New on my fitness pal and trying to figure it all out

poscur

Hi I am 50 yr old and new to fitness pal. I had previous been on bodymedia.com but they discontinued their service so I am trying to get used to using this. I had been very heavy and lost 65lbs sound 5 years ago. I vowed I would not go back but find my weight creeping up 5 lbs at a time. I know logging my food and exercise is how I did it the first time; there is no magic! So here I am back and going to hold myself accountable. I find entering exercise hard on this website. It seems to me the value they put on exercise in terms of amount of calories burned is excessive. I took cross-fit class 45 minutes, leisurely walking while shopping, 20 minutes on elliptical and came up with a value of over 900 calories..not reasonable. Anyone else find this or am I somehow entering things wrong? thanks and look forward to finding some "buddies" to share the journey with!

michaela4910

Hi, welcome and feel free to add me.

I have only used MFP to figure my calories and I usually eat workout calories back and I'm losing weight.

schughes48

I do not use MFP to figure my calories burned. I use what my elliptical says, because I find that more accurate. When I am doing aerobics or something other than my elliptical I will take MFP as its word.

MostlyWater

We have an Over 50 group if you're interested.

seska422

Many people have found the MFP calorie burn amounts to be excessive. The general recommendation is to only eat back about 50% of the calories shown.

poscur

thanks all...helpful info.