exercise cals

hi there, i try not to eat back my calories. But sometimes i do espcially at the weekend. He has to make sure that he is buring more than he is consuming. Obviously when he entred his details he put how much weight he wanted to lose each week (mine is 1lb) and how much exercise he will be doing each week, and how active he is with his job, and this is how myfitness pal judge how many calories to consum. If he put in that he is going to exercise like 5 times plus a week i would recommened not to eat back calories, as thats why 1800 calories he has to consum. But we all have days when we go over our calories. I hope this has helped a little. Feel free to add me if you need any more advise i log daily. Good luck x

I eat back some of my exercise calories, if not my body goes into starvation mode and I end up putting weight on

I think that the program is designed to let you eat extra when you have extra activity. Of course this will not be accurate if you are not accurate on you calorie intake record, or if your basic activity level is less than you selected when you calculated your BMR, or if you are over estimating your activity calorie burn. It is a balancing act to end up eating 500-1000 calories under what you burn but not going so far under that you burn muscle instead of fat. If you are losing weight and feeling like you have good energy then you are probably close to being in the fat burn window.

hi there, i try not to eat back my calories. But sometimes i do espcially at the weekend. He has to make sure that he is buring more than he is consuming. Obviously when he entred his details he put how much weight he wanted to lose each week (mine is 1lb) and how much exercise he will be doing each week, and how active he is with his job, and this is how myfitness pal judge how many calories to consum. If he put in that he is going to exercise like 5 times plus a week i would recommened not to eat back calories, as thats why 1800 calories he has to consum. But we all have days when we go over our calories. I hope this has helped a little. Feel free to add me if you need any more advise i log daily. Good luck x

This is incorrect. MFP does NOT account for exercise until you enter it in your exercise diary (unless you customize your settings). Your calorie goal is only based on your daily activity WITHOUT exercise (again, unless you customize). The goal you enter for your exercise is simply something to remind you of that goal - it does not change your initial calorie goal (try going in and changing your exercise goal, it does not affect the calories). So, assuming your husband set up MFP as intended and has not customized - YES, eat exercise calories back, at least 50%.

hi there, i try not to eat back my calories. But sometimes i do espcially at the weekend. He has to make sure that he is buring more than he is consuming. Obviously when he entred his details he put how much weight he wanted to lose each week (mine is 1lb) and how much exercise he will be doing each week, and how active he is with his job, and this is how myfitness pal judge how many calories to consum. If he put in that he is going to exercise like 5 times plus a week i would recommened not to eat back calories, as thats why 1800 calories he has to consum. But we all have days when we go over our calories. I hope this has helped a little. Feel free to add me if you need any more advise i log daily. Good luck x

This is incorrect. MFP does NOT account for exercise until you enter it in your exercise diary (unless you customize your settings). Your calorie goal is only based on your daily activity WITHOUT exercise (again, unless you customize). The goal you enter for your exercise is simply something to remind you of that goal - it does not change your initial calorie goal (try going in and changing your exercise goal, it does not affect the calories). So, assuming your husband set up MFP as intended and has not customized - YES, eat exercise calories back, at least 50%.

You are right...MFP gives you the amount of calories you should eat WITHOUT exercising...That means if you are giving 1200 calories you can eat that amount WITHOUT exercise and still lose weight...If you exercise and burn 700 calories you can eat that plus the 1200 they give you and still lose weight...However I never eat up all my exercise calories or at least try not too as I want to lose weight at a faster rate...