Exercise calories

murali2227
murali2227 Posts: 3 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Not sure if this is a dumb question. When I created my profile I have already included the fact that I work out for 'x' no. of minutes 5 times a week blah blah and after that pops out the magic number of calories to be consumed.
Now when I actually log in the exercise, MFP adds extra food calories to ingest based on the exercise! Isnt that duplicating or am I missing something here?

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  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    No, you listed your activity level. When you log your exercise, that's different. You should eat back most (if not all) of those exercise calories.
  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    When you set up your profile and added in the exercise you will do that is not accounted for in your daily calorie amount. It is planned exercise and it's not added to your calorie goal until you actually add it to your exercise diary. You can go in and change your planned exercise to none and it will be the same amount of calories as if you were planning on exercising 5 days a week for 1 hrs each time.
  • murali2227
    murali2227 Posts: 3 Member
    Thanks a bunch, Makes sense.

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