Exercise calories question

hamncheese67
hamncheese67 Posts: 1,715 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I may be overthinking this, but suppose for maintainence I need 2400 cal/day, which means on average my body burns 100 cal/hr. I then exercise for 1 hour and burn off 750 calories according to my HRM. Should I subtract off the average 100 cal/hr, and record my exercise calories to be 650 calories?

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  • Normalg
    Normalg Posts: 125 Member
    I believe the program has deducted your calories for the day so I think you can add back the full 750.
  • cskalaj
    cskalaj Posts: 94 Member
    I would subtract the extra 100 as you would be burning that, anyway and it IS part of maintenance.
  • MZNIKKIBOO
    MZNIKKIBOO Posts: 190
    BUMP I BEEN WONDERING TOO CAUSE I USE AN HRM SO I BEEN PUTTING IN WHAT HRM SAYS BUT ALWAYS WEARY ON EATING THEM ALL BACK U KNOW
  • meggonkgonk
    meggonkgonk Posts: 2,066 Member
    "Needing 2400 calories for maintence" is where you are getting yourself confused.

    MFP estimates how many calories you burn per day (it should be listed on your "goals" page) and then deducts calories from that number to get your daily calorie goal.

    So if you NEED 2400 for maintence, your daily calorie goal would be 1900 calories. You would aim for 1900 calories everyday and then eat any additional calories you burn from workouts.

    Does that make sense?
  • meggonkgonk
    meggonkgonk Posts: 2,066 Member
    BUMP I BEEN WONDERING TOO CAUSE I USE AN HRM SO I BEEN PUTTING IN WHAT HRM SAYS BUT ALWAYS WEARY ON EATING THEM ALL BACK U KNOW

    When using an HRM you need to make sure you are also deducting your base calories burned from the amount burned during your workout. Let's use the 2400 example and say you burn 100 cals per hour. But you workout for 1/2 an hour and your HRM says you've burned 300. Well you need to deduct 50, because that 1/2 hour of base burn is already calculated in MFP.
  • hamncheese67
    hamncheese67 Posts: 1,715 Member
    "Needing 2400 calories for maintence" is where you are getting yourself confused.

    MFP estimates how many calories you burn per day (it should be listed on your "goals" page) and then deducts calories from that number to get your daily calorie goal.

    So if you NEED 2400 for maintence, your daily calorie goal would be 1900 calories. You would aim for 1900 calories everyday and then eat any additional calories you burn from workouts.

    Does that make sense?

    Yes, but I wasn't confused, because I said maintenance not daily calorie goal. I know the difference and I know what MFP does. You answered my question in your next post.
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