Calories, fat and exercise question

styupe
styupe Posts: 2
in Fitness and Exercise
I'm a little confused. I know I have to eat the calories I burn exercising back. So if I want to be at about 1300 calories and burn 700, I would eat around 2000. But what about the fat, do I increase that too, or not since I know I am burning the calories off? For example I try to get 25% of my calories from fat. But do I use the 1300 or 2000 number? I am guessing the 1300, but I'm not sure.

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  • drgndancer
    drgndancer Posts: 426 Member
    If you use the MFP phone app it's not obvious, but MFP actually adds macros to your total when you log exercise as well as adding calories. In fact I suspect it adds the macros and determines your extra calories from there, but I don't know how their algorithm works. At any rate if you look at the web site you can track your macros as well as calories and MFP takes care of adjusting them for exercise. I just added my workout and all my macros went up.

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