Hi Everyone!!! After weeks of lurking I have decided to join
A little bit of background info about me. I'm currently a grad student and after entering my second year I noticed that I was gaining weight rapidly. This comes as no surprise because of late night eating, loaded coffees, and my fast food addiction. However, I'm here to start fresh and feel better about myself.
I had a quick question about caloric intakes and deficits. I joined livestrong to track my calories. They determined in order for me to lose 2lbs a week (ambitious I know) I would have to consume 1350 calories a day. However, they calculate net carbs so if I worked out that day and burned 300 calories, they would subtract that from the total calories I ate and would then need to eat those 300. In total I would have eaten 1650 calories but my net caloric intake would be still be 1350 subtracting the calories from exercise. Does that make sense? I guess my question is...is this setting me up to lose weight? I was under the impression that once you have your total calorie count you eat that no matter how much exercise. However, if I did that I would only be taking in 1050 net calories. That seems awfully low.
Sorry this post ended up so long. But I'm happy to be here and I look forward to learning and sharing with everyone!