Did you know...

jazzy550

To lose weight you must burn more calories than you consume. A pound is 3,500 calories so in order to lose two pounds a week you must burn an additional 7,000 calories than you eat.

Liftng4Lis

Yes?

jazzy550

I didn't! Ha! Thought it was good info.

SandyBVTN

Yep it's a great thing to know! Funny I was looking at the calorie content on this awesome looking smoked sausage my husband brought home the other day. The whole sausage was exactly 3500 calories. A year ago, I would have happily eaten half of it in one sitting.

segacs

Also, the sky is blue.

SergeantSausage

In other news: water is wet, sun is hot, night is dark.

kommodevaran

Yes, I knew that, but not everybody does, and they usually freak out from weight fluctuations ("oh noes, I haven't even lost a pound the last week" etc). Good to know, important to remember. One occasional splurge will NOT distroy your hard work. Well, maybe yours, Sandy

jazzy550

So this dispels the debate wether or not you should replace the calories you burn after exercise... The answer is no! Agree?

sijomial

jazzy550 wrote: »

So this dispels the debate wether or not you should replace the calories you burn after exercise... The answer is no! Agree?

No - you have much to learn.

Here's a good start point....
community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1

jazzy550

sijomial wrote: »

jazzy550 wrote: »

So this dispels the debate wether or not you should replace the calories you burn after exercise... The answer is no! Agree?

No - you have much to learn.

Here's a good start point....
community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1

Siijomial!!! That's too much calculating! So the answer is no?

jazzy550

... I need the answer in English not in a math equation. I am too challenge for that!

sijomial

Simple answer - weight loss, or gain, or maintenance is due to your calorie balance over a period of time.

So unless you take notice of both your intake (food, drink) and your output (basic bodily functions, activity, exercise) you simply don't have all the data you need.

There's several ways to do this and MyFitnessPal's way is just one of them, estimating after the event.

Your calorie goal is a goal to hit not to undercut.

jazzy550

Ok so you are saying on the days you exercise you have to eat the calories expended and keep in your allotted range? I thought when you created your account they approximated your output and based your daily intake on that.

sijomial

jazzy550 wrote: »

I thought when you created your account they approximated your output and based your daily intake on that.

Nope. That's where MyFitnessPal is different to the more mainstream TDEE based calculators. They estimate exercise calories in advance rather than afterwards.

So when you set your activity setting here (sedentary, lightly active or whatever...) it excludes exercise, just day to day lifestyle and job activity. As an extreme example a marathon runner that works at a desk and sits down all evening watching TV is still sedentary.

Don't worry that point escapes many!

jazzy550

Oh no! If that's the case I need to modify my account! Hope I can figure it out. My job is a lot of sitting.,.

cityruss

MFP doesn't take exercise in to account, just your lifestyle activity.

Net Calories Consumed = Total Calories Consumed - Exercise Calories Burned

Your goal is to hit the Net calories set.

It really can't be any more simple.

Some easy numbers for example.

Your total daily calorie burn - 2000
You intake - 1500
Your created deficit - 500

Burn an extra 200 through exercise.

Your total daily calorie burn - 2200
Your intake - 1500
Your created deficit - 700

You're aiming for a deficit of 500, so you can eat the 200 back without compromising anything.

jazzy550

I figured out how to change my daily activity as I would consider my job sedentary; when I created my profile I thought they meant in accordance with your exercise level ...So my intake was too high!!! Ugh! Oh well at least I got it figured out...

segacs

jazzy550 wrote: »

I figured out how to change my daily activity as I would consider my job sedentary; when I created my profile I thought they meant in accordance with your exercise level ...So my intake was too high!!! Ugh! Oh well at least I got it figured out...

That's okay, sounds like you've got the hang of it now. Activity level at sedentary, and log exercise and you'll earn additional calories on top of that base level. On the days when you don't exercise, just eat the base level of calories.

Also, make sure your goal is reasonable for the amount of weight you have to lose. With only 22lbs to lose, you should probably be targeting 0.5 or 1lb/week at the most -- if you've set it to 2lbs/week, it's too fast for you and it's going to give you an unrealistically low number of calories.

jazzy550

Ok! I guess as long as I am down even a 1/2 pound is good.

Sued0nim

When you log exercise cut the calories in half (or take up to 75%) ...you can double click on the calorie box to do this...then eat them

MFP database and machines tend to overestimate calorie burn for most people

jazzy550

Yeah well that's was going to be my next thread! I went bike riding at what I would consider a leisurely pace and although I rode my bike for an hour and forty five minutes I think the calorie count burned of over 700 is too much! I hardly broke a sweat. I might have really exerted myself like thirty minutes of the ride. Help!

jazzy550

I went to another web site and it said 540. I'll go with that!

jazzy550

...wait i re entered it the right way; it says the same as the other website, 539. I know I burned at least 400. Well that's confusing as heck!

TimothyFish

You can expect to get the same numbers because a lot of these sites use the same data source.