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Best Calorie Counter..

Badeel1
Badeel1 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Hi guys! I've been using MFP for about 10 days so far and I'm just a little bit confused about calories countung when it comes to exercise.. what's the best calorie counter you would recommend? There's too many out there to choose from

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,158 Member
    edited March 2017
    The best way to get calorie burn is from a heart rate monitor really, anything else is based on gender/weight/height and whilst it can be accurate for one person, it can be totally inaccurate for another.

    Your best bet if you don't have a HR Monitor is to use the database entries/link your phone pedometer and work on the basis of 50% being an accurate figure for 4 weeks or so, if at the end of the 4 weeks you're losing at the rate you specified in your MFP settings then stick at 50%, if you're losing faster eat more back, if you're losing slower eat less back.

    Above advice is based on accurate food logging also.
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