Calories Burned weekly goal when manually setting my goals

12Lose25

I'm just getting started and chose to manually set my goals, because I'm following a low-carb plan. Even though I indicated my weekly "exercise" goals are 4 60-minute workouts, when I save settings, it shows "1" as calories burned goal for the week. Why is that and how do I get it to indicate what calories I "should" burn as a goal for the week? Thank you for any help you can give me. I've also bought and synced a FitBit, so that will hopefully register, too!

lattelizard

I have the same question!

ammo7

I think that the goals are meant to be chosen by you - for example, you choose your own goal weight, and you chose a goal of 4 60-minute workouts. Likewise, you could also choose a calorie burn goal for yourself. MFP doesn't choose goals for you - it tells you how many calories you should eat in order to meet your goals.

If you want to have a calorie burn goal but are unsure of what amount would be appropriate, you could see how many calories your FitBit says you burn during a good 60-minute workout, and then use that number as your goal to meet (or 4 times that number, since you want 4 workouts each week).

I personally just use a time goal, rather than a calorie burning goal. But I could definitely understand that some people would be extra-motivated by a calorie burning goal.