your wish has been granted (you can now opt to not add back exercise calories to your goals)
callsitlikeiseeit
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so.... in case you haven't noticed... you can now opt to NOT add back your exercise calories automatically into your goals (and... other things too - go look around in the goals section)
i like to eat them so it makes no difference to ME but i see a lot of people who dont want them added to their calories for the day.... now, you have that option.
i like to eat them so it makes no difference to ME but i see a lot of people who dont want them added to their calories for the day.... now, you have that option.
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I don't see where you're talking about.0
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Me either I went and looked and couldn't find it0
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I tihnk when I get to maintainence I will want them, but currently trying to lose 46 lbs so I need to leave em out. TY for the information.0
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i dont know how to post a pic. when i click on goals, then fitness goals.... theres a place where it says 'when i log an exercise' and then 'adjust my daily calorie goal' and is a 'on' or 'off' box
so,.... im ASSUMING thats what this will do? i havent tested it. i did however try to change my macro percentages and it wouldnt let me SAVE the changes, so i think they are tinkering with things0 -
Is that info in the blue box what you're talking about? I don't see anywhere to opt out of adding exercise calories. Is it something special for the phone app?0 -
im not on the phone app.
on mine theres an edit button there, and thats where i can see all of it0 -
No edit button on mine (PC). Goals section is the same as it's been for 3 years.0
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I don't see what you're talking about. when you edit the goals that Zyxst linked to, you can set goals for minutes per workout and calories burned.
Maybe they're rolling something out, one group of profiles at a time?0 -
see, mine doesnt look like the above- similar but not the same. i have an edit button and when i click on that i get more options0
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barbecuesauce wrote: »I don't see what you're talking about. when you edit the goals that Zyxst linked to, you can set goals for minutes per workout and calories burned.
Maybe they're rolling something out, one group of profiles at a time?
they must be. will be cool when its all out and functional!!! wish i knew how to post a pic, i would show you what *I* see LOL0 -
oh fiddling more... youll be able to have different DAILY goals too (is that something new- ive never tinkered around enough to know for sure, but i dont remember seeing it before)0
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I got all excited then! Sadly on checking it seems I'm not yet in the special group :-} Something to look forward to :-)0
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Maybe MFP is actually listening to what many of its users want. I kind of like seeing them there just for reference.0
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Now, if they could clean up the database..... LOLOLOLOLOLOL0
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I don't have it yet, I want it, soon. I'd love the ability....I hate those calories showing up on the phone app because I don't eat them back and hate doing the math
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sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I don't have it yet, I want it, soon. I'd love the ability....I hate those calories showing up on the phone app because I don't eat them back and hate doing the math
I don't add exercise calories until I'm finished eating for the day.0 -
I still don't see anything that wasn't always there. Regardless, we've always been able to chose whether or not we eat our exercise calories.0
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sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I don't have it yet, I want it, soon. I'd love the ability....I hate those calories showing up on the phone app because I don't eat them back and hate doing the math
You can override the calories to 00 -
pics or it didn't happen0
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »oh fiddling more... youll be able to have different DAILY goals too (is that something new- ive never tinkered around enough to know for sure, but i dont remember seeing it before)
YES PLEASE.0 -
sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I don't have it yet, I want it, soon. I'd love the ability....I hate those calories showing up on the phone app because I don't eat them back and hate doing the math
There's no math. You know your daily goal, so you just eat to that amount regardless of what's been added.
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can't u just not log exorcise if your not gonna eat back the calories? seems like the simplest option esp if MFP over estimates calories burned anyway0
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sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I don't have it yet, I want it, soon. I'd love the ability....I hate those calories showing up on the phone app because I don't eat them back and hate doing the math
There's no math. You know your daily goal, so you just eat to that amount regardless of what's been added.
On the android app my jawbone adds calories and the app shows calories remaining, with those cals added. I would like it to just show my remaining without adding the cals. It's the little things I guess.0 -
sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I don't have it yet, I want it, soon. I'd love the ability....I hate those calories showing up on the phone app because I don't eat them back and hate doing the math
Why not change the total to one calorie. That's what I do. (I use the TDEE method.) That's also how I used to do it when I lowered the estimates.
Edit: Oh, I see about Jawbone. When I switched to TDEE method I un-synced Fitbit, because there's no reason to connect them if you aren't eating the calories, IMO.0 -
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I'm not sure I understand why MFP would have to add an option to opt out of Including exercise calories. Surely If you don't want to eat back exercise calories, you simply don't add them in the first place? And you don't synch the devices.0
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I'm not sure I understand why MFP would have to add an option to opt out of Including exercise calories. Surely If you don't want to eat back exercise calories, you simply don't add them in the first place? And you don't synch the devices.
You want your total calorie burn posted on the newsfeed and therefore communicate your effort to your MFPals but don't want to adjust your daily calories (which may already account for exercise)
You want to be able to see how many miles you walked/ran without needing to manually adjust the entries all the time
Similar for people who have step counters linked to their account. It would provide one location for viewing this info, again without needing to adjust the calorie count back down each time
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I'm not sure I understand why MFP would have to add an option to opt out of Including exercise calories. Surely If you don't want to eat back exercise calories, you simply don't add them in the first place? And you don't synch the devices.
You want your total calorie burn posted on the newsfeed and therefore communicate your effort to your MFPals but don't want to adjust your daily calories (which may already account for exercise)
You want to be able to see how many miles you walked/ran without needing to manually adjust the entries all the time
Similar for people who have step counters linked to their account. It would provide one location for viewing this info, again without needing to adjust the calorie count back down each time
^^^ this. Also the ability to set different goal s on different days and would be very useful and avoid having to do some work around especially for those who do IF0 -
That's what I'm thinkingabetterluke wrote: »pics or it didn't happen
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