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Heart rate monitor accuracy for the pregnant lady
AEC50
Posts: 124 Member
Hello!
I'm due April 25 and have been silent on MFP for much of my pregnancy (though I've been eating great and exercising regularly - just not tracking). I want to get back in the swing of things now, but have a question.
I use my Polar F7 HRM to track calories burned. I know we have higher heart rates and so burn more calories when we're pregnant, so it's no surprise that on a 3 mile run I am burning 470 instead of the 300 I'd burn not pregnant.
My question is - do you subtract the "pregnancy overage" calories when tracking? (I eat back my exercise calories, so it matters to me.) Curious what you all do!
I'm due April 25 and have been silent on MFP for much of my pregnancy (though I've been eating great and exercising regularly - just not tracking). I want to get back in the swing of things now, but have a question.
I use my Polar F7 HRM to track calories burned. I know we have higher heart rates and so burn more calories when we're pregnant, so it's no surprise that on a 3 mile run I am burning 470 instead of the 300 I'd burn not pregnant.
My question is - do you subtract the "pregnancy overage" calories when tracking? (I eat back my exercise calories, so it matters to me.) Curious what you all do!
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I have been putting in whatever my HRM says -10% but I took off the 10% before getting pregnant too. I usually eat most of my calories back. (Or if I didn't I ate them on a day I didn't exercise
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