My daily summary ..HELP!

you burnt more calories in exercise than what you ate today

Well said, I didn't even know where to start

What i do is log in my meals through the day! Even when i exercise i wait til my food log is done, so that i know that i have met my food goal or hopefully under my goal for the day! then i put my exercise n to see how many calories i burned for the day, see how much calories have been cancled out. I hope this makes since. Im pretty new & it took me a few days to figure out what it was doin.

ok, I'm trying to understand this....bear with me, I'm a newbie in every sense of the word. lol
After logging all my foods and exercise it says this:

Calories Carbs Fat Protein
Totals 1136 147 36 60
Your Daily Goal 2595 356 86 97
Remaining 1459 209 50 37

My Daily summary says this:

Calories Remaining:1459
Goal:1200


Food: 1136
Exercise: -1395
Net: -256

If my remaining states i have 1459 calories to "eat" if i wanted why is my net-256??
if 3500= 1lb I'm trying to calculate how many calories I didn't use to match up with the weight (i'm weird, yes)
So, if I don't put anything else in my mouth tonight, is it 1459 or 256??? * sigh Does this even make sense??
Thanks in advance.

You ate 1136 cals
You exercised and burned 1459 calories doing that exercise.
Your base goal was 1200 before you exercised.

THEREFORE:

By adding your base calories of (1200 + your exercise cals 1459) you are now given 2659 cals you need to eat today.

Since you only ate (minus) 1136 so far, that leaves 1395 calories LEFT to eat.

Base (1200+1459) - 1136 = 1395

Just eat until you have no calories left at the bottom on your Food Diary.


This is confusing to a lot of peeps.

So, if I don't put anything else in my mouth tonight, is it 1459 or 256??? * sigh Does this even make sense??
Thanks in advance.

If you don't put anything else in your mouth tonight, it is not 1459 or 256, it is minus 256. Your Net Calories is equal to your total calories consumed minus the calories that you burned through exercise and it also a number that you want to be at least 1200 or you run the risk of derailing your weight loss.

.....No, she is at MINUS 256!! It should be at 1200.

That means she exercised into the negative!!! Really really bad.

That is what I said.

.....No, she is at MINUS 256!! It should be at 1200.

That means she exercised into the negative!!! Really really bad.

That is what I said.

That is what you said AFTER you edited!!

I didn't edit anything. It would say I did on my posts if I did.

MyFitnessPal calculates your deficit (the number of calories you need to cut from your maintenance calories in order to lose weight) into your daily goal for you. When you eat, you are slowly working towards that goal of 1,200 calories throughout the day. BUT if you eat 1,200 calories and then exercise and burn 1,400 calories, that takes 1,400 OFF what you have eaten today, meaning that the calories left to fuel your body is actually at NEGATIVE 200 calories! You want your NET to be 1,200.

I'm assuming you have your goal set to lose 2 pounds per week. MFP probably assumes that to maintain your weight you need to eat about 2,200 calories. Your goal for each day is 1,000 less than maintenance, 7,000 less for the week. Thus 7,000 calories divided by 3,500 calories (the amount you need to cut to lose one pound) means you will lose 2 pounds a week!

Just make sure that net number gets up around 1,200. You will feel better and you will lose weight!

ok, I'm trying to understand this....bear with me, I'm a newbie in every sense of the word. lol
After logging all my foods and exercise it says this:

Calories Carbs Fat Protein
Totals 1136 147 36 60
Your Daily Goal 2595 356 86 97
Remaining 1459 209 50 37

My Daily summary says this:

Calories Remaining:1459
Goal:1200
Food: 1136
Exercise: -1395
Net: -256

If my remaining states i have 1459 calories to "eat" if i wanted why is my net-256??
if 3500= 1lb I'm trying to calculate how many calories I didn't use to match up with the weight (i'm weird, yes)
So, if I don't put anything else in my mouth tonight, is it 1459 or 256??? * sigh Does this even make sense??
Thanks in advance.

I read your question again and thought I would actually answer it. You are under your goal by 1459, but you deficit is already calculated in for the day. So today you are probably at around a 2459 calorie deficit, which probably isn't very good for you! But that wasn't your question, was it??? :laugh:

Try avocado, nuts, or a protein shake. Also, try to plan ahead, know how many calories you are going to burn for the day, and plan your meals accordingly. That way you can spread all of your calories out throughout the day and not be stuck with a bunch at the end of the day.

lol.. so if say the calories I'm suppose to eat according to MFP says 1000 for the day and I burn off 1500...I'm suppose to eat 2500 for the day??? now back in the day, eating some cake, twinkies and stuff could get me there but I don't know about now... I'm full as it is withe the 1100 i ate today! Oh geez! this is going to be a loooong journey!:sad:

Maybe you can consider not doing 1400 calories worth of exercise if eating that many calories is too tough for you to do. Try dropping down to 500 calories of exercise. Then you wont have to eat back so many calories to get to your daily goal. It almost seems kind of excessive really.

Definitely this. I exercise about 200 calories worth a day because I know I can't eat back much more than that. A personal heart rate monitor (HRM) can help you count your calories burned accurately.

Careful about trusting the number of calories that MFP says you burned. It way over-estimates your burn. A lot of people don't eat back all of their exercise calories for that reason.

Good luck

I agree. I would definitely get a Heart Rate Monitor with calorie counting so you can know if you are really burning that many!

Example:

1100 CALORIES REMAINING
Goal Food Exercise = Net
1200 2200 - 2100 100

Food (2200) minus Exercise (2100) = Net Calories (100) left over to meet daily Goal (1200)

Thus daily Goal (1200) minus Net Calories (100) = Calories Remaining (1100) to be eaten for the day and still hit daily Goal (1200)

2200 - 2100 = 100
1200 - 100 = 1100