Eat your burnt calories??

mrs_sarahd818
mrs_sarahd818 Posts: 11
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Something that doesnt make any sense to me is that you have to eat the calories you burn while exercising otherwise your body goes into starvation mode, right? How does that help you lose weight? Whats the point in exercising if thats the case? I thought in order to lose weight you must put out more calories than you take in. Please help me understand this.

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  • BrendaLee
    BrendaLee Posts: 4,463 Member
    Exercise is good for your health, and whether you eat the calories or not, it still aids in a healthy lifestyle. It's kinda necessary to overall health. :)

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    You eat those calories to maintain the deficit MFP has set for you. Maintaining the deficit promotes a healthy, safe, steady weight loss.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    Exercising also allows you to eat more food. So for those that have trouble cutting calories down they can keep them high and exercise to make the deficit needed to loose weight.
  • JustAmy
    JustAmy Posts: 291
    This explains it very very well:
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/75964-exercise-calorie-question-answered

    Good Luck!
  • mrs_sarahd818
    mrs_sarahd818 Posts: 11
    Thanks everyone for your input. That link that was posted was very helpful. I now have a better understanding of it.
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