Back ground Cals

smiler1978

Hi guys

Sorry so many questions - have had so much help already on this site in the space of 24 hres.

Im determined to get this right!

I have a HRM so want to log all the excercise I do and concentrate on eating some of my excercise cals to avoid getting tired and gving up!

Do people take off Back ground cals? if so How do I work this out - I dont want to claim back too many - my body would burn some cals just existing anyway in the time logged working out.

Can anyone shed any light?

thanks x

whittlecj

I haven't tried, but I suppose you could take your minutes exercising multiplied by your baseline calories (the ones mfp would give you if you had a goal of losing 0 weight) and then divided by the minutes in a day. That'd be rough and making 2 assumptions: 1) each minute of the day has the same calorie burn for the baseline and 2) that the baseline calories is correct.

To me thats too much fine tuning - but that's me. I use the mfp calories as a guide - if I'm losing faster than I want I increase them - even if that means selecting .5lb a when I'm aiming for 1lb.

KKButter

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