Exercise added on!!?

279270
279270 Posts: 62 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi what are members thoughts on eating back your exercise calories?
Are MFP giving you your daily calories for Weight loss without eating back exercise cals for instance if the say I should consume 1700 to lose weight is that it ?? Or do I then add on my 300 cals from exercise to make my daily calories 2000?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Ideally you would eat 2000. MFP gives you your deficit without exercise included, so you should be eating those calories back to keep the deficit consistent and fuel your body. However, exercise calories are often overstated, so many users only eat a portion (50-75%) of them back.
  • 279270
    279270 Posts: 62 Member
    Thank you good advice
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    279270 wrote: »
    Hi what are members thoughts on eating back your exercise calories?
    Are MFP giving you your daily calories for Weight loss without eating back exercise cals for instance if the say I should consume 1700 to lose weight is that it ?? Or do I then add on my 300 cals from exercise to make my daily calories 2000?

    Why don't you want to eat them back? Exercise cals taste the best!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    MFP uses the NEAT method, and as such exercise calories are supposed to be eaten back. However, many consider the burns to be inflated and only eat a percentage, such as 50%, back.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1

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