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Exercise/calorie burning info
RAC56
Posts: 432 Member
Hi folks, does anyone have a good link to easy to access exercise/calorie burning info? Several times I've tried to use the MFP exercise info but I couldn't find what I needed there. TIA
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You can create new ones if what you are looking for doesn't exist...I don't eat back exercise calories, so while I track minutes and what exercise, I'm not ever double checking the calories MFP has listed.0
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Speaking as one who lived by the motto of "I will work out as much as I have to in order to eat what I want, when I want and how much I want," I will say I find little value in tracking exercise when it comes to weight management. I have been maintaining weight at where I was back in when I played 9th grade football in 1985 for the last year or so and for the year or so before that which was during the time I was getting back down to that.
During much of that time, I was tracking all my food and using the Fitbit syncing option to measure exercise. I found the "exercise calories" did not really line up. Two phrases I have learned recently seem to bee quite accurate:
1. You can't out exercise a bad diet.
2. You lose pounds in the kitchen and ounces at the gym.
That said, I would recommend exercise for the numerous benefits but not for weight loss. I would also recommend not adjusting your caloric intake based on how many calories you burned from exercise (assuming you figure out a way to accurately track them).
In case you are interested, I peaked at 223 lbs in 2012 and very slowly lost that through very modest calorie cutting to just over 200 in 2015. Then I started cutting carbs instead of calories and lost the rest down to 190 fairly easily. When I went keto last August, I unintentionally dropped to 175 (which was too light) within about 6 weeks. I have been maintaining around 185 for the since last September/October.1 -
Well, about a month ago I finally started experiencing the keto energy everyone talks about.
I increased my exercising and on top of that I've been painting rooms in my house. Before the energy increase I was maintaining my maintenance goal but now I can't keep my weight up. I like to stay around 113lbs and I'm at 111 which is too low for me. I guess painting rooms is more calorie burning than I thought. I hadn't even considered that as exercise but I move along at a pretty fast pace. Man, am I loving the energy or what? YES I am! 2 -
Ah, thank you!1
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