Keep in mind that the average person can burn 70 calories just by:

• Sleeping for about an hour
  
• Meditating for about an hour
• Cleaning your house for 20 minutes
• Mopping for 18 minutes
• Watching television for about an hour
• Showering and drying yourself for 30 minutes

Food is what fuels us and allows us to exist throughout the day: Without those 70 calories, simple daily activities like this wouldn’t even be possible. So to believe that those calories need to instantly and inherently be exercised away is harmful and downright untrue. 

–> Exercise is not a punishment for eating food.

–> Calories do not instantly need to be negated by exercise.

Your body is going to continue burning calories and using up energy whether or not you do a thousand jumping jacks. Trying to “balance” out your caloric intake like this will doubtless lead to an abusive and unhealthy relationship with food. Please don’t think of calories as something bad or guilty - You need them. They’re here to help your body and support your activity, not serve as a shameful source of fitness motivation. 

ya this is so important and i just wanna add that as an athlete who works out a Lot both when i’m in season and when i’m not, i never think of calories as something that i’m getting rid of by exercising, but as something that fuels my exercise. if i don’t get enough caloric intake during the day i won’t be able to give the same effort to my workouts and if i were totally eliminating all the calories i consume during the day when i exercised, i wouldn’t have energy to do anything else! calories fuel everything you do