Net calories

mandiex0
mandiex0 Posts: 174
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I am 5'3, 137lbs and 17 years old. My whole weightloss I haven't paid attention to my net calories until I purchased a polar ft. Ive been logging all my calories burned for the day and im usually around 600, 700 net calories. I consume about 1250, to 1300 calories a day. Some people have been telling me im not eating nearly enough and that my net should be ATLEAST 1000. Could anyone just take the time to explain it to me? Thanks

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  • Andeenero
    Andeenero Posts: 22 Member
    from my understanding, your net should be 1200.
  • vettle
    vettle Posts: 621 Member
    anything below your BMR is putting strain on your organs. Eat more please!
  • Brigantia
    Brigantia Posts: 5
    Hello,
    I just maid sense of my net calorie count. Here is the for formula:

    Food - Exercise = Calorie net.

    My calorie net for today was

    1489 (food) - 345 (exercise) = 1144 (net)

    So this mean tha I did not eat enough today cause my calorie net should have been 1500. The reason why you need to eat it's because your body will go in starvation mode and keep every thhing. The risk is not weigh loss and health issues. Also you have to keep in mind that every exercise count even if it's just walking up a set of stairs of walking to school. All my exercise today came from doing my errands and walking a lot but at a faster pace then usual. Since you are 17 and still developping 1300 calories a day is not enough to increase your metabolism, you won't have enough energy to go about just your regular activities and worse you will be hunder all the and eat a lot. Trust me, when I was 17 did the same thing and ending gaining 60lbs and been struggling 20yrs to loose it.

    Hope this help

    Have a good day

    Brigantia
  • mandiex0
    mandiex0 Posts: 174
    that makes sense its just, i am so close to my goal and my weight is not budging. i am considering increasing my intake to 1300, maybe it will help me out. i am a workout fein! i love working out and burning calories, but i am begining to think i need some more food in my body if im going to be burning half of what i eat during the day.. does that sound okay? i am a little nervous of increasing my calories, i hope i dont see any weight gain :/
  • Michelle_M2002
    Michelle_M2002 Posts: 301 Member
    If you eat 1,000 calorie a day less than you burn, you will loose 2 pounds of at a week.

    My goal is to burn 2600 calorie a day, so I eat 1600 calories a day. The more you burn, the more you should be eating.

    God bless!
  • veganbaum
    veganbaum Posts: 1,865 Member
    NET calories should be a total of your goal. Let's say you change your goal to 1300. Then you burn 400 doing exercise. You are only netting 900 calories - most people say a woman needs a minimum net calories intake of 1200 calories to fuel their body - and this is minimally. So you need to eat 400 more calories to get back to your goal of 1300. The reason this is so is because MFP already inputs a calorie deficit for you based on your weekly weight loss goal BEFORE exercise, so you're already in a calories deficit if you eat your goal calories. If you exercise and don't eat them back, you are sending your body into a much larger caloric deficit, which isn't healthy. I personally don't eat all my exercise calories back just because right now I am solely relying on MFP to calculate my food and exercise calories, so I leave a gap to account for mistakes like higher food cals or lower exercise cals, but I still eat back at least 1/2 my exercise cals.

    Here's a link created by a member to explain it more:

    http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/
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