Exercise Calories

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NASOOTEE128
NASOOTEE128 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise

when I view my dashboard, my exercise(linked to my Applewatch) shows additional calories. It is not subtracting them. Anyone know why?

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  • Floriane_M
    Floriane_M Posts: 3 Member

    You can set up your account to either deduct your exercise or ignore it in the settings.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,953 Member

    What do you mean, subtract your exercise? In MFP, logging exercise generally would add calories to the number we have available to eat, not subtract them. There are some cases of subtraction when a fitness tracker is synced, if a person is less active than their MFP activity level setting would imply and they have negative adjustments enabled in MFP.

  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,609 Member

    If you chose a rate of weightloss you're given an amount of calories to eat. If you exercise on top you burn energy and hence would be losing quicker than what you chose. This is not really desirable as too fast loss, unless you have a lot to lose can be dangerous. Thus if you eat back your exercise calories you still lose at the desired rate. Note: exercise calories are often ofterstated. Try to eat back half of them for about 4-6 week and see how you're doing. If you lose too fast then eat more.

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