Making up for burned calories?

jibbs89
jibbs89 Posts: 13
in Food and Nutrition
Okay so I am a little confused. If my calorie deficit is set at 1400 calories a day, I understand that I should eat 1400 on a day I don't exercise. But today, for example, I burned about 450 calories during my workout and my daily goal on MFP went up higher.

So let's say for instance I ate about 800 calories up until dinner time. If I didn't exercise that day, I could eat about a 400 calorie dinner and end up around 1200. (my doc recommended 1200 for me and that's usually where I end up naturally). But if I burned off 450 calories through working out, MFP puts my consumed back to 350. So should I eat extra calories to get that 350 up around 1200? Or just eat 400 calories...? Cus if I only ate 400 calories, my net for the day would only be 750 calories. That's bad, right? Or is that what you're supposed to do...? I'm confused. Help!

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  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Yes, MFP is set up that you are supposed to eat back your exercise calories. As you said, you are already at a deficit at 1400, so if you burn 400 in exercise, the site shows that you should eat more.

    Some people eat all of them back, some eat half, depends on the person and whether or not they are hungry. The "standard" lowest cals for women is 1200, so I personally feel you should at least net that much per day.

    Does that make sense? :tongue:

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