Exercise calories

Shazia402017
Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hi ive just started ony fitness pal...i exercise everyday mainly jogging...iv put it in as that i am active..is that right??? I also logged in the exercise and it increased my daily calories...1200 plus exercise calories...should i be eating those extra calories if i am exercising???

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    your activity level is your movement day to day at work etc, but not purposeful exercise.

    that's why you should log your exercise separately.
  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    Nope. Your activity setting is your non exercise life. So desk job sedentary doing construction might be active. Your workout doesn't count towards your activity level.
    Then log the workout and as most estimates of workouts are high on calories eat back half your exercise calories.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    amtyrell wrote: »
    Nope. Your activity setting is your non exercise life. So desk job sedentary doing construction might be active. Your workout doesn't count towards your activity level.
    Then log the workout and as most estimates of workouts are high on calories eat back half your exercise calories.

    you can get fairly accurate counts for running.
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    I logged in the exercise separately
  • cs2thecox
    cs2thecox Posts: 533 Member
    Then yes, eat most of it back.

    Also, note that 1,200 is MFP's bottom daily allowance for health/safety reasons.
    If it's giving you that calorie level, you might want to check you haven't been too aggressive with your weekly loss goal.

    If you post more info, there are loads of bods on here who are good at sanity checking!
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    Haha thankyou..1200 is what it gave me as based on my current weight..height...age...and how much i want to lose
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Shazia402017 wrote: »
    Haha thankyou..1200 is what it gave me as based on my current weight..height...age...and how much i want to lose

    you said in your OP that you had your activity level to active? and its still only giving you 1200 cals? that means your rat eof loss is probably far too high.
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    No this is my 2nd day on mfp...i just my activity as active as i exercise daily 45 min.
    Im not even sure what my activity level should be
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Shazia402017 wrote: »
    No this is my 2nd day on mfp...i just my activity as active as i exercise daily 45 min.
    Im not even sure what my activity level should be

    what do you do for work?
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    Im a Teacher..i just checked it...everytime i change the level...its still 1200 cals a day...i only have like half a stone or upto a stone to lose...not much
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Shazia402017 wrote: »
    Im a Teacher..i just checked it...everytime i change the level...its still 1200 cals a day...i only have like half a stone or upto a stone to lose...not much

    so your rate of loss should be 0.5lb -1lb max.

    if you're a teacher than light active is probably about right.
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    Thank you...should i eat my extra exercise calories???
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Shazia402017 wrote: »
    Thank you...should i eat my extra exercise calories???

    yes
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    I had 1200 and 342 extra from exercise...well thats what it estimated it as...
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Shazia402017 wrote: »
    I had 1200 and 342 extra from exercise...well thats what it estimated it as...

    a fairly accurate way of calcumating calories for running is bodyweight in lbs x 0.63 x distance in miles
  • Shazia402017
    Shazia402017 Posts: 8 Member
    Thanx i think im going to eat my extra cals and see if i lose this way this week
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Shazia402017 wrote: »
    Thanx i think im going to eat my extra cals and see if i lose this way this week

    do you weigh your food with scales?
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Some people eat back about half of their exercise calories.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    RodaRose wrote: »
    Some people eat back about half of their exercise calories.

    the running calculation is pretty accurate
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