Science and math for weight loss
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Don't get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE using myfitnesspal but it overestimates how many calories you burn for activities. Before I got my heart rate monitor, I thought "Wow, I'm burning a lot of calories." Once I got my HRM, I noticed that I was only burning about half the amount of calories that MFP was saying I burned. So, I think some people just automatically use the amount that MFP says they burned when in actuality they probably only burned half that amount.0
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Besides the estimates being a little wonky, it is easy to accidentally double them up filling out your info. People select something above sedentary even though their job is sedentary because they exercise and don't think of themselves as sedentary. That bumps TDEE up. Then they log each exercise with what are often inflated numbers and that bumps up the daily calorie allotment. Then all it takes is forgetting to log a food or going over the serving size used for the entry and you can end up eating surplus calories while the diary is showing a deficit.0
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