Rounding up your calories

ElJefeChief

I think always instituting a practice of deliberately and consciously trying to overestimate calorie intake and underestimate calorie burns is a smart way to go.

Evolution is smart. Even when we're deliberately trying to 'diet' (e.g., portion control and increase exercise output) many of us can swear up and down we're at a calorie deficit, and be logging food and exercise in great detail, and yet in the end still be eating at a surplus. I see posts like that all the time here and on some of the other diet sites I've frequented (e.g., "I've done everything I can and still don't lose weight") - with people sometimes getting so mystified or discouraged that they give up and tell themselves they can't lose weight because of "conditions" or their "metabolism" or "genetics" or whatnot.

Successful weight loss is really a matter of working against one of the most ingrained evolutionary drives there is.

Francl27

BWBTrish wrote: »

i rather log as accurate as possible. Because i want to know what and how much nutrition's i get...second...left over calories to to .>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ICE CREAMMMMMMMMMMM

Pretty much this for me too, lol.

janejellyroll

atypicalsmith wrote: »

I always overestimate calories eaten, and underestimate calories burned. Because I truly believe that there is no way to know EXACTLY how much calories eaten or burned through exercise is. Fitbit? Not if you put in the wrong information, as in saying you are sedentary when you actually work at Walmart stocking shelves. Everything is an estimate. As long as I over estimate calories consumed and underestimate calories burned, it works. When I read that "so-and-so burned 1,196 calories doing cardio, including running, for 93 minutes", I think, huh??? That's an hour and a half. How can ANYONE possibly burn that many calories in an hour and a half???

But that's working for me, and I'm not here complaining that I'm doing everything right but not losing weight.

Fitbit records your actual steps (and sometimes your heart rate), so if you put in the wrong information, you will still get an accurate step count.

Timelordlady85

Id rather over estimate the calories then under and I've lost 51 pounds so far. I don't weigh things like my individual wraps or yogurts but I do weigh pretty much everything else I eat.

ASKyle

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, especially if you happen to overstate a calorie burn from exercise, it would make up for it.

If it works for you, DO IT! No matter what we say on the boards!