Calories adjusted when I exercise

mayra3d
mayra3d Posts: 2 Member
edited October 8 in Food and Nutrition

Hola, I have a little concern. I set my daily calories to 1250 but I just noticed that when I exercise my base calories change and go up for example today it says 1774. When I started 3 months ago my weight was 128lbs and now I am at 132lbs :(. I'm new to this my fitnesspal app. Any advice on do I have to keep the "update calories when exercise" or I have to unable? Thank you for your help 😁🫣

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,154 Community Helper

    You can only turn that feature off if you have premium MFP.

    Generally, I'd suggest not turning it off, but that's a more nuanced discussion.

    You don't say whether you're trying to lose weight or gain weight and at the weights you mention it could be either, depending on your height. Therefore, I don't know whether the weight change you mention is a good thing or a bad thing for you.

    If you have free MFP you can stop the exercise calorie add by un-syncing your fitness tracker if that's what's recording exercise calories, by not logging exercise if you're logging it manually, or by logging the exercise manually by changing the exercise calories to just one calorie.

    Whether any of that that's a good idea is also a more nuanced issue. It would help if you told us your age, height, etc.; plus whether you're trying to gain or lose; and what exercise of what duration is causing the several hundred calories to be added.

  • mayra3d
    mayra3d Posts: 2 Member
    edited October 9

    Well! I am 46 yo and I'm 155 cm height, I am trying to lose some weight. I workout 1h 30 minutes 5 days a week including the warm-up.

  • rms62003
    rms62003 Posts: 259 Member

    I work out 4-5 days a week as well. Personally, I have the exercise calories turned off. As AnnPT77 says, this is a nuanced discussion. You will see people on both sides of the fence for this one.

    A few things about exercise calories.

    1. They are usually over estimated. So, even those that do include them recommend to NOT eat back all of them.
    2. You can semi include them by changing the base activity level in MFP. So, some people set this to include exercise calories (put it as moderately active instead of lightly active, for instance).

    I would recommend find what works for you. Weight loss is a little of an experiment, we all respond differently. So, if you do want to include/eat back, your exercise calories, then go for it. If you haven't seen a decent (0.5-1 lb) weight loss in a few weeks, then adjust down your goals a little, or take out the exercise calories. I do recommend giving it some time, up to a month even, before adjusting goals. Again, our bodies will not respond linearly to what we do, even if we want them to 🤗

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