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LiveOnceBeHappy wrote: »

Can't you do both and find a balance? That's what I'm doing. I track my calories intake. Then when I exercise, now that I'm in maintenance, I add those calories to my bank of available intake.

You can do both, but many people think you can exercise your way out of a bad diet. You can't. There's a reason bodybuilders tend to say abs are made in the kitchen. Exercise is great, but if you rely on it for weight loss and staying in shape, you'll be stuck spinning your wheels, both literally and figuratively.

Well, to be fair, you are allowing for your exercise calories. If you were not, you'd be either gaining or losing weight.

This site just calculates your calories based on the premise that Exercise burns calories, and to use the numbers here, you enter the exercise.

https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032625391-How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals-

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

I *could* set my calories to include exercise. Or I can just use it the way it's set up.

If you ate less, you'd lose. Doesn't matter where those calories are calculated - your body counts all of them, and you just adjust.