Eat or not eat exercise calories..

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  • astridfeline
    astridfeline Posts: 1,200 Member
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    It says 1635....My mfp is 1335.....I usually burn about 400-800 a day. So what does this mean?

    This means you should eat at least 1635 calories per day, plus eat your exercise calories. One weakness of MFP is that it lets you eat below your BMR, which you shouldn't do.
  • MontanaGirl
    MontanaGirl Posts: 1,251 Member
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    I attend bootcamp with an Apex Certified Nutrition Specialist, a kineseologist and we have weekly meetings with a dietician. It is your personal decision rather you choose to eat your exercise calories or not. Point being, your deficit increases each day you do not choose to eat them. For women, most of us do not count every single morsel that we put in our mouths. Therefore, it is these expert's opinion that we are more likely under counting calories than over counting calories.

    Again, it is advice I have been given and my opinion that you can choose to follow or not. I'm not trying to convince you and don't feel the need to scientifically sell it to you. Everything works different for everyone's body.

    I didn't eat my exercise calories and I lost 6 pounds last week.

    Well - if you are so sold on this, then would you please provide info? All of us are just trying to do the best for our bodies and if you have facts that will help us we would like to hear them. If you're just following advice because it was given to you - well then a lot of us could do that. I was advised once to not eat vegetables and just eat meat and cheese. Fortunately, I didn't take the advice :happy: But if you have something with scientific backup I, personally, would like to hear it.
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
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    I attend bootcamp with an Apex Certified Nutrition Specialist, a kineseologist and we have weekly meetings with a dietician. It is your personal decision rather you choose to eat your exercise calories or not. Point being, your deficit increases each day you do not choose to eat them. For women, most of us do not count every single morsel that we put in our mouths. Therefore, it is these expert's opinion that we are more likely under counting calories than over counting calories.

    Again, it is advice I have been given and my opinion that you can choose to follow or not. I'm not trying to convince you and don't feel the need to scientifically sell it to you. Everything works different for everyone's body.

    I didn't eat my exercise calories and I lost 6 pounds last week.

    I hope you don't think I'm attacking you, I just wanted to know why you felt that way. Anyway, so let me know if I read it right. So the ditetician agrees that you need to stay within a certain deficit correct? And they are basically saying that most women lie to themselves about what they eat. Well, ok, if someone is doing that, then yeah, I guess you probably COULD get away with not eating your exercise calories.

    So that being the case, would you agree with this statement? "If you are honest and record all your calories, and all your exercise, you should eat your exercise calories because this site already builds in a deficit for you."

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