Advice/Thoughts to exercise & calorie consumption

Chelsee53
Chelsee53 Posts: 7
edited October 4 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey everyone! I have a question for you all about calories and exercise recordings. So I am on a 1300 calorie/day diet and am happy with that amount of calories. I would like to keep track of my exercise on here, but when I do it gives me more calories that it says I need to consume. I have been a serious athlete for many many years and know that you have to have a lot of calories to lose weight safely. However, when I eat the total calories it says I need after logging my exercise I lose absolutely nothing.
So my question to everyone is do I jsut ignore that it is telling me that I am eating too few calories after logging my exercise? Or what do I need to do?!? Thanks everyone!
Have a blessed and wonderful day!!

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  • bcampbell54
    bcampbell54 Posts: 932 Member
    You should know that this is the most-asked question on here.
    So let me be the first to say yes...and no
  • CNYKrista
    CNYKrista Posts: 61
    I try to eat at least half back as good measure.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    How are you coming up with your calorie burn numbers? There may be a margin of error. It's designed such that you eat your target calories, but that depends on your settings and calorie burn numbers being pretty accurate. Some people who do not fully trust their numbers aim to eat back half their logged exercise burn.
  • Musicgrl4life
    Musicgrl4life Posts: 132
    most days i eat less than it tells me. it says i should be having 1480 cals. but generally i have a little over a thousand - 1300. ive only gone over 1480 2 times since being back on my diet for almost 2 1/2 months. Also, it depends how many calories you burn off, if you burn 500+ then you should definitely eat back some of your calories. And if you have 1200-1300 calories a day, you will be fine. just ignore that saying you aren't eating enough.
  • TXBlonde81
    TXBlonde81 Posts: 78 Member
    I usually add back in half if I am in need of calories - ie I was already under my 1200 goal. So like last night I needed to add 400 calories in total after I went to the gym. Since it was 10pm and I was only going to be up for another hour or two I just had an after workout snack for 200 calories - 1 tbsp Peanut Butter & 1 glass of milk.

    If I was already at or right near my 1200 I would probably skip eating the extra calories unless I was ravaged.
  • H_Factor
    H_Factor Posts: 1,722 Member
    If you're not losing weight by eating back all of your exercise calories, try eating back just half of them.

    additionally, if you are relying on MFP estimates for exercise calories burned, then eating back half of those is the way to go because MFP estimates are consistently 30-50% higher than what folks report using HRM for the same exercise. For me, the HRM vs. MFP varies by as much as 50% more, but on some things its only about 10% higher on MFP.
  • txmike64
    txmike64 Posts: 57 Member
    I limit to an absolute of 1800 calories, if I'm not exercising that day, I have to go lower as my goal is 1710. But I may only eat back 1-200 of these calories.
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