Calories Burned Daily by Body

Nysportsred

I have always been a little confused by this. I am 5'10, 188.6 pounds. I have lost 46-48 (depending on the week it seems) since starting here.

I have set my daily calories here at 2080. I have seen on different sites that calculate daily calories burned by the body alone, that I can go to between 2100 and 2350 and still lose and I can also go between 2500-2730 and still maintain my weight. (Every site I have gone to has had a wide range of numbers so I have averaged them out here)

The sites also say my body burns between 1800-2250 calories (averaging the site totals) a day on its own.

My question is if I am at, for arguments sake, 2300 calories here one day and I am 220 over, but my body have burned 1800 on it's own how does that factor in with the calories we put in on MFP?

** I hope that made some sense to everyone- even writing it I got confused **

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MFP automatically factors in the calories you burn just living life, and you add your workout burns manually. That's why when you first start out you tell it stuff like your age, height, weight and general activity level and it takes a guess. So if MFP says you're over by 220, that means you're over by 220 unless you went to the gym and didn't log it.

Nysportsred

Thats close to what I thought lol. Thank you.

JeromeBarry1

And, really, walking around the house or the job, which most folks don't log but which users of fitness tracks do, burns as many exercise calories in a workday as most 20-minute cardio sessions.