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Should I add fitness goal?

candysweener13
candysweener13 Posts: 14 Member
edited February 1 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me. I've been learning a lot from all your posts and I am understanding a little bit more about calories and exercise calories and calories without exercise and I think I've got the basics of that down. My question is, when I set up MFP it had asked how often I will be working out and of course my ideal is 4 days a week for 30 min. I use one of the apps (runtastic) for exercise and it automatically adjusts my calories for me, but should I just delete the fitness goal so my calories would be more accurate and then eat back the exercise calories I earn???? I guess I don't understand this as much as I thought. I'm just trying to make sure I'm doing this accurately as possible so I know I'm not doing something wrong, not lose the weight and get depressed and give up.

Thanks so much!

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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    The fitness goal on MFP does not affect your calorie goal. It is basically just a time/frequency goal.

    The way MFP is set up it doesn't account for exercise calorie wise until you (or your runtastic) log it.
  • candysweener13
    candysweener13 Posts: 14 Member
    See that is all I needed to know!!! Thank you so much!!! I was wondering if I had this whole thing set up wrong :-)
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    See that is all I needed to know!!! Thank you so much!!! I was wondering if I had this whole thing set up wrong :-)

    It does cause a ton of confusion here.
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