Friend me if you don't lie about your exercise cals

Valrotha

karmcl wrote: »

Is it me, or do people give themselves WAY too much calorie credit for exercise on MFP? I'm an avid runner. I run between 8 & 9 minute miles, and average around 30 miles/week. I give myself credit for about -100 calories per mile. It drives me crazy to read about people claiming to burn 300 calories on a 3.5 mph lesiurely walk, or 700 calories during 30 minues on an elliptical. If it were that easy, I wouldn't run so fast. Thanks for letting me rant. Now please friend me and tell me to stop eating crap. My diary is open to my friends.

I'm sure I'm guilty of that as well. I was going with the number on the treadmill, which was around 435 calories per hour with a moderate incline. I still don't know if that was right or not. I think a lot of people are just getting bad information rather than lying about it.

Going with the first web site that pops up in my search engine, I see the following results...

Brisk walking (4 mph) claims to burn 250-345 calories, and I'm assuming that's on a flat surface. If that's close to accurate, is it unreasonable to assume that walking at an incline increases the calorie burn to over 400? I honestly don't know.

Source: http://www.caloriecontrol.org/articles-and-video/lets-get-physical

I think I just need to get a fitbit and be done with it.

Serah87

I love how people come on and rant/judge and they are not even doing it themselves!!! LOL

Chihiro77

karmcl wrote: »

Aviva92 wrote: »

it's kinda rude to passive aggressively diss the people on your friends list like this o.p.

It's not my friends on here...it's when I read about someone complaining on a message board thread that they're not losing--and then I look at their exercise log and see they're overestimating. My MFP friends are all awesome.

Anywayzzz I'm kinda done w/ this thread now. It probably wasn't very nice of me to assume, and the replies from you all were not very nice either. Have a great day!

Everyone is taking your post a bit too seriously, some folk just love an argument!

Aviva92

karmcl wrote: »

Is it me, or do people give themselves WAY too much calorie credit for exercise on MFP? I'm an avid runner. I run between 8 & 9 minute miles, and average around 30 miles/week. I give myself credit for about -100 calories per mile. It drives me crazy to read about people claiming to burn 300 calories on a 3.5 mph lesiurely walk, or 700 calories during 30 minues on an elliptical. If it were that easy, I wouldn't run so fast. Thanks for letting me rant. Now please friend me and tell me to stop eating crap. My diary is open to my friends.

actually, mfp gives me less than 100 calories per mile for my run. maybe you're the one who is lying. it gives me 234 calories for a 3 mile run at an 8 minute mile, so 78 calories per mile. gives me 257 calories for a 5 mile walk at 3.5 miles per hour. no idea if that's right or not, but that's what i go with.

Aviva92

karmcl wrote: »

Aviva92 wrote: »

it's kinda rude to passive aggressively diss the people on your friends list like this o.p.

It's not my friends on here...it's when I read about someone complaining on a message board thread that they're not losing--and then I look at their exercise log and see they're overestimating. My MFP friends are all awesome.

Anywayzzz I'm kinda done w/ this thread now. It probably wasn't very nice of me to assume, and the replies from you all were not very nice either. Have a great day!

then when they complain that they are not losing, why not explain to them that it's most likely because they are overestimating exercise calories? why make a rant thread instead? i doubt they know they are doing that. i don't know about the mfp database, but those elliptical machines are notorious for overestimating calories burned. i think that it's a marketing tool or something.