Eating back exercise calories

naturalbeautii
naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
On days I exercise I only want to eat back 50% of my exercise calories. Does the picture above look correct? I might be under little bit.yv2axcsuxroi.jpg

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    edited January 2019
    It would be easier if you just over-wrote the exercise estimate when updating your exercise diary so you get a clear view of your overall day.
    e.g. If you exercise estimate comes up as a suggested 834 then over-write that with 417.

    Lots of people just use the MyFitnessPal exercise headings and amend the estimate using other sources such as apps or formulae.

    Would be interesting to share what are you doing to get the 834cals in the first place.....
  • naturalbeautii
    naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
    edited January 2019
    sijomial wrote: »
    It would be easier if you just over-wrote the exercise estimate when updating your exercise diary so you get a clear view of your overall day.
    e.g. If you exercise estimate comes up as a suggested 834 then over-write that with 417.

    Lots of people just use the MyFitnessPal exercise headings and amend the estimate using other sources such as apps or formulae.

    Would be interesting to share what are you doing to get the 834cals in the first place.....

    The 834 is including calories burned through steps and me manually entering exercise when I go to the gym. I already know these machines overestimate the calories. I just want to make sure on the days I do exercise the picture above is correct? Also, I have the negative adjustment on too.
  • Stockholm_Andy
    Stockholm_Andy Posts: 803 Member
    I rarely eat more than 50%. The apps I use tend to over estimate calories burned IMHO and I'm not a particularly accurate logger. So my burn is my buffer.

    I just keep an eye on the scale and adjust as necessary over time depending if I'm going down or up in relation to my goal at that time.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    naturalbeautii wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    It would be easier if you just over-wrote the exercise estimate when updating your exercise diary so you get a clear view of your overall day.
    e.g. If you exercise estimate comes up as a suggested 834 then over-write that with 417.

    Lots of people just use the MyFitnessPal exercise headings and amend the estimate using other sources such as apps or formulae.

    Would be interesting to share what are you doing to get the 834cals in the first place.....

    The 834 is including calories burned through steps and me manually entering exercise when I go to the gym. I already know these machines overestimate the calories. I just want to make sure on the days I do exercise the picture above is correct? Also, I have the negative adjustment on too.

    My point is why enter numbers manually that you then have to mentally remember to halve to get a clear idea of your daily balance?
    Just enter 50% of whatever numbers you believe are inflated in the first place.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    naturalbeautii wrote: »
    On days I exercise I only want to eat back 50% of my exercise calories. Does the picture above look correct? I might be under little bit.yv2axcsuxroi.jpg

    Yep, taking things at face value, it looks reasonable. There are lots of ways to manage all this, and if this approach works for you (logging all calories burned but only eating a portion back), then go for it. That's not the way my brain works, so it's not for me... but there's no reason it can't work for you.
  • naturalbeautii
    naturalbeautii Posts: 72 Member
    edited January 2019
    sijomial wrote: »
    naturalbeautii wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    It would be easier if you just over-wrote the exercise estimate when updating your exercise diary so you get a clear view of your overall day.
    e.g. If you exercise estimate comes up as a suggested 834 then over-write that with 417.

    Lots of people just use the MyFitnessPal exercise headings and amend the estimate using other sources such as apps or formulae.

    Would be interesting to share what are you doing to get the 834cals in the first place.....

    The 834 is including calories burned through steps and me manually entering exercise when I go to the gym. I already know these machines overestimate the calories. I just want to make sure on the days I do exercise the picture above is correct? Also, I have the negative adjustment on too.

    My point is why enter numbers manually that you then have to mentally remember to halve to get a clear idea of your daily balance?
    Just enter 50% of whatever numbers you believe are inflated in the first place.

    Ok I understand what your saying. It does make sense to just log in half and not all the calories. I will start doing that from now on.
  • Strudders67
    Strudders67 Posts: 989 Member
    I log in half my exercise time. What MFP thinks I burn on the cross trainer (elliptical) is not what the machine in the gym tells me. As the machine knows the intensity and speed I was doing, that's likely to be more accurate. As I want to check my Net Calories are on target but don't want to be mentally adjusting calories and don't know how to adjust the calories for an exercise and wouldn't always remember how many calories the machine stated, I log half the time that I actually exercised. This way, I can eat back all the calories allocated and my Net Calories no longer look like I'm seriously under-eating.

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