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How do you count calories burned?

JustCallMeJaz
JustCallMeJaz Posts: 29 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I just recenlty bought a fitness watch, that takes your heart rate and determines how many cals burned during workout. I must say this number is significantly higher than those shown either on the machine I am working out on or the cals logged in the MFP workout database. I have heard that the watches/chest monitors are more accurate. But to some degree I feel weird about over-riding the calories shown or in the database, to indicate what the watch is telling me. My husband says Im being weird about the whole thing, but how do I know that my watch isnt broken. lol ...

So what do you do? Do you use the MFP database, do you use the treadmill number, or go off of your personal device?

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  • jhehle
    jhehle Posts: 88 Member
    use my heart rate monitor and then subtract like 150-200 cals from it just incase it was a little off, i just consider the rest "extra" lol
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