Exercise points

ag2190
ag2190 Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
Curious if people eat their exercise credits or not?

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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    edited April 2016
    Yes. MFP puts you at a deficit without exercise based on what it estimates a person with your activity level and stats will burn without exercise. Exercise increases your daily burn, so to keep your deficit from getting to large (and losing lean body mass as well as fat) you should eat some of them back. It's recommended to start with 50% and adjust up or down as needed based on your actual results over say a 4-6 wk period.

    I want to lose fat and would prefer to keep as much of my lbm as possible. My loss might be slower, but that's fine with me as long as I'm mostly losing fat.

    ~edit: I'm actually currently in recomp (just started this week). So eating to maintain while hopefully slowly losing fat and slowly gaining muscle. What I posted above though is exactly what I did while losing weight.
  • EddieP50
    EddieP50 Posts: 192 Member
    I have not been so far. But as I increase my exercise over time I will probably need to.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    No, but I didn't like the 1200 calories it had me set at each day, so I changed that to 1600. Still losing weight just fine.
  • campbell3913
    campbell3913 Posts: 64 Member
    Depends on how feel. Last Saturday hiked 10 miles and way overdid it. You bet I ate some extra. Not all, as it gave 1500 more calories but a couple hundred anyway.
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