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limaldo96
limaldo96 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
This may seem like a silly question but I want to be sure I understand. Is the calorie count remaining after your goal minus food intake plus exercise the deficit? What’s a healthy deficit goal number? I read somewhere that you should be consuming more since you are burning more but that doesn’t seem right if you’re trying to drop some weight.

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,129 Member
    The deficit is already taken off if you have set up your account for weight loss.

    Because MFP used the NEAT method to calculate your intake calories, it doesn't take into account any exercise, so yes if you're doing intentional exercise you should be eating more.

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,420 Member
    If you have a Goal, eat that amount. The site does all the math. Eat until the bottom of your FOOD page says zero.

    Here is the "Help" explanation from help at the top of every page:

    How does MyFitnessPal calculate my initial goals?
  • limaldo96
    limaldo96 Posts: 3 Member
    Thank you both! Very helpful!

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