Confused : exercise calories?

I seen this a few times myself but don’t really read into it.
I think the focus on anything other then what your own body tells you just does not make since to me anymore. Personal if I feel like I am getting enough food for energy then I am. If I feel weak I eat which never happens I am more likely to feel tired because I ate to much then weak from lack of enough. I can only speak from my own personal experience. I say listen to your body, it will tell you when it needs energy and how much.

This is my take on exercise calories. You tell MFP what activity you do in a normal day. I work in an office and sit all day. So I am sedentary.

MFP then calculates the calories you need to power your body and maintain. It then gives you a deficit figure based on your weight lose goal, in my case -1000 calories per day. OK so in my case if I eat 2800 cal a day I should stay the same but if I eat 1800 calories I will project to lose 2lb per week.

So then I go out on a long walk and burn an extra 500 calories. So on this good exercise day I now need 3300 (2800 + 500) to stay still and 2300 to lose 2lb per week.

If you eat the exercise calories back you still have the same deficit figure of -1000, if you dont eat them back you will have a bigger deficit figure.

I am a big bloke so can not comment on the issues of 1200 calories intake as a minimum, but lots of other people will be able to explain that one.

Personally I tend to eat most of mine back. It means I can play rugby or a game of squash and have a beer afterwards and still have calories in my day.