Accurate calorie loss?

rhsdancer5
rhsdancer5 Posts: 96 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
When you exercise do you log it according to the calories MFP tells you that your burned or the machine (the ones that tell you)? I don't know which is more accurate? There usually isn't a huge difference but 15/20 calories can add up! Thank you!

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  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Pick the lowest estimate. Even then it's likely inflated.

    Many people here eat back 50-75% of exercise calories & then adjust that number up or down (over time) depending upon actual progress. Pick one number give it a few weeks. Then adjust it.
  • Tweaking_Time
    Tweaking_Time Posts: 733 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    Pick the lowest estimate. Even then it's likely inflated.

    Many people here eat back 50-75% of exercise calories & then adjust that number up or down (over time) depending upon actual progress. Pick one number give it a few weeks. Then adjust it.

    I disagree about he calories being "always" inflated. I often find them the be grossly underestimated as well depending on the exercise and how hard I hit it.

    However...

    The best way to figure it out more accurately is with a heart rate monitor (HRM).
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