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Please explain counting calories
Hi! Lurker here.
I joined my local gym about 2 months ago and Im loving it! Fitness is quickly becoming a big part of my life. I joined to combat depression and to get healthy, most of my life I have been a good normal weight but in the past 5 years I gone about 5-10 lbs over what I would consider my goal weight however mostly I would like to gain strength.
If my calorie needs are (for example) 1500 cal a day to slowly lose fat, does that mean if I exercise and burn 300 cals, do I eat 300 more?
Re: Please explain counting calories
I think it depends on how you're calculating your 'calorie needs'. If 1500 calories a day gives you a caloric deficit, then you should try to eat back your exercise calories (so ~1800 calories).
For example, I calculate my BMR and it's ~1850 daily for a sedentary lifestyle (because I have a desk job). I set a daily deficit from that that puts me on track to lose ~.5 or so a week (so ~1700 calories a day). When I exercise (anything from walking the dogs to gym workouts) I track how many calories I burn using a heart rate monitor, and I try to eat back some/most of that.
If I do a long hike and burn 1000 calories, I probably won't eat all of that back. But if I do a ~300-400 calorie workout, I try to eat that back (and eat back something good: lean protein, etc.).
Hope that is helpful.
I've been using loseit.com and the loseit app. Love it! I plugged in my stats and desired weight loss and it gave me a calorie target (1330 per day). If I exercise, it adds the calories on to my target, so yesterday;s run gave me 400 extra calories to eat.
loseit is free and is working for me. there are lots of other similar ones that work just as well.
Thanks! I think I got it now. Im pretty good about choosing the right foods to eat but I never know when to stop.