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@HatBeard
not really, more that if i'm already putting myself right at the low-end of calorie intake for me to lose weight 'healthily' then the additional exercise is in danger of pushing me into the crash-diet area in terms of calorific deficit which is unhealthy and will probably lead to the weight coming straight back again when I ease off the diet.
put simply when I was just dieting last year I would eat 1800 calories a day. because I didn't really exercise I knew that it was safe for me to do that.
now I cycle say I burn 250 calories each way cycling to work I end up with a net intake of 1300 which is much too low for a healthy adult male to be eating.
but on the other end if i were to take garmin at their word (which I wouldn't) and eat an additional 1400 calories a day to 'balance' out my 12 miles of commuting I'd probably be eating about 700-900 calories too much.
somewhere in between those two points is the sweet spot, but I'm not sure how to find it.