If I burn more calories than what I eat, should I eat more?
If I burn more calories than what I eat, should I eat more?
by Rmon_34
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HealthyStranger
I have two considerations.
1. How do you know you burned 2000 calories? What was your activity? The reason I ask is because most calorie burning estimators can be overestimating (and sometimes by huge margins). Everybody is different. If you take 1000 people and have them all jog 1 mile they will have huge ranges of amount of calories they just burned. Many individuals skip tracking calories burned entirely, simply because it’s hard to track. But it is easy to track calories and weight.
2. If you are doing a high intensity activity that is burning 1000+ calories a day, you may need to be considering your ability do such an activity long term only eating 1500 calories.
So while I can’t directly answer your question, stick to the basics. Track your calories. Track your weight. If you can do this activity while losing weight (or maintaining weight if that’s your goal) and you personally have enough energy to do it all, should be okay in most cases. If you are dropping weight too fast and/or are miserable, adjust accordingly with higher calories.
(for example I jog, run, lift, and bike. I never track calories burned by these, only track what I eat. I track my daily weight and look at trends over time to make sure I’m losing at my goal rate. As long as I am still losing 1-1.5 pounds a week-ish, then I know that my total calories in < calories out)
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I have two considerations.
1. How do you know you burned 2000 calories? What was your activity? The reason I ask is because most calorie burning estimators can be overestimating (and sometimes by huge margins). Everybody is different. If you take 1000 people and have them all jog 1 mile they will have huge ranges of amount of calories they just burned. Many individuals skip tracking calories burned entirely, simply because it’s hard to track. But it is easy to track calories and weight.
2. If you are doing a high intensity activity that is burning 1000+ calories a day, you may need to be considering your ability do such an activity long term only eating 1500 calories.
So while I can’t directly answer your question, stick to the basics. Track your calories. Track your weight. If you can do this activity while losing weight (or maintaining weight if that’s your goal) and you personally have enough energy to do it all, should be okay in most cases. If you are dropping weight too fast and/or are miserable, adjust accordingly with higher calories.
(for example I jog, run, lift, and bike. I never track calories burned by these, only track what I eat. I track my daily weight and look at trends over time to make sure I’m losing at my goal rate. As long as I am still losing 1-1.5 pounds a week-ish, then I know that my total calories in < calories out)