For those that "eat your exercise calories" back...

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  • kolbyjack
    kolbyjack Posts: 71
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    Another biggie - is the HRM subtracting the calories you would have burned if you did absolutely NOTHING for the X number of minutes you exercised? In other words does it give you the net or the gross calories? That's a HUGE downfall if you do steady state for very long periods.

    Actually, does MFP give you net or gross? I'm guessing net, but...?

    This is what I do...If I burn 500 calories in one hour of working out, I subtract my resting metabolic rate per hour. So...Say your RMR is 1400 a day, that would be about 59 calories per hour if you were laying in bed doing nothing. I subtract those 59 calories from the 500 I burned and that is the number I log. I do not eat all those exercise calories back all the time though, but I could (and probably should), sometimes I just am not hungry enough. I know my HRM says the fat calories burned as well, but I guess I don't do anything with that information...Hope I helped a little bit.

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