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amandachristinefelker
amandachristinefelker Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
is there a way that when you log a workout and calories burned it doesnt make your calorie intake for the day increase? i want to stick to my calorie goal and i dont plan on adding more calories just because i did a workout.

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  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    Change the calories burned to 1 or just write your workouts in the notes section
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,376 Member
    Mfp is designed for you to eat back some of those exercise calories. If you don't you risk having too large of a deficit. It shows Goal - food + exercise = remaining, so if you want to just look at the food number you can. A lot of people just eat back about 50% of the exercise calories.
  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
    When I log the workout, I change the calories burned to half of what it states. I hope I'm doing it the right way to eat back half my exercise calories.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    elaineamj wrote: »
    When I log the workout, I change the calories burned to half of what it states. I hope I'm doing it the right way to eat back half my exercise calories.

    If you are using MFP settings....yes, this is correct. MFP calorie burns can be too generous.

    Some people don't like the up/down of workout vs. rest days. They will plug their stats into another program that includes exercise (TDEE less a percent). This averages the exercise over a week. Using this method they would over ride the calorie burns to 1.
  • amandachristinefelker
    amandachristinefelker Posts: 2 Member
    thanks everyone :)
  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    just log your workouts as one calorie MFP gives way to many calories for workouts
  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
    If you don't want to exercise calories to count, I believe there was a setting in your profile so that it doesn't add to your available food calories. I think I saw that today.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    elaineamj wrote: »
    If you don't want to exercise calories to count, I believe there was a setting in your profile so that it doesn't add to your available food calories. I think I saw that today.

    That's a feature of the Premium membership which costs money.
  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
    3dogsrunning wrote: »
    elaineamj wrote: »
    If you don't want to exercise calories to count, I believe there was a setting in your profile so that it doesn't add to your available food calories. I think I saw that today.

    That's a feature of the Premium membership which costs money.

    Good to know :) I didn't try clicking on it.

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