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Net calories vs calories

PurplePookie
PurplePookie Posts: 85 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I was checking out my reports and I could get a report based on net calories and one for calories but the graph looked the same. Can someone please tell me what the difference is.

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  • vypeters
    vypeters Posts: 475 Member
    Are you logging any exercise? Net calories = calories - exercise calories

    Sooo:

    1500 calories no exercise = 1500 net calories
    1500 calories - 300 calories exercise = 1200 net calories

    I classify myself as sedentary and then log all my purposeful exercise (as opposed to the activities of daily life). That IMO gives the best picture of net calories.
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