HOW DO YOU TURN OFF EXERCISE CALORIES BURNED?

EttaMaeMartin

I just want to focus on food intake. i don't want exercise calories figured in. i do not want to eat them back. help please?

malibu927

You have to purchase MFP Premium to have that option, or just not log exercise or record it as 1 calorie. If you're following MFP's calorie goals, however, you're expected to eat those calories back.

amandarawr06

I would just enter 0 calories burned when you put your exercises in...

Ready2Rock206

Just don't log it? However you should set a higher calorie goal then to account for the fact you're not eating them back.

riffraff2112

I just enter a low calorie burn. Or pay for the premium

cerise_noir

Either log as 1 calorie burned, or pre-prelog your food the night before and stick to it without bothering to eat back what you've burned.

MFP was designed so that you eat a portion of your burned calories, though.

Machka9

Don't log your exercise.

But also, unless you're exercising very little, you should be eating some of your exercise calories back.

jdog022

use a TDEE calculator and over ride the mfp calories and then do not use mfp to track any exercises. But like the above says.. dont use mfp (NEAT) and not eat back half the exercise cals..youll be to low. TDEE will have exercise included in the calc already

everher

After I finish my workout I quick add calories to match the amount of calories I burned through workout. I like seeing my calories burned and I like keeping a track of how much I exercised per day, but I have zero interest in eating those calories back.

I don't work out tremendously hard and I exercise, in part, to create a larger deficit.

My situation is thus though: I have MFP set to lose a pound a week, but I would really like to lose 1.5 lbs a week and I am still obese at this point so it's not an unrealistic goal.

However, I feel that calorie goal is too low for me. I eat at the one pound a week loss calorie intake and the other half of a pound comes from my exercise that I don't eat back.

If I had MFP set to the 1.5 lbs a week loss setting and ate back my exercise calories I would eat about a hundred calories more than I do now on the days I work out.

BUT on the days I don't exercise I wouldn't have as many calories as I do now (250 less calories) which I would find annoying. Most likely, I would have calories left from previous days I could use, but I just don't want to have to be bothered with keeping track of that.

I also don't eat my exercise calories back because I know my logging isn't always accurate. I'll have take out meals that I don't know the nutritional value of (I rarely go to chains) or eat someone else's cooking and I'll know I'm only guesstimating. I leave those calories to make up for that.

Sheena422

If this isn't what your meaning than I'm sorry but... I didn't want my daily goals to increase when I entered a workout ... so If you have the premium you can click explore premium and choose exercise settings and it will give you the option to turn on or off if it increases your goals when exercise in entered. I hope that helps.

CattOfTheGarage

If you don't want to eat back exercise, don't use mfp's default calorie goals - they don't include exercise calories, so if you don't eat back exercise, they will be too low. Mfp uses the NEAT method, based on eating back exercise. What you are doing is the TDEE method, and what you need is a TDEE calorie goal. There are lots of online calculators which will do this for you and you can then enter the TDEE goal manually into Mfp.

If you don't want Mfp to add exercise calories to your goal, you need to stop logging exercise in Mfp. You're asking it to do two conflicting things - log your exercise, but don't log your exercise. If you want to keep an exercise diary for your own records, use a different app.

PaigeyVK

It may require a paid subscription but the instructions are as follows:

PC:
Go to "MY HOME" tab
Click on "Goals"
Scroll down to "Fitness"
Click "Edit"
Click the pull down next to "Adjust my daily calorie goal" and select "off"

Mobile:
Tap "more"
Tap "Goals"
Tap "Exercise Calories"
Toggle off the "Increase my daily calorie goal" option

Lounmoun

Easiest thing to do is to just not log exercise here.
If you have an activity tracker synced with mfp you should unsync it I guess.

AriahKitsune

EttaMaeMartin wrote: »

I just want to focus on food intake. i don't want exercise calories figured in. i do not want to eat them back. help please?

Completely agree. Sadly, this feature is paywalled. Presumably because that helps MyFitnessPal advertise that you are x% more likely to lose weight using the premium version. Which I agree is true, if only because the app itself is no longer nudging your calorie allowance up/completely invalidating your exercise.

Lietchi

AriahKitsune wrote: »

EttaMaeMartin wrote: »

I just want to focus on food intake. i don't want exercise calories figured in. i do not want to eat them back. help please?

Completely agree. Sadly, this feature is paywalled. Presumably because that helps MyFitnessPal advertise that you are x% more likely to lose weight using the premium version. Which I agree is true, if only because the app itself is no longer nudging your calorie allowance up/completely invalidating your exercise.

It doesn't invalidate your exercise. Or is your sole purpose for exercising to burn calories?
Also, I lost all of my weight (60lbs do far) eating back every delicious exercise calorie MFP/my fitness tracker gave me.

If eating back exercise calories is hindering your weight loss:
- the exercise burns might be inflated
- your overall calorie burn might not be as high as MFP thinks (for example a lower BMR than the statistical average for your gender and agree)
- your calories intake might be higher than you think (for example because your not weighing your food)
These are issues that require adaptation of your strategy, not blanket statements that exercise calories shouldn't be eaten back or that eating back exercise calories is 'invalidating' that exercise.
The above if you're using MFP as intended of course, it's a moot point when getting a calorie goal from a TDEE calculator, that that number already includes exercise.

PS: this is an old thread you resurrected.

janejellyroll

AriahKitsune wrote: »

EttaMaeMartin wrote: »

I just want to focus on food intake. i don't want exercise calories figured in. i do not want to eat them back. help please?

Completely agree. Sadly, this feature is paywalled. Presumably because that helps MyFitnessPal advertise that you are x% more likely to lose weight using the premium version. Which I agree is true, if only because the app itself is no longer nudging your calorie allowance up/completely invalidating your exercise.

This doesn't make sense on multiple levels.

First, since your calorie goal from MFP assumes you won't be doing any exercise, eating at a level appropriate for someone who is exercising isn't "invalidating" your exercise, but ensuring that you're properly fueling it.

Second, it's completely free for people to ignore their adjustments and choose to eat like someone who isn't doing exercise.

mdougieg5657

Gotta pay for the premium. But I found a way around it. My apple watch was automatically syncing my workouts to my myfitnesspal app. I went to the far right side of myfitnesspal app and selected steps, and it was linked to my apple watch and iphone. If you select "dont track steps" it won't sync to any devices and it will leave exercise out of the daily log. If you manually log a workout, it will add to diary. I hope this helps!

NorthCascades

Stop exercising?

NorthCascades

mdougieg5657 wrote: »

Gotta pay for the premium. But I found a way around it. My apple watch was automatically syncing my workouts to my myfitnesspal app. I went to the far right side of myfitnesspal app and selected steps, and it was linked to my apple watch and iphone. If you select "dont track steps" it won't sync to any devices and it will leave exercise out of the daily log. If you manually log a workout, it will add to diary. I hope this helps!

What is the point of syncing your steps and exercise here if not for calories?

Beverly2Hansen

I don't log my calories burned on MFP I customized my goals and increased my activity level to active and by doing this I avoid paying premium and I am steadily losing weight. The other option is to customize your exercises and list them as 1 calorie burned.

DJPP42

The easiest thing to do is to stop MFP from reading the exercise in the first place. For Apple, go into health, apps, scroll down to MFP, untick its ability to read steps, workouts etc. Boom, zero exercise calories.

paperpudding

OP asked this question 6 years ago.