Net calories or total calories??

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chark32013
chark32013 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
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I'm really confused, should I be eating more calories according to being under net calories, or less to be under my total calorie goal?

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    you ate a bit more than your total calories intake goal, but didn't eat anything like enough to compensate for the exercise you logged hence your net calories are low.
  • chark32013
    chark32013 Posts: 5 Member
    Thanks for the reply, so should I eat more and make up those exercise calories? Just don't want to gain any weight haha
  • Pinnacle_IAO
    Pinnacle_IAO Posts: 608 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    you ate a bit more than your total calories intake goal, but didn't eat anything like enough to compensate for the exercise you logged hence your net calories are low.
    YEP!


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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    chark32013 wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply, so should I eat more and make up those exercise calories? Just don't want to gain any weight haha

    Within reason, the idea of logging the exercise is to keep the same loss rate whether you exercise or not. If you eat all of the logged calories and the estimates are a bit high you'll reduce your loss rate, so some people opt to eat half of the extra calories, or 2/3 etc etc as a precaution.
  • chark32013
    chark32013 Posts: 5 Member
    Well I'm training for a half marathon so I run quite a lot and have a running watch and that says that I usually burn between 3-700 calories a run. I also do spinning and weight training but I just use mfp calculations even though I know they aren't too accurate.
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  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    chark32013 wrote: »
    Well I'm training for a half marathon so I run quite a lot and have a running watch and that says that I usually burn between 3-700 calories a run. I also do spinning and weight training but I just use mfp calculations even though I know they aren't too accurate.

    The estimate my running watch gives me tends to be a bit higher than what my Fitbit reports for the same amount of time and distance. Eating back my entire adjustment from my Fitbit was spot on for when I was losing weight, so I trust that estimate 100%.

    If you're going to eat back all the calories, just keep an eye on your weight and see if you need to eat back fewer. Good luck with your training!

    ~Lyssa
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,149 Member
    Eat back half the exercise calories and you should be pretty safe.
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