Question for those who use My Fitness Pal

[KBQueen]

Do you eat back your exercise calories? It set me up to have 1200 cals a day but I tend to burn around 500 cals through exercise each day so should I eat some of these back? I have eaten some back over last couple of days as I've been hungry but up until then I havent went over 1200 cals

 

[Massdestruct]

Yes you are supposed to eat them back somebody on another site explained it like this:

Simply, you have to NET 1200 cals a day to be healthy. If you eat 1200 cals, but burn 1000, you are netting 200 cals a day, so you have to eat back the 1000 calories you burned during exercise.

Imagine your body is a car. You fill your car with 1200 fuel and you need 1200 fuel to go from A - B. Now imagine you take a detour that uses 1000 fuel. In order to be able to still make it to B, you're going to have to refuel your car the 1000 fuel so you can still make it to B.

^^ That helped me to understand - hope it helps you

 

[KBQueen]

That's a good way of explaining it, thank you x