Calorie Counting

sammycrowley16

Hi all, I’m struggling to find out what my rest days calorie intake should be compared to my active days as I believe this app has only given my overall average calories and not taken into account my rest days and active days!
Any help on how I can find those out, please?

Lietchi

What do you mean with rest days and active days? The way MFP is intended to be used is to log exercise separately (not included in your activity level) which will automatically give you more calories on days when you exercise.

janejellyroll

MFP intends for you to log your exercise and eat back the calories burnt. In this way, your rest/active days are automatically adjusted for. Your default base calorie goal is what you should eat if you aren't doing any additional activity.

Make sure you've set up your account with your activity level being your everyday activity level before exercise to ensure you aren't "double dipping."

AnnPT77

janejellyroll wrote: »

MFP intends for you to log your exercise and eat back the calories burnt. In this way, your rest/active days are automatically adjusted for. Your default base calorie goal is what you should eat if you aren't doing any additional activity.

Make sure you've set up your account with your activity level being your everyday activity level before exercise to ensure you aren't "double dipping."

This. You should set your MFP activity level based on daily-life movement (job, chores, non-exercise hobbies), before any exercise. Then MFP will give you a calorie goal estimate that is before exercise, with the weight loss/gain/maintenance already built in. So, MFP would give you your rest day calories, in effect.

Then, when you do exercise, estimate those calories, log them separately, and eat them back (or a reasonable percentage of them, at least). That would be your active day calories, for that specific day.