did you really burn that many calories?

I don't worry too much if other people want to delude themselves about their exercise. Just sit back and wait for their post saying they're doing everything right but they aren't losing any weight. Most often those who post those huge burns are only looking for a way to justify overeating.

I don't eat back the calories I burn...but I like logging my exercise.

My first 5K I burned 600 calories according to my HRM. 100 calories per mile is an often repeated myth.

I do t worry about what others post. It doesn't affect me. If they ask ill offer an opinion.

u are the second person today who has said the exercising calories seem high
I checked mine with livestrong.com so mine are pretty close

I don't do running though

I rely on my HRM. MFP and exercise machines are usually overly generous with calories burned compared to my HRM. The difference can be as much as 200-300 calories depending on the activity and duration.

I know the calories are over-inflated on MFP, but I want a log of what I actually did. My only other option would be to cut my exercise times/distances in half to get a more accurate amount, but I choose to log what I did and then only eat back half the calories or less (generally closer to 1/3). That seems to work for me.

First of all... if you see 1200 calories burned from cleaning, it's usually "from activities including cleaning" does not mean that cleaning burned all those calories.

Second, The amount you weigh makes a huge difference in how many calories you burn.. I used to regularly burn 1200 calories from exercise when I was 360 pounds...... Now I burn around 900... I'm sure when I lose another hundred pounds I'll burn even less.

Calories burned increases with intensity, duration, and weight; therefore, a bigger person putting a lot of intensity in an aerobic activity will burn more calories. A person doing high intensity aerobic activity can achieve a calorie burn of 700 within 40 to 45 minutes.

I burned eleventy million eating pie

you just got me so confused with "eleventy" there...

100 calories per mile? thats not true...everyone burns different amounts of calories depending on their own body, weight and muscle play a factor as well. for example someone who weighs more is going to burn more calories because their body has to work harder to perform the task. mfp does over exaggerate on calories burned so its smart to use a heart rate monitor to get a more accurate burn.

I never burned thousands but I also don't run , I brisk walk 4 to 5.5 miles so according to mfp I burn from 440 to 660 calories. I usually eat 50% of them back and when I'm not retaining water I have found that the calories burned have been correct for me after I calculated my caloric deficit for the week and compare it to the weigh loss for the week.

I think if instead of walking I was running my numbers would be closer to a thousand considering my size.

I take all my calories burned from my HRM and I always change the personal data within it to ensure I am getting the most accurate reading possible. I also take a glance every now and then at the cardio equipment numbers to check we are all in the same ball park... though I find the equipment usually is higher. I never use the MFP pre loaded calories for adding an exercise, I always use why my HRM says.
Also its probably worth noting I never add things I do in a regular day.. so no housework, I dont add that I walked the kids to school, I dont log that I walked to the shops for a salad sanger. I only log intentional exercise.

I do add my cleaning calories because I have my diary set to sedentary. But I will be honest I know darn well there is no way in heck I burned stupid high amounts of calories gardening. When I am out there I am usually weeding and well my hands get a real workout! I get way more out of cleaning. I can break one heck of a sweat when I really get going! But I try not to eat all those calories that are listed back. I mean come on 1 day it said I burned like 2000 calories because I did a massive clean out and worked all day but it still seemed like way to many. I think you just need to use your common sense when you look at some of these. I add them so I can see how much and how long I have been moving rather than calories burned. Although there are days that I have on there where I spent 90 minutes at the gym a couple of hours walking my dogs mowing my lawn with a push mower cleaning and doing heavy work in the garden. But you can feel those days for days! They are the exception rather than the rule.

My first 5K I burned 600 calories according to my HRM. 100 calories per mile is an often repeated myth.

I do t worry about what others post. It doesn't affect me. If they ask ill offer an opinion.

That's almost impossible. Maybe in a 10k but a 5k is probably 200-300 unless you are majorly overweight or super big person.

I don't eat all my exercise calories back, only if I'm genuinely hungry. This works for me. I figure the exercise numbers are mostly inflated. I have no idea what I've really burned. One of these days I'll buy a HRM.