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deflect calories

sweetiebelle
sweetiebelle Posts: 332 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Should I be eating my deficit calories?

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  • jenluvs2sing
    jenluvs2sing Posts: 50 Member
    That seems to be the consensus. :)
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,354 Member
    I think you are confusing terms. Your deficit calories are the ones MFP takes off your estimated daily maintenance calories and that deficit is there to lose weight. Your exercise calories are above and beyond that deficit, and generally I do suggest with MFP eating them.
  • sweetiebelle
    sweetiebelle Posts: 332 Member
    Oh ok! Well I think I need to eat more than 1200 calories.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,354 Member
    If you exercise you will eat more than 1200 since you are supposed to eat the calories you burn with that exercise. If you open your food diary to the public it helps us give knowledgeable suggestions.
  • sweetiebelle
    sweetiebelle Posts: 332 Member
    But I've Lost weight by eating 1200. Its just recently that it doesn't work for me now. So now I have to figure out how many to eat
  • sweetiebelle
    sweetiebelle Posts: 332 Member
    My diary is open
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