HELP ME !

How do you count these calories is the big number on the home screen the calories you can eat ? do you add food and it takes away ? do you have to exercise all the calories off? what if the food dosnt have a calories sheet because it wasn't packaged. how do you count the calories from fat ?

The big # on the front page is how many calories you have remaining for the day. When you log in food, those calories will be subtracted from that # to give you your new remaining calories balance for the day. I never log in my exercise. I just focus on hitting my calorie goal and pushing hard during exercise. For food that is not packaged, I use a food scale and log in how many ounces, for example chicken.

Allan

Log your workout calories and eat them. Sometimes your body can go into starvation mode if you dont

Uhmmm, not exactly.

so i eat all the calories i burn ?

That's the intention, yes. But you don't have to. You're trying to eat at a deficit to lose weight, right? So, say, your maintenance calories ( what you'd eat to remain at your current weight ) is 2,000 per day. So, you've told MFP that you want to lose 1 lb per week, and it's set your daily calorie goal to 1,500. ( a 500 calorie per day deficit = 3500 calories per week = 1 lb ) And you burn 500 calories today, with exercise. So, your new calorie goal for today is 2,000. If you eat that 2,000 calories today, you are still at your 500 calorie deficit, that MFP set you up with.... and you are still on track to lose 1 lb per week. If you don't eat the 500 calories you burned back, you are now at a 1,000 calorie deficit for the day.

Depending on how much weight you have to lose, and your own personal circumstances, you might find that you only want to eat part of your exercise calories back. But, as the 'starvation mode' poster was trying to say..... eating too few calories is not a sensible approach to weight loss.

Ummm.... Yes you do want to eat your workout calories. If you dont eat enough then your body CAN go into starvation mode and hold on to your weight. The more calories you burn the more fuel your body needs. So yes eat your cardio calories!

There is no starvatioin mode...it's a myth...your body will burn calories regardless of if you eat or not.

I don't eat my cardio calories...I don't eat my weight lifting calories either and I lose weight every week...

Ummm.... Yes you do want to eat your workout calories. If you dont eat enough then your body CAN go into starvation mode and hold on to your weight. The more calories you burn the more fuel your body needs. So yes eat your cardio calories!

There is no starvatioin mode...it's a myth...your body will burn calories regardless of if you eat or not.

I don't eat my cardio calories...I don't eat my weight lifting calories either and I lose weight every week...

There is a starvation mode, not everyone goes into it. Its not a myth. But I guess everyone can agree to disagree.

Ummm.... Yes you do want to eat your workout calories. If you dont eat enough then your body CAN go into starvation mode and hold on to your weight. The more calories you burn the more fuel your body needs. So yes eat your cardio calories!

There is no starvatioin mode...it's a myth...your body will burn calories regardless of if you eat or not.

I don't eat my cardio calories...I don't eat my weight lifting calories either and I lose weight every week...

There is a starvation mode, not everyone goes into it. Its not a myth. But I guess everyone can agree to disagree.

According to my doctors, yes there is a starvation mode and I went there when I lost that 50 pounds in 3 months because I had no appetite, switched to water instead of soda and was biking twice a day but probably only taking in 500 calories per day and burning more than that. It's the worst possible way to diet because your body thinks it's starving so it starts storing fat cells like squirrels save nuts for the winter.