Calorie intake

smithcynde1
smithcynde1 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss

I'm eating enough calories but burning them off with exercise how important is it that the more I burn need to recapture.

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    What are you talking about? I'm sorry I don't get it

    MFP gives you a goal of calories excluding exercise - eat those

    when you exercise eat back 50% of the calories from the MFP database
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    if you follow MFP calorie guidelines you need to eat back at least a portion of exercise cals.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    You should aim for a calorie deficit of 500 to 1000 calories per day. If you are burning enough through exercise that your calorie deficit is more than that, you should eat enough calories to bring your calorie deficit back in line.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,149 Member
    MFP is designed to eat back exercise calories, as your deficit is already built in. Most eat a portion back, to accommodate miscalculations in both logging and overestimation of burns. Remember, the winner gets to eat the most and still lose.
  • ruggedshutter
    ruggedshutter Posts: 389 Member
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    You should aim for a calorie deficit of 500 to 1000 calories per day. If you are burning enough through exercise that your calorie deficit is more than that, you should eat enough calories to bring your calorie deficit back in line.

    Sometimes I swear you are replying to a completely different thread
  • terbusha
    terbusha Posts: 1,483 Member
    Personally, I don't eat back calorie that I burn during exercise. I have a set calorie goal that lets me make good progress towards my fitness goal, i.e. losing weight. I shoot to lose ~1-2 lbs/week. The nice thing about setting your calorie goal to your fitness goal is that it takes into account the calories that you burn during exercise without you having to know what you are actually burning.
  • smithcynde1
    smithcynde1 Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you Terbusha for understanding my post yes this is extremely helpful
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