NEW MEMBER -- Calories calculated on this website -- are the

PinkDog

Hi All,

I used to subscribe to weightwatchers.com (lost 42lbs but didn't want to pay anymore and also liked that I can track my sodium here) and my daily caloric allowance was lower on WW than it is on this website.

As well-- I use 'map my run' to figure out how far I've walked and what speed I've walked so that I can enter it into my daily exercise tracker on here.

mapmyrun.com always tells me I've burned about 1/3 less the calories that it says on here.

My question is this:

IS THERE ANYONE OUT HERE WHO EATS ALL THEIR CALORIES PLUS THEIR EXERCISE CALORIES AS STATED ON MYFITNESSPAL.COM AND STILL LOSES WEIGHT?

Thanks all!

-- Pink

bsmartt

Yes, I have lost 20 pounds so far. As far as the exercise calories, I think they do run a little high. So I would just keep that in mind. One way or another you can use the site to track calories as you eat them and set your own caloric intake.

twilight1542

Unless your using a Heart Rate Monitot I wouldn't recommend eating all of your calories....Reason being that MFP & all other calorie counters make assumptions about your heart rate during exercise which could impact your calorie burn in either direction. I recall many people recommending eating 50% of them. Personally, I got a HRM about a month into .y jourrney so I don't mind eating all my exercise calories if I am hungry b/c I'm more confident in my HRM's #'s than the #'s I can get from this & other sites. Just my 2 cents

BrendaLee

I eat all of my exercise calories if I'm hungry. I often go over my calories, and I'm still losing.

BrenNew

Unless your using a Heart Rate Monitot I wouldn't recommend eating all of your calories....Reason being that MFP & all other calorie counters make assumptions about your heart rate during exercise which could impact your calorie burn in either direction. I recall many people recommending eating 50% of them. Personally, I got a HRM about a month into .y jourrney so I don't mind eating all my exercise calories if I am hungry b/c I'm more confident in my HRM's #'s than the #'s I can get from this & other sites. Just my 2 cents

I completely agree with twighlight. I used to eat most of my exercise calories, but for the longest time, wasn't losing. Then I bought a HRM too, and same thing, I burned less calories than I'd thought. So once I started eating what I KNEW I could, I started losing again! :happy:

arewethereyet

My question is this:

IS THERE ANYONE OUT HERE WHO EATS ALL THEIR CALORIES PLUS THEIR EXERCISE CALORIES AS STATED ON MYFITNESSPAL.COM AND STILL LOSES WEIGHT?

Thanks all!

-- Pink

I bought an HRM because it drove me crazy not knowing. Worth every dime I paid.

That being said, I find the calories on here are pretty darn close to my real numbers burned. Usually within 10%.

I do not eat all of my exercise calories. I am set at 1/2 a pound a week, therefore I get around 1400 cals a day. I end up eating 60-70% of my exercise cals.

Now.......let me say, I am losing very sloooooooooooooowly because I am at the last 10 or so.

:flowerforyou: Jeannie

Demetria

How did you set your goals?

If you put down to lose 2 lbs a week then your daily calories will figure that in. For example your to maintain your weight you would have 2,000 calories, but to lose 2 lbs a week MFP will set your calories at 1200. So you are already at a 800 deficit for your daily calories to just lose weight. That is a lot. If you go over a deficit of 1000 calories a day then your body can go into starvation mode which you don't want. So if you exercise and burn 400 calories then you are at a 1200 deficit. NOT GOOD. That is why MFP give you your exercise calories to eat, to keep your metabolism going.

And 1200 calories a day is the minimum for women and I think 1500 is the minimum for men.

HTH,
Demetria