Eating back calories

wolfgangmom
wolfgangmom Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am sure this has been asked but I cannot find any recent posts here. Are you required to eat back exercise calories? My diary auto-deducts exercise claores so it now looks like I am 350 calories below daily intake.. Would appreciate any advice, or references.

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  • French_Peasant
    French_Peasant Posts: 1,639 Member
    Yes, MFP is designed for you to eat back the calories. Many people just eat back half or so due to inflated counts in the database.
  • CranstonJ2016
    CranstonJ2016 Posts: 142 Member
    I used MFP before and ate back calories I got according to my polar...and did not lose weight.

    I now do not log in any exercise at all and eat my recommended amount and I lose about 2lbs a week.

    That's just my experience.
  • devthekoala
    devthekoala Posts: 2 Member
    I turned off the exercise as eating back the exercise caused me to stall weight loss. It overestimates the amount of calories I burned.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    edited November 2016
    I generally don't eat them back in any appreciable amount. FitBit and MFP's burns are always way over for me. I let it sync and log here though, still aim for my original target, but don't worry if I drift over a bit on highly active days.
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