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Anyone else HATE how calories are red when barely over?!

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  • sarahharmintx
    sarahharmintx Posts: 868 Member
    It also turns red when you are at 0 calories left for the day. That really annoys me. It doesn't happen very often that I hit my calorie goal right on the number, but when I do it should not be red! lol
    Exactly!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Doesn't bother me...I've always been a big picture guy, minutia drives me nuts. Besides, you go over 100 calories on a day during a week..big deal! If you met your budget exactly the rest of the time, it would be like .03 pounds that you didn't lose on a pound a week plan. In my case, it usually nets out positively over the course of a week and I've usually eaten slightly less calories than budgeted.
  • allthenamesaretaken1
    allthenamesaretaken1 Posts: 98
    When you are over, you are over. Every extra calorie adds up.
  • allthenamesaretaken1
    allthenamesaretaken1 Posts: 98
    plus, its meant to piss you off so you wont go over
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    When you are over, you are over. Every extra calorie adds up.

    Exactly. Those extra 10 calories yesterday - a whole pound in 350 days. And that chicken recipe I logged for 200 calories when this time I used chicken cutlets instead of the whole breast I used last time which is probably less calories - that still puts me over.

    Not to mention eating at a deficit - unless you are exceeding your deficit, you are still eating less.

    And when your under, your under. Because all the entries are exact and there is no element of estimation on this site. People never choose a lower value, intentionally of unintentionally.
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