Confused about how myfitnesspal works...help please!

nitap8
nitap8 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so I just wanted to get something straight. Myfitnesspal tells me to eat 1300 calories a day. I work out twice a day. Let's say I eat 1300 calories, I work out and burn 500 calories. I would have to eat another 500 calories to make up for the calories I burned, correct???:smile:

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  • Ploogy
    Ploogy Posts: 115 Member
    yup
  • camper2022
    camper2022 Posts: 80 Member
    Most definately! You earned them back and that's how this wonderful program work....work hard & reward yourself :)
  • LinDiSm26262
    LinDiSm26262 Posts: 234 Member
    I was told when I set up my calories on MFP to only say that I wanted to lose one pound a week instead of two pounds a week because MFP doesn't calculate the calories correctly when you put in two because the calories are too low. (I was eating 1200 calories but couldn't lose weight and was blaming it on my thyroid problems).

    Once I made the change the calories were upped to 1430. I was also told to eat back at least half of my exercise calories. I began eating the higher calories and some days I eat at least half the calories I earn from exercise. I gained 7 pounds the first two weeks, which was nerve wracking, but was told I would gain some. At end of the third week I lost 3 pounds and this week, so far, I have lost 1 pound. I weigh every Sunday. I guess the reason I gained is that my body had to know that I wasn't going to starve it in order to begin dropping the weight.

    I'm just sharing with you what is happening to me...not that I'm expecting you to follow my example. I don't know that much about weight loss but decided I had to at least try to see if upping my calories would work for me.

    I suggest reading the Success posts and see how other people have lost and the calories they ate each day.

    Good luck!
  • Katetw
    Katetw Posts: 188 Member
    Okay so I just wanted to get something straight. Myfitnesspal tells me to eat 1300 calories a day. I work out twice a day. Let's say I eat 1300 calories, I work out and burn 500 calories. I would have to eat another 500 calories to make up for the calories I burned, correct???:smile:

    this depends on how you put in your activity level. If you put in that you exercise, then it built that in, and you should not eat them back. If you did not include that exercise in your activity level, then yes, you should put in the exercise. You should only eat back the calories if you are hungry, don't force yourself to eat them, but feel free to do so.

    Just be careful, if you take the cal # off a machine at the gym those are rough estimates and often over.

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