Did I really burn over 1100 calories today?

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  • crlyxx
    crlyxx Posts: 186 Member
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    Not exactly. What I didn't realize at first is that you need to subtract the amount you've burned (say, 500 in one hour) from your bmr, the calories you would've burned anyway by simply living. For me, it's about 57 calories an hour. So if my heart rate monitor said I burned 500 in an hour, really I was only burning 443 or so.

    That... that's not what you're supposed to do. You're doing it wrong. You're REALLY BURNING 500. What you're trying to say is that that is only ~443 EXTRA, over what you would burn if you were in bed asleep. So in OP's case, she may have REALLY BURNED 1100 in two hours, which would be at least 900 EXTRA over what she would have burned if she was just watching TV.

    Yes, but if she plans on logging her exercise calories, she should only log the 443, because MFP already has the 57 calories factored into her daily goal.

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