Newbie with two questions...

skyerulz

Hi everyone,

I'm some what new to this, I haven't been on for quite a few months and I when I first signed up I wasn't vigilant in using it, so I have two odd(?) questions.

1. When I enter in my exercise it lowers my Net #, isn't the Net# the amt of calories I have left for the day? If so why does it lower it?

2. I did 30 mins of elliptical this morning and the machine said I burned 103, but when I used the MFP it said I should have burned 320, why is there such a huge difference?

Thanks in advance.

Sued0nim

1. Because you need to eat more...MFP works out your calories to eat if you did next to nothing, as soon as you do exercise you need to add it in..but the traditional approach is to eat back 50-75% of MFP database calories as they tend to overestimate

2. 20 mins elliptical on hugh resistance on my HRM is 150-200 calories ...I'd go with your machine burn (see above) but in general take care of machine estimates too

skyerulz

Thank You @Rabbitjb