over-inflated calories from exercise?

fitnessjch

Mines the other way round - MFP is less calories than the gym says. I log what the machine says

DangerRanger

I ALWAYS subtract. I rather underestimate than overestimate.<

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does that make sense?lol

eeeekie

After I got my HRM I found MFP to give a lot less than what my HRM read. For one of my exercises it was 300 calories less than what my HRM showed. If you feel more comfortable logging less time to get less calories then do it. I used to do that (although I was way off base) but it felt safer to me.

timplar

I agree, the MFP numbers are inflated. I use a HRM, but on the days that I've actually used MFP, I only record 80% of the number it says.

legacysh

I was worried too, bought an HRM and found that it was over calculating on most, and in some cases I was burning more that I expected. So I'm glad I got the HRM and I feel at least it is more accurate for me! I don't eat all my exercise calories back, because I don't trust all the calorie counts and I would rather be safe than sorry in most instances!

miranda52

I agree, I always subtract a bunch of calories from what it actually says I burn.

tmogs

MFP goes off the amount of calories burned that you inputted the first time you logged that exercise. From that point on it is giving you an estimate of what you did that first day. MFP doesn't know if you had a good or bad workout day, so just use good judgement until/if you choose to invest in a personal HRM.

IrishChick71

i always thought the ones on mfp were high but then i bought and tested my hrm.... turns out i burn MORE than what mfp was giving me

Me too!

But recently the numbers are averaging out probably because I'm losing weight.