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AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?

lucy529
lucy529 Posts: 127 Member
edited January 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok so I set my calories to 1200 a day after logging my exercise for the day I get pretty close to 1000 extra calories but am only eating about 1300 for the whole day which leaves me with an extra 700 or so I don't eat them as am full and feel that that is why am exercising in the first place, am I doing this wrong or is ok to have that many calories left over?

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  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    NO.


    If you tell MFP you want to lose two pounds a week, they build in the calorie deficit needed to lose that weight - essentially if you NET 1200 calories a day, science says you'll lose two pounds a week. If you exercise, you need to eat more to make up for those burned calories, bringing your net total back to 1200. You can't survive on a net 300 calories a day.


    Also, you seem new here, so search for "eat more to weight less", because you probably should net more than 1200 a day every day anyway.
  • ashdawg8790
    ashdawg8790 Posts: 819 Member
    Congrats on the dedication to working out! I wish I had that much ambition!! Way to go, man! :smile:
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    NO.

    ^^ this, your pretty much setting yourself up for an epic failure at that rate. try setting to 1lbs per week or even .5.

    1000 extra calorie buns? Might I ask what you are doing? If I burn 1000 calories and only netted 300, I'd be so dizzy and passed out on the road.
  • tisha_rae
    tisha_rae Posts: 216 Member
    The calorie deficit is already planned in....and really there are few times when eating less than 1200 is really okay - it is the least that a person usually needs in order to run just regular body functions w/o exercise.

    I've found that if I have more than 200 calories left over for more than a day or two a week I stop losing. I try really, really hard to never eat less than 1200. I try for a range of 1200 to 1300 a day....I'm not currently working out - but when I start training for my mini marathon I will still try to keep around the same deficit.

    Good Luck to you
  • lucy529
    lucy529 Posts: 127 Member
    Thanks for your replies I thought that I might be doing something wrong with the eating

    exercise wise I walk alot not only at home but at work as well also some work out dvds, I really don't have spare moment on some days so am very active then i get home from work and work out some more i do those walk at home dvds which one would think would not burn a lot of calories but it gets me sweating pretty good

    i am going to change some of my settings thanks for all your help

    So my net calories need to be 1200 right? I guess I need to get to eating I have been netting about 400 to 600 that could explain a lot of things
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