In order to do good exercise I have to eat enough, right? But that seems like double dipping, right? To count your estimated activity AND your actual activity? So far I have been trying to stick with the original number, not counting the exercise calories as free calories I can eat.īut then I also wonder, if I am doing strenuous exercise, maybe I would need to properly fuel those workouts on those days? This kind of thing really gets me mixed up. MFP allows you to enter your exercise for the day and then gives you those calories back, adding them in with your remaining calories to eat for the day. Then I entered the target amount of calories in My Fitness Pal to track my daily intake (ETA: MFP will also give you a target based on their own calculation, which was close, but I used the other number instead, about 40 cals less). I entered my estimated activity level (and was conservative because some days I am active and some days I am sedentary). I used the calorie calculator ( ) to find out how many calories I need to consume in order to lose a pound a week.

I’m having some confusion about calorie counting. I thought I’d seen this discussed briefly in another thread, but it seemed inconclusive and I can’t find it now anyway…

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