So I haven't been "exercising" but I have just been wearing my FitBit to count daily steps. I also track my food intake with MFP. I have been struggling a little to understand burning calories and eating them back. I've come to understand it this much - MFP sets you at a deficent for your daily activity. MFP along with FitBit then give you calories to eat back after you've met your activity level for the day. By eating back those daily calories daily you will have eaten a net calorie goal for the day, and as I've been told, the net calories count. However, I had a question about my Progress report from FitBit. There is a section for calories in vs calories out in the progress report. My report gives the cals burned, the cals eaten and what my plan deficit is. Then under calories in vs out there is a number with a - in front of it. What does that mean exactly? When I subtract cals eaten from cals burned it is a larger number than the one listed as the negative number on calories in vs calories out.
Thanks in advance!