Calories????

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Kalbright79
Kalbright79 Posts: 65
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What should my net calories equal?? So after all that I have eaten and all the calories I lose during exercise what should my number be? Should it be positive or negative if I want to lose weight?

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  • cockette
    cockette Posts: 2
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    Hi there, it should be positive you dont want to go into the negative, good luck :)
  • nkster781
    nkster781 Posts: 235 Member
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    You really don't want to have less than 1200 net calories
  • Kalbright79
    Kalbright79 Posts: 65
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    How positive should it be?
  • Kalbright79
    Kalbright79 Posts: 65
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    Ooops - just now saw your post. Thank you!
  • PrfctGdess
    PrfctGdess Posts: 257
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    MFP will add calories to what you should eat when you exercise. There is tons of debate about eating your exercise calories, but basically, if you eat what it tells you to eat you'll lose weight. Shoot for your final number at the end of the day to be positive (green), but close to zero. As you get further into this, you'll get a feel for if you can leave more "extra" and still lose weight. Good luck!
  • SuperJack745
    SuperJack745 Posts: 1
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    It should meet your daily requirement. So if your daily requirement is say 1200. You wanna meet 1200. If you ate 1600 hundred calories but at the end of the day lost 400 through exercise you would end up with 1200 calories which is your daily goal - you would be right where you wanna be. Make sense?
  • Kalbright79
    Kalbright79 Posts: 65
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    Thank you - it does make sense now! :)

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