New guy understanding Calories needed. Please Help!!!

Eat 50-75% of exercise calories.

Exercise is normally over estimated while food is under estimated.

Eating exercise calories is to force your deficit to be similar day after day so you don't lose too fast.

What exercise are you doing to burn 1000 calories?

dhimaan wrote: »

If you want to lose 2 lb per week then 2500 would be the number. Burning 1000 calories is pretty intense I don't what you are doing in the gym.

So 2500 cals that is with a 1000 cal deficit right? Since he wants to lose 2 pounds.

Assuming his exercise burns are accurate for a moment

That would make it 2500 cals but with 1000 deficit plus another 1000 exercise making it a potential loss of 4 pounds right? Too high a loss.

That's why you eat the exercise calories back at least partially.

That would equal losing a pound a day. ...I think you need to check your settings! ☺

SpiritOfTheFox wrote: »

dhimaan wrote: »

If you want to lose 2 lb per week then 2500 would be the number. Burning 1000 calories is pretty intense I don't what you are doing in the gym.

Im following my Fitbit it's saying I burn 3,500~ calories throughout the day

The 2580 sounds like your total TDEE according to MFP, not the amount you'd be allowed to eat. Did you tell MFP you wanted to lose 2lb/day? A sedentary 19 year old of your weight has a TDEE of about 2570, so they'd need to eat 1570 to lose weight; MFP should be recommending something in the 1500-1800 kcal range for you if you have put your info in properly.

Osric

Yes, your exercise calories get added to your total allowance - if you burn more, you need to eat more.

As others have said, it is sometimes best not to eat right up to the total if you've been burning a lot of calories, as these systems often overestimate the calories burned, so if you eat all the way up to that total, you may be unwittingly going over your target. Heavy exercise day = leave some calories in hand.

On the other hand, if you have not done much exercise that day, then you should aim to eat right up to your allowance to make sure you're getting enough.

I agree with others that 1000 extra calories through exercise is pretty extreme. What kind of exercise are you doing?

Also 3500 calories a day to maintain weight seems very high - either you'd have to be very heavy just now, or doing a very demanding manual job, to require that much energy just to maintain. If neither of those are true, I think you should re-check those numbers.

SpiritOfTheFox wrote: »

No for me to maintain my weight I would have to eat 3,500 calories a day with out working out. So the 2,500 calories is with a 1000 calorie deficit. Which will lead me to lose 2lbs a week acorrding to MFP

You've gotten it to double count your exercise somehow. If you know you need to eat 2500 to lose 2lb/week, but MFP says you need to eat 2500+1000, it means that MFP thinks 3500 is 1,000 over your regular burn and is trying to add on the exercise calories for you.

Just ignore it and eat 2500 or less. I would bet money that even at 2500 calories logged, you'll find you lose less than 2lb/week.

Osric

You aren't logging your exercise on MFP, too, are you? If you have your Fitbit synced to your MFP account, you don't log exercise on MFP.

Anyway, if you burn 3500 calories per day and eat 2500, that amounts to a loss of approximately 2lbs per week. If 2lbs per week loss is your goal, eat 1000 calories less than your Fitbit says you burned.

I think you're fine. I'm 5'3" and I went from 139 to 123 in the past two months. At first I was doing a loss of two pounds per week but then I slowed it down to half of a pound per week. I'm allowed to eat 1310 calories per day but often earn 300 to 700 extra calories from my Charge HR due to my movement throughout the day. I exercise most days of the week but nothing too hardcore. I have my levels set to sedentary, so I start my day with a negative amount of calories burned by the fitbit adjustment. So these days I've been eating anywhere from 1600 to 2000 calories per day depending on what I earn that day from fitbit. I thought it was too much and I'd surely gain weight, but when I stepped on the scale this morning I weighed 121.8 pounds. I was shocked. So if you want to lose a bit faster, eat 50% to 75% of your earned calories back, but don't be afraid to eat a bit more back when you need it.