Guided Setup

donjtomasco

Is it better to put sedentary and -0- workouts a week then manually enter exercises and calories burned to get my daily calorie target? Or better to put number of activities and minutes per activity? My calories per day went from 1500 for -0- workouts to 2000 for my 5 workouts for 50 minutes per workout. Or, would I still enter my actually calories burned in both cases? It's rather confusing and not clear. Thank you!

Lietchi

donjtomasco wrote: »

Is it better to put sedentary and -0- workouts a week then manually enter exercises and calories burned to get my daily calorie target? Or better to put number of activities and minutes per activity? My calories per day went from 1500 for -0- workouts to 2000 for my 5 workouts for 50 minutes per workout. Or, would I still enter my actually calories burned in both cases? It's rather confusing and not clear. Thank you!

It's a very confusing part of the setup. Entering your exercise goals in the setup doesn't actually do anything for your calorie goal. Your calorie goal only changes when you effectively enter exercise in your diary.
The fact that you got a different calorie goal makes me think you also chose a different activity level?
Your activity goal is meant to reflect non exercise activity (job, housework, commute, hobbies...) and exercise is then meant to be added into your diary when you effectively do it (and you then get extra calories).

tomcustombuilder

It’s easier to just use a higher activity level and not track individual exercises. Whichever way you choose you want to review progress or lack of it in a month or so and adjust things around.

Once you have a good handle on what you’re doing you can just manually set your calorie target

nicsflyingcircus

just set myself to lightly active and don't worry about entering my workouts (1hr weights, 3-4 times/week).