Confused on NET/GROSS calories

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  • cadaverousbones
    cadaverousbones Posts: 421 Member
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    So when you set up MFP it has you chose your activity level. It then gives you a calorie amount to eat to lose weight if you didn't enter in any exercise. When you enter exercise into MFP it adds extra calories for you to eat. This way you do not have a super high calorie deficit. This is the way MFP works. So you should be eating back the exercise calories. If its only 100 or so calories I wouldn't worry about it but if you are burning 800 calories, definitely try to eat most of those back.


    If you are doing TDEE (Where you figure out your BMR and all that) you DO NOT eat back your exercise calories. So it depends which way you are tracking calories!
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
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    This is so old... I gave ridiculously crappy advice lol.

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