Exercise cals

khans17

I never eat my exercise calories. Is there anyway to not have exercise calories change my dietary goals. For instance, if I'm supposed to have 100g protein and then I work out a bunch, it says I need 160g to meet my goals because it added the exercise cals back in. I like seeing when I've met my normal goals on my diary. Thoughts? Is this something I can alter in settings?

_incogNEATo_

I know it's tough advice to follow, but you should be eating your exercise calories back.

If you don't want to do that though, just ignore that you're not meeting your daily macros.

Spliner1969

You can turn it off. I'm not sure if it's something you can only do on the paid version or not, I subscribed a while back so I have some other options that the free accounts do not. For me it's under Fitness Goals, then you turn it on or off where it says "Adjust my daily calorie goal".

However, if you are going to turn it off, you should head on over to iifym.com, enter your information into their calculator and add in the exercise you're doing, you can be conservative if you want, and let it figure your daily calorie goal. Otherwise if you turn it off and MFP sets you already at a 2lb/week loss and you don't eat back any of those calories you'll lose weight too fast, and it may be unhealthy for you.

wilsoncl6

Only other way, other than a paid account, that I know of is to not log your exercise if you don't plan on eating those calories back. That's really the only reason you add your exercise, so that MFP can add those in to your overall caloric burn to track how much you need to eat in order to continue to lose weight. If you're losing weight without adding in exercise calories, MFP will adjust appropriately. Track your exercise regimen in your notes.