HRM Calories Burned

Nikkerz620

I read somewhere in the message boards a while ago that you should subtract what you would have burned during the minutes you were exercising from what your HRM says because MyFitnessPal already includes those in your daily calories.

Like if MyFitnessPal says you normally burn 2000 calories a day that's 1.3888 calories a minute so if I work out for 60 minutes and burn 600 calories I should only enter 517 calories.

Is this what I should do?

I want to make sure I'm not over entering my calories burned.

Thanks in advance.

spacecase76

I think you are over-analyzing it. Unless you are eating directly TO the number of calories you are allowed every day, I would just put what the HRM says. I never meet my max calorie goal. It would never cross my mind to short-change myself.

GL with whatever you decide!

lilchino4af

I've never done that and I never had a problem losing weight. I'm sure other people here will agree; don't over analyze it. If you HRM say you burned 420, log 420. You by no means have to eat all that back, asyou may find that only eating 75% of yoru workout calories back is what you need to lose weight. For me it was about 90% to keep losing weight. But don't worry about the small nuance of normal calorie burn during your workouts becase in the long run it's not big enough to make that big of a difference (especially when you consider 83 calories to 3500 needed to lose 1 lb... those 83 cals are not going to stop you).

staceyb_2003

Never heard of that one sorry i can't help:-s