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kristieldred82
kristieldred82 Posts: 2 Member
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Do I eat the goal or the remaining? Not sure which.

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  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    The goal is the base number of calories you need per day to achieve the amount of weight loss you entered. It doesn't account for exercise, which expends additional calories. And in this case you have already eaten and logged 795 calories.

    So you are meant to eat the remaining calories.

    You may find over time that the estimates MFP gives for calories burned by exercise are inflated. For this reason some people choose to take the exercise number with a grain of salt and eat back only a portion of their exercise calories.
  • laurenthecarts
    laurenthecarts Posts: 41 Member
    It's kinda 'each to their own'. Lots of people say you should, some say they don't.. I personally tend to aim for my pre-exercise calories and only use the additional ones if I have a real hankering or am starving. I also like to save them so that cheat meals or alcohol on a night out etc. aren't that damaging over all :)

    Everyone is different - if you eat all of them and lose the weekly weight that you're aiming for then amazing! If you do but your loss is slower then I'd stick with the basic allowance.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    From Help at the top of every page comes this: How does MyFitnessPal calculate my initial goals?

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