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1. MJ2010
   

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   Hi Liz/Everyone,

   I have found your website most helpful and inspiring. I have a question however about the calories side of it, I understand you are meant to eat at least 1200 cals per day so you don't go into starvation etc, but I have noticed my iphone calorie tracker (my fitness pal) always adds exercise calories to the total I am meant to eat. For example, if I eat 1200 calories and then burn say 300 calories, it says that I should eat another 300 calories. This doesn't make sense to me as what is the point of exercising if you're going to eat the calories again! But I thought well maybe your body goes into starvation if your net calories (i.e. eaten less exercise) falls below 1200. Are you able to shed any light on this?

   Cheers,
   MJ

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Liz Quilty
   

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   Okay, if your body on average uses say 3000 calories, then you only eat 1200, thats a difference of 1800 (which is a fair bit!). So if you exercise another 300 away, then you are then using 3300 instead of 3000 and will then need to eat another 300 to be at -1800 calories a day.

   Generally speaking, by having a diet of -500 a day you will loose about 1lb a week (7 days x -500 calorie = -3500 total = 1lb or almost half a kg). The average person will use 2000-3000 a day just walking around, going toilet, breathing, your heart beating etc. Doing exercises increases this, and being overweight again increases this more. So don't kill yourself trying to do massive amounts of weight loss too quickly if you can help it. Eat the extra 300 calories, but make it healthy foods

   Posted 1 year ago #

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