Friends exaggerating their workouts?
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So not to sound snobby or a know it all, but was wondering if anyone else has noticed this on their friends list's. My girlfriend and I have seen a few friends realllllly going overboard on the types of exercises. "Burned 3200 calories doing xxx minutes of small activity" Whoa now, 3200??!! Now I'm all about working hard, but this seems a little extreme. Worse part is their friends are congratulating them on working that many calories. AGAIN I know there are some who truly work out and really bust it, but to me these friends seems like they are lying to themselves.
So should I say something to these friends when they post a ridiculous burning of calories,or wait till they complain they aren't getting the results?
So should I say something to these friends when they post a ridiculous burning of calories,or wait till they complain they aren't getting the results?
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Why would you care if others are lying to themselves?0
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Wait. If they have found something that works for them, then that's fine.
If they start complaining about not losing weight, that's when I would ask about their activity level settings vs added activity.0 -
Yeah I saw a 3000 odd calorie burn on someones diary earlier, thought maybe they decided to stay up all night exercising or something lol.
Assuming they are lieing though it doesn't really matter they are only lieing to themselves, in putting high calorie burn isn't going to make you thinner or fitter if you didn't do it LOL. Don't get why they do it though, if I was going to lie I just wouldn't be wasting my time doing this.0 -
And this affects me, how? I could not care less how many calories anyone else eats or burns. . . unless they ask for input, or start complaining, I pay no attention.0
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i think that this website really overestimates calories burned... when i use the workout machines in the gym it tells me i burned XX number of calories, and i come back and enter the time i spent on a certain machine and it's like you burned LOTS of calories!!! and it's a lie so i just enter the calories that the gym thing tells me i burned
also the activities you can enter are kind of subjective. for example, i can tell the website i did the stair climbing machine, but it doesn't know how hard or not hard i worked, but the machine i was on does, so i choose to follow that instead. 0 -
This thread took a strange turn when I looked and saw you only have 7 friends. I think whoever you're talking about might catch on.0
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I burned 3700 calories not caring about friends exaggerated workouts.0
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Why would you care if others are lying to themselves?
ya...nosy nate! lol0 -
yeah his girlfriend is pissed!This thread took a strange turn when I looked and saw you only have 7 friends. I think whoever you're talking about might catch on.0 -
I might call the person on their exaggeration, but I wouldn't worry about it.
Exaggerating their workout is the same as neglecting to log in food they ate.....they are just lying to themselves, and in the end, they aren't doing themselves any favors.
If they feel good about deceiving themselves, then far be it for you to dispute them.
In the end, you might just want to delete them from your friends list.
If they can't take this seriously, then you don't need them as part of your circle.0 -
Some high burn are over a long period of time... i.e. a day at the zoo or whatever...0
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Haha I see exaggerations all the time... I see medically impossible exaggerations... I had a friend on here that was 450ish lbs and they logged like 2 hours of hardcore swimming... All the time ...went for weeks doing that always 2 hours in whatever this person did and I never saw a lb lost post....
Do I really care ? No ... Delete and move on. You can ask me anything, I really don't care. Lying to yourself only hurts you not the person on the friends list. Move on...
If my math is right for my weight, height and age MFP exaggerates between 30ish% of most work outs. Last night treadmill machine said 140 calories, mfp said like 240, elliptical said 360 while mfp was at 500 so I usually just eat half the calories back or just reduce it by about 30%0 -
Kind of a tough one. What's your friend's goal hole?0
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The site sometimes GREATLY overestimates how much you've burned. And I now people who are probably exaggerating. But they didn't ask me and it's not my place to correct them. Now... if they ask me, it's on!0
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If it's the friend I think it is, the person is under by thousands of calories on the days with the huge burns. So even if they're exaggerating the exercise, it has no impact.0
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I wouldn't say anything... but I never add when I'm doing housework, that one kind of makes me laugh.0
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Who gives a bleep. Just make sure you're keeping it real with yourself.0
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This thread took a strange turn when I looked and saw you only have 7 friends. I think whoever you're talking about might catch on.
exactly. lol0 -
Haha I was on another fitness tracker where there was an option to log "sexual activity" as a workout (hilariously awesome bee tee dubs).
One guy logged 15 minutes every day for that category.......awkward0 -
^^^^^^ love it...live and let liveI burned 3700 calories not caring about friends exaggerated workouts.0
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