Stupid diet/calorie/exercise question....

[Mo T 4 Me]

I think I understand your question.
I will reformulate:
Lets say my maintenance calories are 2000 and that I spend 500cal with an aerobic session (am just after getting up).
Will I lose fat eating 2500cal?
I may think no because there is no calorie deficit.
I may think yes because during my early aerobic session, primary fuel will be fat.

What do you think?

 

[MS]

What kind of calories you burn does not affect your calorie balance. You still have to take in less calories than you burn after you burn the fat, otherwise you're back to where you started. Now this is not quite the same for heavy weight training or sprinting because both of these activities (compared to cardio) will help you deposit those extra calories into muscle instead of fat. But since we're talking about ordinary cardio here, the answer is do not eat the extra 500 cals if you want to lose fat. I'm totally confused as to why this is hard to grasp

 

[Burning_Inside]

Hard for me to grasp because i've read many threads saying that i have to replenish what i burn for some reason
thanks for clearing it up tho.