MFP Calories burned oversight?
So I was doing some analysis, and I think I've discovered an oversight in the way MFP calculates calories burned.
Lets say you have a BMR + Daily activities modifier of 2400 calories a day. Meaning, doing your NORMAL day to day activities, you burn 2400 calories. 2400cals / 24 hours in a day = 100 calories burned/hour.
Now, lets say you enter in a long running, low intensity activity like golf, for 4 hours, which burns ~1200 calories.
MFP will now calculate your calorie goal for the day to be 3600, which is your original 2400 + 1200.
However, just by doing normal daily activities in the 4 hours you were playing golf, you would have burned 400 calories. So I think MFP should be subtracting your Normal daily burn from the Exercise burned to calculate the amount you need to eat. Namely, you should have to eat an ADDITIONAL 800 calories because MFP already gave you 400 of them.
Now, for short things under an hour, I don't think this will make much of a difference. But for long running tasks like golf, cleaning, ect, I think this could significantly slow your rate of loss, because you would actually eat less of a deficit.
Any thoughts on the matter?
