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Option to eat back a percentage of exercise calories
JLG1986
Posts: 212 Member
I would like to see a feature where you choose what percentage or fraction of exercise calories to target eating back. For me, the toggle on/off switch isn’t very helpful.
I find that exercise calorie estimates are quite high…so I’m left choosing between eating back only some of them, being under my calorie target and seeing wildly optimistic weight loss projections (or none at all, if the app thinks my net is too low) OR the alternative of turning off the feature and always appearing to be over my calorie goal. When I’m losing weight consistently, eating back half my exercise seems to work - it would be great if I could set up my goals in app to show that target!
Thanks!
I find that exercise calorie estimates are quite high…so I’m left choosing between eating back only some of them, being under my calorie target and seeing wildly optimistic weight loss projections (or none at all, if the app thinks my net is too low) OR the alternative of turning off the feature and always appearing to be over my calorie goal. When I’m losing weight consistently, eating back half my exercise seems to work - it would be great if I could set up my goals in app to show that target!
Thanks!
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