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Yes, you're supposed to eat your exercise calories. That's how the tool works, it wouldn't give you calories back if you weren't supposed to eat them. Let's take a hypothetical person here: Person maintains on 2000 cals per day and would like to lose 1lb per week. 2000 maint - 500 cal deficit = 1500 cals per day to lose…

This.... Situps don't actually do what you thing they do (probably the same with any core exercise). Situps actually do more work on the hip flexors than the abs. Direct ab work isn't necessary for toned abs (there's no such thing as spot reduction). Moderate Deficit + work (cardio if you like and full body progressive…

There's zero chance you'll build anything if you're eating around 1000 cals a day and not eating back any exercise calories. You need blocks to build.

Awesome @Gisel2015 , even after re-reading the OP twice I still missed it. Is the fitbit giving you 700+ calorie burns on lifting days, or is that on days when you lift for 40ish min, and also do 30-60 min of cardio on top of it. I'm in agreement that 700 sounds a bit high as well. As a 200lb guy, I'd struggle to get to…

Along with the great advice you're getting on your food logging, are you getting your 700 calorie burns from MFP, or from a device such as a fitbit?

Um, say what now? And yes to the above

No, I'm thinking @Hornsby is saying that because it's more of an agenda piece, rather than a "documentary".

^^^^This. ^^^^Super doubtful it's this.

What are you grossing? I highly recommend the link I posted earlier.

OP, IMHO you're possibly going about this the wrong way..... You're already pretty much dead center for a healthy weight/BMI for your height. I would recommend investigating a recomp. Losing 5 more lbs probably won't give you the aesthetics you think/want. You'll lose some of that last 5lbs in LBM (muscle) so your BF% may…

And being exceptional can also come with a more razer thin deficit in order to maximize losses to mainly BF and not LBM, which normally includes not losing at 1.5-2 lbs per week. With the ops stats, 1700 sounds about right.

I'm confused by your point. I see "Calories Count" signs on the Vitamin Water, Aspire, Gatorade machines at schools and rinks all the time. What's your point, are they incorrect? What is the debate here?

Weird, nothing in there says anything about a calorie deficit, and misses the benefits of lifting especially when it comes to helping with lowering BF%.

Can I ask your stats? Mainly ht/wt/ per week loss goal?

If 600 left for the day is even remotely accurate, yes...you should be eating some back. How did you come to the 1200 cal number? No, it's not stupid to eat back exercise calories, that's how the tool works. It wouldn't give you the cals if it wasn't supposed to. With that said, it's an estimate. That's why most advise…

I was about to ask this.

That's not what she means.....

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You managed to gain muscle mass at 800 calories a day?? You must market this secret, ASAP.

How do you know you gained muscle and lost fat last week. It's pretty contradictory to be eating as little as 1200 calories, losing 2ish lbs per week and still be able to gain any mass. Herbalife isn't protein powder, it's a MRP. If you want to just supplement your protein you can get a much better protein supplement for a…

No, no they're not and "Fed Up" is more of a mockumentary than documentary.

That's basically not how to gain definition......

Ditto, and they really don't do what people hope they're doing. I mainly do 40 min of some sort of cardio 4 days a week, and different full body exercises on 3 of those.

That depends....how far over and how often does it put you over your calorie goal?

Ahh, I misread. Then we're exactly the same height. Agreed, there is zero reason that person wouldn't lose on a gross of 1800. I get a hair over 1800 to lose before exercise. My question still stands though, at said person's ht/wt, have they researched recomp.

Just throwing it out there....if you are interested in learning...on the bolded, you need to learn how hard it is to bulk and getting "trim" normally includes the same exercises that people use to add muscle, just different calorie goals. Lifting weights doesn't make you bulk, honestly quite the opposite. Lifting in a…

At 5'9" 160 has this person done any research on a recomp. You're basically the same height as me, and I was in the best shape at about 168-170.

Agreed 100%, I read the OP on my phone and missed how little OP can tend to eat (if all logging is pretty accurate).

If you're in a deficit your not going to gain muscle (even if you up your protien) and may even still struggle to maintain it as you do very little to no resistance work. On top of the protien, progressive overload resistance work is key to muscle retention.

Are you the only one, no. Is that how the tool is supposed to work, yes. If you've "slowed down" to 3lbs per week, you should probably be eating at least some of those exercise calories back. Like noted above, if your deficit is too steep you will be sacrificing a lot in muscle, not just fat.