Tracking output: by exercise kcal burn or by a TDEE total each day?

lyndajbowyer

Hi MFPers

Just a thought - do you track your fitness by tallying individual caloric burn on each exercise or simply rack up the TDEE as recorded by your fitness tracker every 24hr period? I ask because my method of losing fat isn't 'food goal' orientated as the MFP user interface seems to be, but rather preferring to work on keeping a consistency in my caloric deficit. If I try to track via TDEE the arbitrary goal you have to set for food intake seems to skew the data.

MFP tends to work on Goal - Food + Exercise = remaining (deficit/surplus)

whereas for fatloss I prefer to work on a simpler method of:

Food - TDEE = deficit

Tips on how to perhaps set up my MFP to reflect my easier method (or whether to just ditch MFP altogether and go back to manual tracking keeping a spreadsheet) welcomed.

TIA.

Lynda

cmriverside

If your device is synced with MFP correctly it does the calculation for you.

Or, you can set your own calorie goal under Settings and then input the data manually.

lorrpb

The calculation would actually be TDEE - food = deficit 😎