Calories and exercise

antonina395
antonina395 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 23 in Health and Weight Loss
The two main problems i am having right now is i am not eating the 1200 calories that mfp says i should and their is a different between the calories my elliptical says i am burning and mfp says i am burning its off by like 300 calories. The elliptical says i am burning less than mfp. What to do

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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    I would believe the elliptical over mfp.

    Partly because it's propably more precise. Like in mfp does elliptical have different speeds? Or is it defined as moderate or light etc vague term.

    Partly because it's probably best to under than over estimate exercise
  • ibnfaqir
    ibnfaqir Posts: 139 Member
    Elliptical says I burned 500. MFP says I burned 588. Give or take a 100 calories. Go with the elliptical but understand that is also a rough estimate.
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    Whichever you go with remember that both of them have a reputation for over estimating - many people eat back 50-80% of their exercise calories to make up for this.
  • whiteblossom14
    whiteblossom14 Posts: 240 Member
    MFP was over estimating my calories I was burning by nearly double. I do eat into my calories burned if I need to. But just don't eat them all back. As previously posted eat back half
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