I decided to improve my health around 6 weeks ago and so far I've lost 7 lbs (I'm 5'8" and weighed 200lbs when I started). I've been using MyFitnessPal to track my daily net calories and I do it mostly by estimating the calories of the food I eat. When I exercise, I also enter it and the app subtracts that from my calories for the day (note: I realized quickly that MFP seems to overestimate exercise calories burned so I just use other tools online for the estimating and adjust it manually in MFP).
My question is why do a lot of people advise against counting calories out? The way I see it, if I have a daily caloric goal and I do exercise, estimating calories out is a good way to know how much more I should eat for that day to still get the more or less the calories that my needs to function well.
Some people say just count calories in and treat the exercise as a bonus loss. But if that's the case, I figured I might be in danger of eating too little to compensate for that day's activities.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!
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