goal calories minus burned calories question

lms32164
lms32164 Posts: 212 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am becoming more acitve as summer has arrived and try to do as much as I can while healing a bad knee. Right now my goal calories are set for 1750 a day and I have my goal set to loose 1 lb a week. I am progressing nicely. Today I have burned 484 calories between my recumbant bike and swimming. The swimming makes me more hungry so I just make wise choices and have a snack of baby carrots and hummus or something light on calories like that. Today I have eaten 1800 calories so 50 of that was taken from my burned calories from exercising. I was hoping to be about 100 under my goal calories but I have been real hungry today. Should I worry about that as long as I know the rest of my day is already journaled and accounted for in my 1750? Thanks for you advice.

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  • jujubean1992
    jujubean1992 Posts: 462 Member
    not sure what your asking... but eat your exercise cals!
  • tredig
    tredig Posts: 1
    I read once that you should follow the 50/50/50 rule when accounting for calories and exercise. You can eat 50% of the calories you burn and 50% of that should be 30 minutes before you workout and 50% 30 minutes after. This helps give your body the calories it needs to do all that work and maintain your metabolism. For example, if you burn 500 calories with exercise, you can add 250 more calories to your daily goal, 125 should be eaten before working our and 125 after. Hope this helps. You want to make sure you are accounting for the exercise so your body burns fat, not muscle...
  • 4lafz
    4lafz Posts: 1,078 Member
    I understand about swimming - I do it too. Be sure to get a big hit of protein following workouts. Eggs, greek yogurt and I have played with many fruit and vanilla protein powder shakes (lots of recipes online - just use a low cal protein powder). Really all you need is fruit you love (even frozen), 1/2 cup water or low cal juice, protein powder and ice - oh and a great blender. Very filling and yummy. Great fiber too. Good for muscle recovery and keeps you full longer.
  • juleseybaby
    juleseybaby Posts: 712 Member
    I wouldn't be too worried about being 50 calories over goal. (That is if I understood your post correctly to mean that your goal is 1750 and the NET after all food and exercise have been recorded is 1800.)

    MFP has already set up a deficit from your BMR (basal metabolic rate - or the amount of calories your body uses just to function normally) with that goal of 1750... For example: my BMR is about 1800, I set up to lose 2 pounds per week, so MFP gave me a goal of 1300. If I NET 1350 for a day - I am still 450 calories under my BMR and should still lose weight.
  • dshalbert
    dshalbert Posts: 677 Member
    Your allotted calories allowed for the day are your net calories( calories plus exercise calories burned). So with your exercise you theoretically are allowed 2,234 calories for the day.
  • brandiuntz
    brandiuntz Posts: 2,717 Member
    In general, you should eat your exercise calories. MFP is setup with its deficits so that you should eat them.

    I also believe if you're actually hungry, then you need to eat. True hunger means your body needs more fuel, especially if you've burned a fair amount of calories exercising. Just do like you're doing and eat something nutritious to satisfy your hunger.
  • lms32164
    lms32164 Posts: 212 Member
    Thanks everyone!
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