Exercise and calories

kdanderson05
kdanderson05 Posts: 147
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Okay I am confused by the whole you can eat extra calories since you worked out today, or something like that. At the bottom of my food entry for today it say you can consume 465 extra calories for the day. Will someone please explain to me, if it healthy to eat those calories, or if I should just leave them alone?

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  • kdanderson05
    kdanderson05 Posts: 147
    Okay I am confused by the whole you can eat extra calories since you worked out today, or something like that. At the bottom of my food entry for today it say you can consume 465 extra calories for the day. Will someone please explain to me, if it healthy to eat those calories, or if I should just leave them alone?
  • michlingle
    michlingle Posts: 797 Member
    look for newbie posts...go to message boards and search newbie and yes you eat them! There's a ton of information about this common question-I couldn't believe it either when I started!
  • HustleRose
    HustleRose Posts: 88
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/6556-the-answers-to-the-questions

    This should tell you all you need to know.

    You should check out some of the other posts for newbies, at the top under general discussion, they're full of answers to questions like this, great information and tips.
  • ErinRNinMaine
    ErinRNinMaine Posts: 460 Member
    When MFP figures out your original daily caloric needs, they figure in a deficit. So you personally may need 2000 calories/day just to survive, but in order to lose weight you would need to eat like 700 calories less. A good analogy I saw was that your car can only go so many miles on a tank of gas. If you intend of driving it farther, you need more fuel. Same with your body. You can really only eat so few calories before your body starts hanging onto fat for fuel. If you deprive yourself further by eating less food, you can sabotage your weight loss efforts. Make sense?

    Good luck in your journey! :flowerforyou:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    When MFP figures out your original daily caloric needs, they figure in a deficit. So you personally may need 2000 calories/day just to survive, but in order to lose weight you would need to eat like 700 calories less. A good analogy I saw was that your car can only go so many miles on a tank of gas. If you intend of driving it farther, you need more fuel. Same with your body. You can really only eat so few calories before your body starts hanging onto fat for fuel. If you deprive yourself further by eating less food, you can sabotage your weight loss efforts. Make sense?

    Good luck in your journey! :flowerforyou:

    Well said. :flowerforyou:
  • kdanderson05
    kdanderson05 Posts: 147
    So since i have 465 calories from exercising, and i still have 200 calories remaining for the day, I can eat some more stuff for the night? But what if I'm allowed to eat 1800 calories/day, and I now have to eat around 3-400 more, is it okay if it says that I went over my calorie range? Yes I am not the best person to comprehend things at time, and I'm going to check out that link more.....I liked what i saw just by browsing it
  • pinktoque
    pinktoque Posts: 340 Member
    So since i have 465 calories from exercising, and i still have 200 calories remaining for the day, I can eat some more stuff for the night? But what if I'm allowed to eat 1800 calories/day, and I now have to eat around 3-400 more, is it okay if it says that I went over my calorie range? Yes I am not the best person to comprehend things at time, and I'm going to check out that link more.....I liked what i saw just by browsing it

    If you notice at the start of the day before you add exercise in, your calories at the bottom for the day should read 1800 or whatever. Then when you add exercise, that number will automatically adjust and go up the 465 calories you exercised off -- so it *should* say 2265 is your limit for the day, so by eating back those 465 calories you won't show as "going over" on your food diary for today :)
  • kdanderson05
    kdanderson05 Posts: 147
    Thank you very much!!!! I know understand it!
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