Question about calories/exercise

kraftylady891
kraftylady891 Posts: 33 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Do you record your exercise and eat the added calories? If so is it still working for you?

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  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    Yes and yes
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Assuming you set your activity level on MFP at sedentary then yes, eat back your exercise calories (MFP has already calculated a deficit). You do need, however, to be careful with the estimates of calories expended during exercise, MFP and some cardio machines tend to be somewhat generous.
  • hmoffatt
    hmoffatt Posts: 51
    I cycled 200km on Sunday (nearly 10 hours). My bike computer estimates I used about 5,000 calories. I ate a couple of thousand extra at most - how on earth would I eat 5000 ?!

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