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sedentary setting and exercise?☺

annietud
annietud Posts: 33 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone, I expect someone will help me.☺
I have my setting on sedentary, I'm a sahm. This setting doesn't include any exercise calories, right?
Therefore when I workout I can add my numbers and eat some of them if I need.
Thanks all.x

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  • sticky130
    sticky130 Posts: 101 Member
    I have mine set at sedentary as well and so if I want to eat more I have to work for it!!

    I have a fitbit and it just transfers my activities straight across, I don't like the numbers MFP gives you for activities as they seem tooo generous so I log anything extra into my Fitbit app.

    Obviously you don't need a fitbit so just record your activities straight into MFP just be careful of the high numbers given.

    Hope this helps :bigsmile:
  • annietud
    annietud Posts: 33 Member
    That helps lots.
    My calories per day is 1550- .5 loss/WK . I only have 10lb ish to get rid of.????
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Hi everyone, I expect someone will help me.☺
    I have my setting on sedentary, I'm a sahm. This setting doesn't include any exercise calories, right?
    Therefore when I workout I can add my numbers and eat some of them if I need.
    Thanks all.x

    Yes...just make allowances for estimation error. Database and calculators can substantially overestimate burns, as can cardio machines, etc.

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