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mommitch
mommitch Posts: 3 Member
in Food and Nutrition
can anyone help me understand how they break things down. Like why does my nitrients say that my carb goal for today is 448?

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  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

    This and other "stickied" threads have a ton of good information to get you up and running. :)
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    diannethegeek wrote: »
    By default, your carb goal is set up as 50% of your calories for the day. Your carb goal is so high because you logged over 2000 calories burned in exercise, which raised your calorie goal and, in turn, raised your carb goal to match.

    That's a LOT of exercise, OP - did you actually burn that much? If so, you need to eat more to fuel that exercise!
  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
    Its very hard for the average person to burn 2000 calories in exercise. My daughter burns that running a Spartan Beast (13 miles with 30 obstacles). You might want to check that calorie burn.

    On another note, I don't put any faith in what MFP gives me in calories burned.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Agreed, I looked at the last week and every day has exercise calories of 900-2100 calories. For most people, that is hours of intense exercise per day. If you don't want to post back on this thread, at least double check that somewhere!
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    Sharon_C wrote: »
    Its very hard for the average person to burn 2000 calories in exercise. My daughter burns that running a Spartan Beast (13 miles with 30 obstacles). You might want to check that calorie burn.

    On another note, I don't put any faith in what MFP gives me in calories burned.

    This. I usually burn about 1000 calories over 7 miles of running with a lot of uphill sections. The only time I ever hit 2000 was during a Tough Mudder (pretty much the same as the Beast). I definitely wouldn't blindly trust the MFP burns - they can overestimate by a lot.
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    edited June 2019
    kimny72 wrote: »
    Agreed, I looked at the last week and every day has exercise calories of 900-2100 calories. For most people, that is hours of intense exercise per day. If you don't want to post back on this thread, at least double check that somewhere!

    I wondered if perhaps the OP had a Fitbit or something that said she'd burned over 2000 during the course of the day, and she thought that needed to be logged as exercise when it was actually TDEE. But if she's logged lower amounts (I didn't look back at other days) then I presume that's not the case. Something's off somewhere.

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