Additional calories given for excercise

malibu927 wrote: »

The way MFP is set up you lose weight without exercise if you told it you wish to lose weight. Exercising increases your calories burned, so in order to keep the deficit consistent, it's expected that you eat at least a portion of them back.

This, especially if you are eating 1200 calories (don't know if you are, but saying that just in case.). Eating back at least half is a good idea, so that your deficit isn't too large, because your deficit will be what MFP has calculated for you already, plus the exercise calories, if that makes sense.

ToshaMkay wrote: »

Does anyone know how I remove the extra calories MyFitnessPal adds to my daily intake for excercise. I'm trying to lose weight, not maintain, and the extra calories aren't helpful for me.

Sometimes the extra calories are not very important: morbidly obese, or a combo of minimal exercise and a moderate weight loss goal.

But sometimes extra calories are very important. If you are closer to goal or you exercise a lot or you have an aggressive weekly goal - then a large deficit is not doing you any favors. Your body will not fuel existing lean muscle mass as efficiently. A large deficit doesn't lower your body fat % as much.

Go in to your profile, under goals, go to exercise calories and disable the feature. You won't see the additional calories now. Hope that helps.