How can I log excercise and not have it affect my calorie allowance for the day?

feministteacher

I went hiking the other day and logged my hike. However, my diary ended up counting my calories from the workout as calories I could consume. I don't want that. How can I adjust this? I've looked over settings, googled, etc. and can't figure it out! Help!

Ready2Rock206

Just change it to 1 or 2 calories earned.

debsdoingthis

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

Just change it to 1 or 2 calories earned.

Yup

dawnna76

or just ignor it and eat the calories you were given at the beginning of the day.

bwogilvie

MFP is based on a NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis) goal, i.e., it sets your calorie target without taking exercise into account. So if you exercise, it adds that to your goal, to keep you from eating too little.

If you don't want to do that, manually change your exercise calories to "1" when you log them on MFP.

feministteacher

OHHH My! Why didn't I think of that? SILLY ME. Thank you!

heathsab

Well, you can either end your day with the deficit from your exercise (there's no rule saying you have to end the day near zero calories remaining), not log your exercise, or not worry about it. If you're going on a long hike, you're burning calories. There's a lot of discussion in these message boards about the merits of "eating back" exercise calories, but as long as your net calorie intake (food minus exercise) is close to your goal net calorie intake, you'll be able to get the deficit and the loss you want. If it really bothers you, I think premium has a way to edit how exercise is added to your daily totals (but I'm a free user, so I wouldn't know). My advice to you in general, from my own experience, though, is that it ends up working out well if you keep your net calories consistent. Of course, if you're only burning 100-200 cals, it's not that big of a change, but if you hiked for several hours and burned a lot of calories, you will may find that you'll need to eat the calories you burned to replenish your glycogen stores and have energy for your next hike

iluvco3

I used to just put it in the "Note" section at the bottom. That way I could track it without it changing the calorie part.

Merkavar

Why don't you want to track exercise and have it adjust your net calories? You could eat a little more after your hike.

There is a reason mfp does that. It's goal is steady sustainable weightloss. More active you are the more you need to eat to keep your deficit at the same amount each day/week.

SergeantSausage

I've run me some 1-calorie 10-milers if you know what I mean, right?