just make sure your calories burned from exercise are accurate!

susannamarie

I eat them and lose.

islandesskeemo

I am a little confused. DO you mean that you are eating the equivolent to your exercise calories?

You should be eating your GOAL calories so 1200. If you exercise also that day, in theory you could eat those calories also.

For example my day yesterday was,

GOAL 1400 FOOD(calories I ate) 1430 EXERCISE 1864 NET (food minus exercise) -434 REMAINING (the calories that I could and still be on track) 1834

If I would have eaten less than 1200 MFP would tell me that I didn't eat enough (this is because MFP auto set my calories to 1200 but I added 200 because I know I need more calories).

Some days when I have a high remaining balance I will eat the equivalent of my exercise calories, but I always try to eat at least my GOAL.. On this day if I would have done that I would have shown a remaining of 1200.

I hope that helps.

fyi: I lost 1.1 lbs that day.

taso42

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

Pebble321

If you used MFP to set your daily calorie goal, then the system assumes you will eat extra when you exercise in order to reach your recommended daily total.
So in this case - yes, you should eat them.

If you use another system to work out your daily calorie intake, then follow what they suggest.

Be aware that just about every calorie calculator suggest you eat more when you exercise, MFP just uses a different method to get to the same end result.

Jenloma

I eat below 1200 actually...usually its about 900, close to 1200 calories.
I just saw exercise calories and the site states that I have more calories to my total after working out.
Right now, this is what I have :

209 CALORIES REMAINING
Goal 1200
Food1378
Exercise -378
Net 991

misao1994

For me, when I ate my exercise calories I didn't lose any weight. I stopped doing that and I've now just started losing weight. It depends how much of a deficit you're creating by lowering your calories though.

JBott84

I eat below 1200 actually...usually its about 900, close to 1200 calories.
I just saw exercise calories and the site states that I have more calories to my total after working out.
Right now, this is what I have :

209 CALORIES REMAINING
Goal 1200
Food1378
Exercise -378
Net 991

If you are set to 1200 - then you want your NET to say 1200 The net # is what is important! That is the easiest explanation I can give - hope that helps

Jenloma

Thanks for the replies

triciab79

The truly important thing is to make sure your calories burned are not over estimated. I see so many people saying they burned 1000 calories doing housework and that is not realistic. Adding exercise calories just so it looks like you didn't go over is only cheating yourself.

Maurice1966

I eat them and lose.

http://www.coachcalorie.com/not-eating-enough-calories-to-lose-weight/

If you run your car at 100mph (exercise) then you're going to need to refuel (food). What MFP tells you is what you should be refuelling to if you're doing 30mph. IF MFP tells you 1200 and you earn 300 you should eat 1500 beacuse the 1200 alreay allows for weight loss targets. If you continue to not eat the calories (no I won't say staration mode) but you will definitely have less energy. The article above is a good, simple read and explains it well. Good luck

Cait_Sidhe

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/

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