your wish has been granted (you can now opt to not add back exercise calories to your goals)

callsitlikeiseeit
callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
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.
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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    I don't see where you're talking about.
  • abetterluke
    abetterluke Posts: 625 Member
    Me either I went and looked and couldn't find it
  • Looncove_Farm
    Looncove_Farm Posts: 115 Member
    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.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    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 things
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
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    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?
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    im not on the phone app.

    on mine theres an edit button there, and thats where i can see all of it
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    No edit button on mine (PC). Goals section is the same as it's been for 3 years.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    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?
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    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 options
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    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 LOL
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    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)
  • MrsMizart
    MrsMizart Posts: 1,275 Member
    I got all excited then! Sadly on checking it seems I'm not yet in the special group :-} Something to look forward to :-)
  • Keiko385
    Keiko385 Posts: 514 Member
    Maybe MFP is actually listening to what many of its users want. I kind of like seeing them there just for reference.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    Now, if they could clean up the database..... LOLOLOLOLOLOL
  • sweetteadrinker2
    sweetteadrinker2 Posts: 1,026 Member
    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 :p
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    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 :p

    I don't add exercise calories until I'm finished eating for the day.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    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.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    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 :p

    You can override the calories to 0
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Keiko385 wrote: »
    Maybe MFP is actually listening to what many of its users want. I kind of like seeing them there just for reference.
    If MFP listened to users, we'd have the ignore feature back.
  • abetterluke
    abetterluke Posts: 625 Member
    pics or it didn't happen
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    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.
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    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 :p

    There's no math. You know your daily goal, so you just eat to that amount regardless of what's been added.

  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    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 anyway
  • sweetteadrinker2
    sweetteadrinker2 Posts: 1,026 Member
    Dnarules 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 :p

    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.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited April 2015
    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 :p

    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.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    zyxst wrote: »
    6tkpugckphes.png
    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?

    How do you get to this screen? I can't seem to find it.

    Thank you!
  • aaliceinw
    aaliceinw Posts: 747 Member
    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.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    aaliceinw wrote: »
    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

  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    aaliceinw wrote: »
    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 IF
  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    pics or it didn't happen
    That's what I'm thinking
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