not understanding????

The mopre u burn the more u have to eat! xxx

Many people will tell you that you should net at least 1200 cals per day, which would mean that you need to eat around another 900 cals. Can't say that that logic really works for me, but you may find if you are doing that much exercise you may find that you lack energy or get tired quickly, so may want to eat more than you are. However, as long as you are eating appropriate foods and are not feeling hungry, I wouldnt recommend forcing yourself to eat more, particularly empty calories just to make the numbers up. Everybody is different, so you just have to keep working at it to find the balance that suits you. You may also find that you don't always want to eat the same cals every day. Some days I am much hungrier than others, irrespective of what I have done that day. Good luck with it!! :drinker:

MFP allows you to eat back your exercise calories. So your goal at the start of the day is the amount you need to eat to lose your goal amount of weight each week (whatever you have that set to, for example to lose 1lb a week). Then the figure listed under food is the amount of calories you have eaten so far that day, and then the amount listed under exercise is what you burned that day so that gets taken away from the amount you have eaten - the 'net' figure then is what you have effectively taken on board in calories for that day - (calories in minus the exercise calories burned) - ideally MFP wants to see that figure be the same as your goal figure, which in your case would indeed be an awful lot of calories to eat each day!

The goal figure of 2630 seems quite high, are you very overweight? Do you have a very active job (if you have your daily standard activity level set at a very high level it will give you more calories to eat each day as a basic level because of that). Remember MFP will have set that figure as your maintenance figure LESS approx 500 cals per day already! Also, you're obviously doing a LOT of exercise in order to claim 1500 calories burned during workouts - how are you calculating this? Do you use a heart rate monitor (suggested by a lot of people to give much more accurate calories burned figures than those claimed on MFP!).

There have been MANY debates on here about whether or not to eat back exercise calories, at the end of the day it all has to come down to what works for you and how quickly you want to see results (how much willpower you have!). Some eat them all back, others never eat any, some eat some of them! It's a case of trying it out and seeing what works for you. However, you should always eat a minimum of probably 1500 calories per day (for you, for some small women the minimum is 1200) no matter what for the sake of your health and getting enough nutrients from your food.

Hope that help!