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Calorie intake issue

aarnavg1
aarnavg1 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I am a bit confused about calorie intake. My goal is to take 2600 calories a day but what I don't understand is that I burn around 600 calories in my workout, so should I take 3200 calories a day as I have burned 600 in the workout or should I take 2600 calories only no matter how many I burned while working out? Kindly suggest?

Thanks!

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  • VoiceWithNoValue
    VoiceWithNoValue Posts: 58 Member
    Did you use a heart rate monitor to monitor your exercise calories? Or did you go by what MFP said? And what is your goal(lose weight, maintain)?
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    I would do 1/2....ie: 2600+300=2900. Calories burned are almost always overestimated.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Ideally you should eat 3200, but calorie burns are often overestimated. Depending on your method of measuring how much you burned, it's best to only eat back about 50% of them, so 2900 for the day.
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