MFP calories burned IS ACCURATE! PLEASE stop saying MFP give

Superdupermom

Good answers everyone. You definitely can not depend on MFP to know exactly how many calories you burned because it's going to tell EVERYONE on here the same amount of cals for a selected exercise and than in itself proves it to be incorrect!!

not really. my husband gets a completely different number than me on the same exercises! MFP is close enough! MFP is awesome and millions of people have lost weight on it...so hell yea im gonna depend on what it says i burned!!! may not be PERFECT but it WORKS!!!

donicagalek

They take into account age/gender/weight but it's the little things like how aggressively you're doing the exercise that really kills it.

Take, for example, Jillian Michael's Shred vs. Insanity Fast and Furious. Both could be considered circuit. Both do NOT burn the same calories. No way - No how!

Take two people of the same age/gender/weight using the same elliptical for the same amount of time. Say they even go at the same speed/intensity. One of them has been using the machine every day for a year and it's the other person's first time using it. They aren't going to be burning the same amount of calories.

It's accurate, but it isn't. You have to use common sense and not kid yourself. You'll find out if you are when the scale tells you that you've stopped losing weight. Not for a day, not for a week or even two...but when months go by with no weight loss (or god forbid a gain) you'll have to start being honest with yourself.

sundance2032

I always thought housework was counted in the normal starting calories...boy have I been missing out.

You have to be very careful adding cleaning and normal daily things. It is very ease to over eat if you are eating back those cals. If you do these things daily or every other day it is better to change your daily act level.

Be very careful

JulsDiane

And the last item that no one seemed to mention that neither the calculators nor an HRM can take into account is the resistance for the activity.....sometimes you exert extra energy, thus burn extra calories, but DO NOT raise your heart rate, therefore an HRM isn't giving you the actual burn either. An HRM is actually designed for HEART health and overall fitness not to calculate calories......

Like I said, they are both about the same in my personal case but they are not 100% reliable and cannot be.....

kblue2007

I have been wondering how accurate the cardio equipment is at the gym....what I get from the machines is much higher than what MFP gives me....so my train of thought was use the machines count, since I put in my weight, instead of MFP because the elliptical accounts for my level of resistance, speed, etc.
I am super worried that I may be accounting for too many calories???