WTH!!

...is this an April Fool's joke? :ohwell:

I don't get it! this make no sense....I hear people say your supposed to eat LESS calories then you EXERCISE...so for example my calorie goal is 1200. I should work out at the gym so i can burn MORE then 1200 calories a day? it take me 45 minutes just to burn 400 calorie on the treadmill. Does this making sense to ANYONE???

you have the saying mixed up.

you are supposed to eat less than you burn.

and that is including what you normally burn throughout the course of the day. that is why you need to look up and find you TDEE (total daily energy expenditure).

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I don't get it! this make no sense....I hear people say your supposed to eat LESS calories then you EXERCISE...so for example my calorie goal is 1200. I should work out at the gym so i can burn MORE then 1200 calories a day? it take me 45 minutes just to burn 400 calorie on the treadmill. Does this making sense to ANYONE???

I think what people say/mean is that you need to eat fewer calories than you *burn*. Calories burned go beyond calories expended during structured exercise--otherwise, if you didn't work out, you wouldn't need to eat at all! Which of course isn't the case.

Example: My basal metabolic rate is what I would expend if I were comatose. Let's say it's 1380 calories.
If I'm sedentary--spend the majority of my day sitting around--my total daily energy expenditure is probably around 1656.
If I exercise and burn 400 calories, (which for me would be probably 90 minutes of exercise), my total energy expenditure for that day was 2056 calories. To maintain my current weight, I need to eat 2056 calories. For weight loss at the rate of .5lb/week, I would subtract 250 calories from my energy expenditure and eat that. So on a non-exercise day, I would need to eat 1406 calories. On an exercise day of 400 calories burned, I would need to eat 1806 calories.

I think you just misinterpreted someone saying you should eat below your TDEE to lose weight, which is true.

TDEE or total daily energy expenditure is the total amount of calories your body burns from both metabolic rate and activity including exercise. If your BMR (basal metabolic rate) is 1400 and your just normal walking around day to day activity is 400 and you exercise for another 400 then your TDEE would be 2200. What the person was saying is in that case you should eat below 2200 and the amount you should eat below is half your exercise or activity callories which would be 800 for the day and half is 400 so it would mean you should eat 1800 in that example which sounds about right.

At least I assume that is what they meant because yeah what you said is dead wrong and not what you should do at all.

I don't get it! this make no sense....I hear people say your supposed to eat LESS calories then you EXERCISE...so for example my calorie goal is 1200. I should work out at the gym so i can burn MORE then 1200 calories a day? it take me 45 minutes just to burn 400 calorie on the treadmill. Does this making sense to ANYONE???

The word "exercise" is totally wrong. What I hope they mean is eat less than you "burn".....big difference

Your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is what you burn everyday. This consists of BMR (basal metabolic rate) .....calories your body would use if you stayed in bed 24 hours + activity level (ie: sedentary is lowest....almost no one stays in bed al day) + exercise.

The TOTAL of those 3 things are what you need to eat less than.

Anything less than TDEE is a deficit. Eating less is the easiest way because you can take in lots of calories quickly. Exercise can also help with deficit, but, exercise has extra health benefits too. MFP as designed gives you a calorie deficit BEFORE any exercise....because some people can't/won't exercise....they still lose weight. If you do exercise (and log it) MFP adds those calories back in.....it simply gets you back to your original deficit and helps you maintain lean muscle mass.

I'm confused too.



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You don't have to "burn" off every single calorie you take in with exercise. To boot, your MFP calorie goal already includes your weight loss deficit without any exercise whatsoever...that 1200 calorie goal is NOT maintenance; that would be ridiculous.

You "burn" calories 24/7...the vast majority of your calorie requirements come from you just being alive and doing absolutely nothing at all...for me, that's about 1800 calories...I burn about 1800 calories if I were to do nothing but sleep all day long. Then I have my day to day stuff like crawling out of bed, driving to work, cleaning, cooking, etc. This is how MFP arrives at your calorie goal...it determines as per your inputs and stats what your theoretical NON EXERCISE maintenance number would be as per statistical averages and then takes a cut from that number for you to lose weight. 1200 is the lowest and most aggressive approach. If you do exercise you're supposed to eat a portion of those calories back (adjusted for some estimation error) because you don't need to create a bigger deficit with exercise...it's all built in and larger and larger deficits can be counter productive to your fitness, nutrition, and health goals.