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here is "what is net calories"

LovingLisa2012
LovingLisa2012 Posts: 775 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
We set your nutritional target in Net Calories which we define as:

Calories Consumed (Food) - Calories Burned (Exercise) = Net Calories

What that means is that if you exercise, you will be able to eat more for that day. For example, if your Net Calorie goal is 2000 calories, one way to meet that goal is to eat 2,500 calories of food, but then burn 500 calories through exercise.

Think of your Net Calories like a daily budget of calories to spend. You spend them by eating, and you earn more calories to eat by exercising.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/help/faq/268-what-are-net-calories

this is per the help section on the site (link above)

ETA: the title should read "what are net calories" but i can't edit that ..lol

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  • nhguy78
    nhguy78 Posts: 34 Member
    Why doesn't one earn more when lifting weights?
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    Your net calories are what's left to run your body with after you subtract what you burned exercising.

    Let's say you eat 2000 calories. But you exercise and burn 500. Looking only at weight-loss, this is as if you ate 1500 and didn't exercise.
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