Calories

pamays
pamays Posts: 20
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Do I have to use all of my calories each day? I am new here trying to learn

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  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    Yes. You are trying to get as close to that number as you can. Don't sweat it if you're off a little.
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    i loves me my calories.
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
    You get to eat them all..
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  • needles85365
    needles85365 Posts: 491 Member
    Depends what you have your calories set at? For the most part 1 or 2 days below won't hurt, unless you are waking up starving and lose control the next day. You want to make sure you are feeding your body
  • pamays
    pamays Posts: 20
    I worked out and said bye bye to 550 calories... now I feel like I would be wasting my time by getting them back :)
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    how did you come up with your burn?

    also if you open your food diary it would help.

    sometimes if the burn is a guess you could eat a portion back to allow for error

    dont forget MFP already subtracts calories for weight loss...this is why you eat the exercise back
  • pamays
    pamays Posts: 20
    So let me see if I understand this... I take my dailey calories...eat...- all the calories from my food...go workout burn 500 calories and then add the 500 back in...and eat more..
  • pamays
    pamays Posts: 20
    At the gym the equipment tells me how many calories I use
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    I worked out and said bye bye to 550 calories... now I feel like I would be wasting my time by getting them back :)

    The thing with that is, you already have the deficit accounted for when you start the day for the amount you want to lose, for instance, if you want to lose 1 pound a week, then your daily deficit is 500 calories a day. When you exercise, you increase that deficit, so MFP suggests you eat those calories as well. Many people eat back half, some don't eat them at all, some eat every one of them.
  • chocobunny122
    chocobunny122 Posts: 21
    You of corse dont have to eat all the calories it saids! You should try to eat the calories it saids without excersise. Dont eat back the calories you burned in the gym!!! So lets say it saids to eat 1400 cals and then you burn 500 cals in the gym. Just eat the 1400cals, dont eat your calories back. And dont stress about not eating enough, just do whats natural.
  • MegWilbe
    MegWilbe Posts: 56 Member
    Thats how I felt too!~ Then someone explained it better. When you set up your goal and are given your calories its with a deficit. So lets say it takes me 2400 calories to maintain my current wait, then I would need to eat 1400 calories per day to use 2lbs per week. Thats 1000 calorie deficit per day and 7000 per week. When you exercise you add to that deficit. 2lbs per week is the max suggested weight loss per week. So exercising builds muscle and burns fat but with a already high deficit you dont want to go to far over, so its added back to your calorie intake. I hope I made sense.
  • pamays
    pamays Posts: 20
    This is what I get on my home page... so I should have stopped eating at the 1230 calories... sorry I want to make sure I am doing this thing correct... I am getting mixed up because it tells me 466 calories remaining..thanks so much for all of your help

    466

    Calories Remaining



    Goal 1230 Food 1321 Exercise 557 = Net 764
  • STARBRITEISHERE
    STARBRITEISHERE Posts: 3
    Your homepage is telling you at the beginning of the day you have 1230 calories available to eat to hit the weight loss goal you have set in your settings.....
    The food number is how many calories you have recorded consuming that day.....
    The exercise is how many calories you have recorded burning that day......

    Here's the formula:

    Since beginning calories already account for your set amount of weight loss either 0, 1, or 2 pounds a week.

    1321-1200= over eaten goal by 121 calories.....
    121-557= 466 remaining daily calories to consume and still hit the weight goal set in MFP settings on your account
  • LoganAnthony6
    LoganAnthony6 Posts: 164
    If I understand this correctly, and I believe I do, this is the simple version. I myself get 1850 calories a day before excercise. My goal is to lose 2lbs a week. So if I eat 1850 calories a day as it suggests, I will lose my 2lbs a week. On a regular, day-to-day basis I burn anywhere between 300-500 calories through excercise.. You can eat those additional 300-500, if you choose, but it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary.
  • JaeDaKing
    JaeDaKing Posts: 50 Member
    I find this very interesting because I have consistently consumed roughly 800 calories a day or less. I don't get hungry because I eat 6 times a day. I wake up to breakfast (8am), snack(10am), lunch(12pm), snack (2pm), Dinner (4pm), Snack (6pm). Times vary when I wake up earlier/later but I try to eat every 2 hours and if its past 6pm I just snack (Fruits and vegetables with water but just enough to fill me back up. I also don't exercise. I am not sure how healthy this is but it has been working.
  • LoganAnthony6
    LoganAnthony6 Posts: 164
    @JaeDaKing Hey man. I was in the same boat as you before I started on the site here, mostly because most sites were telling me my BMR was anywhere from 2500-5000 calories a day, which is rediculous if you ask me. I did some research and you really shouldn't go under 1200 calories a day, because anything under that can really become a health problem. Again, I was right there with you, consuming about 1000 a day and eating every 2 1/2 hours and not feeling hungry, but just to be safe, I throw in a few extra snacks to at the VERY least push it to the 1200 calorie marker
  • JaeDaKing
    JaeDaKing Posts: 50 Member
    @JaeDaKing Hey man. I was in the same boat as you before I started on the site here, mostly because most sites were telling me my BMR was anywhere from 2500-5000 calories a day, which is rediculous if you ask me. I did some research and you really shouldn't go under 1200 calories a day, because anything under that can really become a health problem. Again, I was right there with you, consuming about 1000 a day and eating every 2 1/2 hours and not feeling hungry, but just to be safe, I throw in a few extra snacks to at the VERY least push it to the 1200 calorie marker

    Indeed. I have never counted calories until I was injured in the army and got out. I was such a busy man that anything I would eat would get toasted by my metabolism... now here I am! lol. Thanks for the advise.
  • LoganAnthony6
    LoganAnthony6 Posts: 164


    Indeed. I have never counted calories until I was injured in the army and got out. I was such a busy man that anything I would eat would get toasted by my metabolism... now here I am! lol. Thanks for the advise.

    Yeah, must be tough with the whole army thing. Glad to have been of any assistance though. :)

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