To Eat or Not to eat Net Calories , that is the Question !!!

While there is a debate, in your specific situation I think the clear answer is yes.

If you eat 1200 calories and burn 2000, you are at a ridiculous deficit. Not just 800, 800 + your BMR, aka probably in the 2000 calorie range.

This is dangerous.

You should be NETTING 1200 calories.

Also, what are you doing that you're burning 2000 calories a day? Are you sure this is a good estimate?

There's a lot of debate on the topic everywhere. There's also a lot of terms like "net", TDEE, MBR, etc that get dragged in to the mix.

Here's what I do. I've lost weight doing it.

Once you're through the setup process and have your goals set (set your lifestyle to sedentary unless your daily life really is very busy), change the tracker so you are tracking five things:

- Calories
- Fat
- Carbohydrates
- Sugars
- Proteins

Log all your food AND all your exercise. Exercise a lot to earn lots of extra food and EAT IT.

Try to make the "remaining" numbers on each of the things you are tracking as close to zero as possible. Do this every day for 2-3 weeks. See if it works.

If I'm not losing weight:
- If I'm tired, hungry, listless, or can't make it through a workout, I increase my daily calorie allowance (lower my weight loss goal) and as a result eat more.
- If I'm energetic, feeling good, workouts are nice sweaty and enjoyable, I decrease my daily calorie allowance (raise my weight loss goal) and as a result eat less.


Yes, you can lose weight FASTER if you eat less. At first. But then you'll just be hungry and prone to cheating, you're starving your body of what it needs to build muscle for long-term calorie loss, and at the end of this "diet" you'll simply go back to your old eating habits and then your old weight.

Calories in vs. calories out isn't quite that simple. Your body needs nutrient dense food. You only really want to eat them all back if your goals is to be a high performance athlete.

A 1000 to 2000 calorie burn per day means you would be doing 1.5 to 3 hours of continuous high intensity activity per day...how many days a week are you doing that?



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so basically my net calories shudd be 1200 ?..

Yes, or as close as you can get. If you end at 1150, you'll be fine. If you end up at 400, you've got a problem.

what in the world are net caloriess !! i been on mfp and i still dont get the darn thing lol !!
i eat 1200 calories and i usually burn 1000-2000 calories ; do i eat my net calories? or do i continue to eat only my goal calories?

Signed , Crazy for Net Calories .

If you are netting 0 or less than 0 you should be eating some of those back.

But... I'm going to question your statement that you are burning up to 2000 calories a day. How? Doing what?