How many calories am I actually burning?

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jdbrrw
jdbrrw Posts: 16 Member
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Hi, I'm just wondering what the best way is to most accurately determine how many calories I burn during exercise.
For instance, when I enter my weight and exercise on MFP for elliptical trainer, it tells me that I'm burning ~45 more calories than the machine tells me I burn.
I've been going off of the machine since it has the lower amount on it, but I've read a lot of articles that say these machines tend to overestimate.
Should I just not worry about it much? I don't usually eat my exercise calories back.

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  • jenglish712
    jenglish712 Posts: 497 Member
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    Many people will eat 50% of their exercise calories back. But if you aren't eating them back I wouldnt worry about it at all.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
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    A heart rate monitor is going to be the most accurate, though not entirely still. The way MFP is set up, you are supposed to eat your exercise calories back, but due to overestimations most people go with 50-75%.

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