Question about goals.....

PiecesOfTheHeart

I have entered in my goals what I weigh, want to weigh, and what I project I am going to do as far as exercise each week. My question is surrounding the calories figured around the exercise goals. If I did not log ANY exercise for the week would the exercise that is included in my goals be counted? I am confused about how these #'s work. Is the # of times I think I will be working out that I entered in my goals already taken out of my goals or does it need to be factored in? Am I making any sense here? I'm new ad trying to get all of this. Thanks for the help! :huh:

watfordjc

Your activity level is factored in, exercise is not.

Log exercise and the exercise calories are added to your remaining calories.

The idea is a fixed daily calorie deficit (that you set in the goal setting), so if you do some exercise on a particular day it makes those calories available so your deficit is 1/7th of weekly goal loss converted to calories. If you change your activity level, weekly weight loss goal, or lose 10 pounds (and follow the prompt) it'll do a recalculation.

Vailara

Yes, you are making sense! I don't think it's clear when you're setting up your goals. As far as your calorie goal is concerned, you can completely ignore any exercise you put under goals. You can leave that blank, or put in that you're going to exercise 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It doesn't matter! So no, if you didn't log exercise it wouldn't be included in your calorie goals, no matter what you'd entered in your exercise goals.

As said above, when you actually do the exercise you add that in under "exercise" and the calories burned are added to your calorie goal.