Exercise Diary?

Brandi92809

Hey! I was wondering if you dont add exercise that you did to your diary if that is a good idea or not? I dont add my exercise and hope it wont mess me up later o.O Thanks!

CincyNeid

It's a good idea to eat back a portion of your burned calories. Based on that fact alone... I'd log it.... So you know how much to eat back

malibu927

It depends. MFP is meant for you to eat back at least a portion of your exercise calories. You may lose faster not logging it, but you also may stand to lose more muscle and/or not give your body enough fuel. If your exercise is consistent, you may want to consider using a TDEE calculator to figure out how much to eat including exercise calories, which then you would not need to log.

Wolfena

you can always add the exercise to track it, but change the calories burned to zero (or whatever lesser amount you choose)

Brandi92809

Thanks everyone! I will add it and see what happens

STEVE142142

I never log exercises to my mfp log. in my opinion MFP gives average that are based on a large population pool. Everybody's going to exercise at different intensity levels.

During my weight loss process I never lock the exercises. It help me lose the weight a little quicker I'd say out of the 80 pounds I lost maybe 10 pounds were due to exercise. After I went into maintenance I probably lost another 12 pounds trying to figure out my maintenance work vs activity level.

Remember use mfp as a guide. It's not the Bible. Part of the process of being successful with this is educating yourself learning it's like going to school. Good luck in your journey

BasicGreatGuy

MFP (as a whole) is not accurate with the caloric tallying. As such, I would be very cautious about putting any real significance behind the number(s) you may see.

CincyNeid

BasicGreatGuy wrote: »

MFP (as a whole) is not accurate with the caloric tallying. As such, I would be very cautious about putting any real significance behind the number(s) you may see.

Endomondo, Strava, Garmin Connect, Fitbit, Polar, Moove, S-Health, iHealth, and even MyFitnessPal .... all of those use different Caloric burn logarithms to factor what you're burning. None of them are accurate. The trick is pick one use it for a few weeks and see what happens with your scale/fitness and adjust accordingly.

leanjogreen18

I don't eat my exercise calories yet. I have a large fat storage that keeps me fueled so far. If I start experiencing fatigue then I will re think it.

Brandi92809

Thanks so much everyone!