Calories and exercise

sally7492016
sally7492016 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone know, is it better to have a lot of unused calories at the end of the day or to try to use them up. I feel like Im eating alot. I do hike a bit, so I get credit for my exercise. Should I just stick to the 1200 or use what credit I als...

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  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    Eat back at least half of the calories you burn, anywhere from 50% to 75% of the calories you burn should be eaten back. Only reason I say that and not 100% is because exercise calorie burns tend to be overestimated.
  • sally7492016
    sally7492016 Posts: 5 Member
    Thank you so much, I just wasnt trusting it :)
  • sally7492016
    sally7492016 Posts: 5 Member
    One more question. Do you feel MyFitnesspal is pretty accurate with calories burned in exercise. I have it synced with my fitbit
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    sally7492016 wrote: »
    One more question. Do you feel MyFitnesspal is pretty accurate with calories burned in exercise. I have it synced with my fitbit

    It's fairly accurate, especially if you use a device to measure like a fitbit, or a HR monitor or something like that, but everything is just an estimate, not exact, so take that into mind.
  • sally7492016
    sally7492016 Posts: 5 Member
    edited April 2017
    Thank you very much!!! Have a great Sunday
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    sally7492016 wrote: »
    Thank you very much!!! Have a great Saturday

    You too :)
  • CoachJen71
    CoachJen71 Posts: 1,201 Member
    Yes, eat them, especially if you have a tracker. :)

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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    If your method for calculating exercise calories is accurate then it is better to eat them all and keep to the calorie deficit that you set up. If it isn't accurate then figure out what you need to do to make it accurate.
  • sally7492016
    sally7492016 Posts: 5 Member
    Okay so this is what it looked like yesterday. Am I doing it correctly ?
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