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Question about Walking and Goal

skywalker0829
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Ok I have 2 questions.
1 - Can someone explain to me the Goal | Food - Exercise = Net? Am I suppose to have a negative Net in order to create a deficit?
2 - I walked 5.1 miles today in 98 minutes. Does this mean I put in Walking 5.0 mph in 98 minutes in my MFP log?
1 - Can someone explain to me the Goal | Food - Exercise = Net? Am I suppose to have a negative Net in order to create a deficit?
2 - I walked 5.1 miles today in 98 minutes. Does this mean I put in Walking 5.0 mph in 98 minutes in my MFP log?
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1. Goal includes the deficit; aim for 0 net
2. If it took you 98 minutes to walk 5.1 miles, you were going 5.1/98*60 mph, or 3.1 mph. So it would be 98 minutes at 3.0mph
Way to go on the hour and a half of walking, btw!0 -
1) When you set up your goal with MFP, it includes your deficit. That's your NET goal. Any exercise you do, you're supposed to enter it and eat the calories back - if you base your calorie burn from MFP though, they tend to overestimate so I'd only eat 75% of it back.
2) 5.1 miles in 98 minutes is about 3mph. Enter 3mph for 98 minutes.0 -
That sucks....I put in walking 5.0 mph for 98 minutes, and it came up over 1500 calories burned. so now i had to change it to what you said, and it went to 648 calories burned. ugh0
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I think that is even high. I walk 6 miles in two hours, in the Mountains, steep terrain. My fitbit gives me about 400 calories burned.0
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Yeah, 100 calories per mile is a rough average for a human at any speed (though I've read for women it's usually closer to 75 for walking and 125 for running). So 648 for walking 5 miles isn't bad.
5mph for 98 minutes would be roughly 8 miles of running. 1500 calories sounds very high but if you're very large that will matter.0
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