How to Show Exercise Calories on Food Diary Page

chouchou127566

I want to set up the app so that my exercise calories burned appear on my food diary page. Where is the setting for this?

Thanks!

chouchou127566

Thanks for the help, everyone!

springlering62

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10944529/how-to-show-exercise-calories-on-food-diary-page

welcome to MFP!

if you’ve properly synced your device, you should be able to scroll to the bottom of the food diary and see exercise recorded like so:

I use the iOS app and sync via an Apple Watch. Other devices should look similar.

(I am highly active and have the “Apple Watch calorie adjustment” set. You will not need this unless you are earning a lot of exercise calories, so please disregard this line.)

this sounds really obvious, but I’ve discovered a lot of people don’t realize they have to both “start” and “stop” an exercise on Apple Watch in order for it to sync to MFP.

Not sure about Garmin, Fitbit’s or other but would assume it’s a similar process.

springlering62

if you’re using Apple Watch, btw, you set the sync up on your phone, not the watch. Plmk if you need screen shots to help.

AnnPT77

Even if a person doesn't sync an Apple watch or other device, but instead manually logs exercise in the cardiovascular section of the MFP exercise database, the exercise will show up as in Spring's screen shot above, in the phone/tablet version of MFP.

That only applies for exercises entered in the cardiovascular section. If you logged exercises by typing them in the strength part of the app's exercise database, calories don't get allocated from that section. If you want calorie credit for strength training, log the session time - including normal short between-set rests - in the cardiovascular section as the "Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)" predefined exercise.

I use the Android version of the phone/tablet app, and this is the exercise section from my diary page yesterday, showing a custom exercise I added:

The web browser version of MFP shows exercise calories on the diary page, too, but only as a single numeric item at the bottom, below the totals. That looks like this:

There's no setting that makes the web version show more than that on the food diary page. To see exercise calories in the web browser version, click on the "Exercise" tab. The resulting page will list both cardiovascular and strength exercise entries you input, but still only the cardiovascular section allocates calories.

Strength training burns a few calories, but there isn't a great way to estimate those from the details of which strength exercises a person did. The session time can be used to estimate the calories, as described above.