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If you burn 1500 extra calories through exercise, you’d add that to your base of 2000 and eat around 3500. 1500 calories is roughly what you’d burn of running 13-16 miles, depending on your weight & fitness, which seems like a lot, so you might want to double check your math on that.
It seems everyone’s different, too, so just eat as you feel you need to and keep an eye on your weight to see if it’s moving in any direction. An online calculator can’t truly tell you how much you’re burning.
1500 cals sounds like the number a Fitness tracker randomly spits out. Thats super inaccurate. If you’re a amateur cyclist riding for 1 1/2h a day + intense lifting you might burn 1.5k cals. If you’re new you’re no where near that number
> If I want to maintain 2000 cals per day, and I burn off 1500 cals would I need to increase Caloric intake to 2500 cals per day?
2500 - 1500 = 1000 If you want to “maintain those 2000 calories” then you need to eat 3500.