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MoNiCaMaRieV
MoNiCaMaRieV Posts: 50 Member
edited September 26 in Food and Nutrition
not sure if this is this is in the right category or not but can someone please explain what "net" means on your daily summary?

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  • azevedo782003
    azevedo782003 Posts: 7 Member
    It's the total of calorie's consumed minus calories burned. The more you excersise, the more you can eat.
  • zacherybinx
    zacherybinx Posts: 215 Member
    Basically exactly what azevedo said but obviously you want to try and eat back your calories in a healthy manner as nutrition is just as if not more important than exercising is in my opinion. So Net is what you've consumed for the day - calories burned. Calories Remaining is all you really need to worry about to start with, try and reach your goals or close to them daily.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    MFP's program gives you a caloric deficit for eating to meet your loss before you do any exercise based on your goals (0.5lb, 1 lb, 1.5 lb or 2lb a week)
    Within the program the intent is that you eat back your exercise calories to keep your deficit at the desired level. So to do that your net at the end of the day should be equal to your daily goal.
    I don't eat ALL my exercise calories because I don't trust the machine estimates completely and I haven't invested in a HRM yet.
  • clvdandj
    clvdandj Posts: 76
    Basically exactly what azevedo said but obviously you want to try and eat back your calories in a healthy manner as nutrition is just as if not more important than exercising is in my opinion. So Net is what you've consumed for the day - calories burned. Calories Remaining is all you really need to worry about to start with, try and reach your goals or close to them daily.

    i completely agree with you!
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
    It's the total of calorie's consumed minus calories burned. The more you excersise, the more you can eat.

    Not quite.

    Net calories are your calories consumed minus calories burned in exercise.

    You actually burned more than simply your exercise calories. Your regular daily calorie goal is determined by adding your BMR Calories and your Activity Level Calories and then subtracting 1000 calories for 2 lb per week weight loss, or 500 calories for 1 lb per week weight loss or 250 for .5 lb per week weight loss. You can see that on your Goals page.

    MFP aims to keep you at a consistent calorie deficit whether you exercise or not, so it recalculates and adds in your exercise calories on days you log exercise.
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