Calorie Deficit

judy11002
judy11002 Posts: 1
edited January 1 in Introduce Yourself
Hi, I'm trying MFP for the first time. I'm trying to rid10lbs and I'm having a little bit of difficulty figuring out how best to meet my goal. My profile is showing a deficit of 400 calories. Do I need to eat 400 more calories a day to reach my goal? Do I need to decrease the number of days I exercise or the amount of hours I exercise to balance things out? What does it all mean?????

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  • ipsamet
    ipsamet Posts: 436 Member
    You want to net your calorie goal for the day, so yes, that means that if you exercise you need to eat more that day!
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    IF you set your profile up with a goal to "lose weight" you want to net your calories (eating back exercise calories to maintain deficit at the "desired" rate of loss level) if you set your profile to maintain weight, but are using your exercise calories to create a deficit for weight loss then you'd not eat the calories then.

    MFP doesn't "believe you" on your planned exercise. You can try it, set 0 minutes of planned exercise, now set something really high like 3600 minutes of planned exercise. Daily calorie goal is exactly the same. Until you log a cardio exercise as complete when MFP gives you more calories you can eat to keep your calories at the "right" level.
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