Should I use all calories earned from exercise?

curlyblue21
curlyblue21 Posts: 78 Member
edited November 13 in Health and Weight Loss
hi, I still have about four stone to loose have lost a stone so far! I set calories to 1200 is this too low as now my weight loss has slowed down... Should I use calories that I earn through exercise or not?

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Yes you should ..that's how MFP works

    But the advice is to only eat back 50-75% of what gym machines or MFP database gives you as they overestimate for the majority

    Also don't log things that are normal life like housework
  • curlyblue21
    curlyblue21 Posts: 78 Member
    All I do is walking, I try to do about 10,000 steps a day. I did my BMR and it says to have 1,400 calories a day... I'm really confused! perhaps if I use up extras then my weight loss will start again, I have only lost a pound in two weeks and that is not normal for me, worried I'm not eating enough but 1,200 is more than enough if I choose healthy foods! Any ideas?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Hormones? Sodium? All affect water weight

    Weight loss isn't a straight line ...and eating more to lose weight is nonsensical, look at your logging instead ...are you weighing and logging everything every day?

    For 10k steps I eat back about 350 calories, my settings are sedentary and I have a fitbit
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Congratulations on losing a stone! You're eating far too little if you still have four stone to lose, though. I recommend using MFP's default setting set to lose 1lb a week. Make your activity level Lightly Active and don't add extra calories for walking. It will allocate you far more calories and you'll still lose weight if you track carefully. If you build up to more strenuous exercise, then start adding exercise tracking separately. After doing that for two weeks, only then think about adjusting your intake up or down. Good luck!
  • curlyblue21
    curlyblue21 Posts: 78 Member
    Ok will do that, I didn't realise this, so shall I turn off counting steps? Thanks BerryH
  • curlyblue21
    curlyblue21 Posts: 78 Member
    So it's saying 1,660... Seems like a lot to me but will give it ago for two weeks! And I will log when I use my exercise bike, so will not need to use earned calories then surely?
  • karenrich77
    karenrich77 Posts: 292 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Hormones? Sodium? All affect water weight

    Weight loss isn't a straight line ...and eating more to lose weight is nonsensical, look at your logging instead ...are you weighing and logging everything every day?

    For 10k steps I eat back about 350 calories, my settings are sedentary and I have a fitbit

    Sounds nonsensical doesn't it. Yet I log every scrap of food that passes my lips yet I stalled. Put my calories up by 100 and lost 1.5kg 2 weeks running!
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    karenrich77 wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Hormones? Sodium? All affect water weight

    Weight loss isn't a straight line ...and eating more to lose weight is nonsensical, look at your logging instead ...are you weighing and logging everything every day?

    For 10k steps I eat back about 350 calories, my settings are sedentary and I have a fitbit

    Sounds nonsensical doesn't it. Yet I log every scrap of food that passes my lips yet I stalled. Put my calories up by 100 and lost 1.5kg 2 weeks running!

    Not causative. That's simply because weight loss is not linear. There is no scientific proof anywhere that increasing calories leads to weight loss, please prove me wrong with a proper study

    I constantly stall for 2-3 weeks then drop then stall again

    As to OP that sounds about right ...eating around 1600 calories and is the same as eating back exercise calories which was your original question. Just don't drop your walking level when you change your activity and you'll be fine
  • curlyblue21
    curlyblue21 Posts: 78 Member
    Ok great, thanks for your help!
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