Exercise calories?

TavistockToad

Gisel2015 wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

xxzenabxx wrote: »

Floatingpencil wrote: »

Roughly 50% - I find that MapMyWalk (and pretty much any other walking app I've tried) overestimates. I'd argue it massively overestimates, though my settings are correct.

So I usually eat back about 50%, but if it makes sense, I give myself the option to eat them all. My calorie goal is set lower than some people have advised me, the theory being that if my exercise calories are overestimated it mostly puts me back where some people would have set me in the first place - only I had to go out walking to earn those extras. It's convoluted I suppose, but makes sense to me. I'm not too concerned what rate I lose weight at, so long as the scale continues to go down.

Mostly I find I don't eat them all back though - it just gives me enough for some chocolate in the evening which is all I usually want, since I generally save enough calories for a satisfying evening meal anyway!

Oh no I’ve been eating back ALL of my MapMyWalk calories back. It said I burn 300 calories from my walk so that’s where I’ve been going wrong. I’ve been overeating by overestimating my exercise calories. Thanks for pointing that out!

Mapmywalk MASSIVELY overestimated calories burnt.

Walking is bodyweight in lbs x 0.3 x distance in miles

Yes, I noticed that long time ago. I only use the app to calculate the distance, no calories.

I have a few pals who log running with map my run, i have a good laugh at the calorie counts!

sijomial

xxzenabxx wrote: »

Floatingpencil wrote: »

Roughly 50% - I find that MapMyWalk (and pretty much any other walking app I've tried) overestimates. I'd argue it massively overestimates, though my settings are correct.

So I usually eat back about 50%, but if it makes sense, I give myself the option to eat them all. My calorie goal is set lower than some people have advised me, the theory being that if my exercise calories are overestimated it mostly puts me back where some people would have set me in the first place - only I had to go out walking to earn those extras. It's convoluted I suppose, but makes sense to me. I'm not too concerned what rate I lose weight at, so long as the scale continues to go down.

Mostly I find I don't eat them all back though - it just gives me enough for some chocolate in the evening which is all I usually want, since I generally save enough calories for a satisfying evening meal anyway!

Oh no I’ve been eating back ALL of my MapMyWalk calories back. It said I burn 300 calories from my walk so that’s where I’ve been going wrong. I’ve been overeating by overestimating my exercise calories. Thanks for pointing that out!

That's the lightbulb moment when you realise that eating back your exercise calories is very different to eating back a dreadfully exaggerated estimate of exercise calories.
People often put too much faith in apps and devices without understanding their functionality and limitations.

A better question than "How many exercise calories does everyone eat back? 50%, 75% or 100%?" would be....
This is my exercise routine .......
Can people advise how best to get reasonable estimates?

Taking random percentages off bad estimates is really flawed, better to make the estimates reasonably accurate in the first place.