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Originally Posted by HungryMom
When counting calories for the day-if I exercised do I minus the amount of calories I burned out of my total for the day? Does this question make sense??
-Becky
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For what it's worth, I actually did adjust the amount I ate based on exercise...every one's body operates a little differently, but in general my understanding is that, when eating at a deficit for a long period, our metabolisms will eventually start to slow down to meet the consistent energy available....leading to weight loss stalls and plateaus.
So, on some days I had no exercise, some days did weights and other days cardio, and the amount I ate varied from day to day based on this....and I really think that this constant variation is why I dropped weight week after week with virtually no stalls until the very last 10 lbs.
Basically I just set a daily target of a 500 calorie deficit. So some days the deficit might come in the form of 200 calories burned in exercise and 300 from food, other days all 500 might come from food and on other days maybe 300 from exercise and only 200 from food.