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    net calories

    Posts: 15 Member
    edited February 3 in Health and Weight Loss
    Hi-new to this and eating all the extra calories from working out seems like a lot. have you been successful in eating all your net calories and losing weight?

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    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      yep!
    • Posts: 134 Member
      Never eat my exercise calories- they're an added bonus for my calorie deficit and help me lose weight more quickly. Trick is to consume calories less than you need so your body has to burn fat.. and log it all to keep check x
    • Posts: 118 Member
      Not for me; if I ate them all I didn't lose, so now I only eat half of them max.

      MFP is known to over-calculate exercise calories, so maybe that's what happened with me when I ate them all.
    • Posts: 12,344 Member
      Working so far!
    • Posts: 9,248 Member
      In theory eating back your exercise calories works but it assumes that:

      1) The measurement of your caloric intake is accurate (even nutritional data on food labels may be + or - 20% for some products)

      2) The measurement of your caloric expenditure is accurate (many cardio machines and MFP tend to be "generous" when estimating calories burned during exercise, even most HRMs will report gross calories burned rather than just those attributed to exercise - net - and the difference can be significant)
    • Posts: 1,806 Member
      I used to eat them all and lost plenty of weight. I don't bother logging them now because of how much everyone says MFP overestimates, but if I do exercise I don't mind going a bit over that day.
    • Posts: 15 Member
      ok thank you so much, I have read so many different things-that its becoming confusing!

      Has anyone just done TDEE calories and lost weight?
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