I've been a little confused lately with my diet--specifically calories. Maybe some of you nutritionally-minded people out there can give me an answer, if you'd be so gracious as to help.As mentioned before, I'm trying to lose weight. So far the pounds have melted off relatively easy. Serious calorie tracking and a little bit of exercise has been just the thing apparently.
However, as I extend my runs and increase my pace, each workout is expending more and more calories. A little exercise is turning into a little more exercise.
And that's where the confusion is coming in.When I input my exercise into MyFitnessPal, it gives me a "net calories" number, subtracting my workout calories expended from my calorie intake. Before, when it was a just a few hundred calories, I kind of just split the difference. But these days my workouts are burning 600+ calories (and rising). When added into the equation, if I meet my net calorie goal, then I'm eating a much larger number of calories than my raw goal.
For example--MFP wants me to eat 1840 cal/day. But when I add in my workouts I have to eat 2440 cal/day to reach my net goal, (2440-600=1840). That's a great deal of calories comparatively!
And it leaves me with a conundrum. I don't want to eat so many calories I stop losing weight. But I really don't want to eat so few calories that I stop losing weight.
Help?
