Average calories in a day

so why when I put in 60 mins hard swim it comes up with 1336 calories burnt?

because MFP vastly overestimates the amount of calories burnt

Sometimes.

In her case, she is very over-weight. So maybe not.

...and Ms Swimmer, are you going Full-Tilt for 60 minutes, or swim/rest/swim slower/rest/ maybe one lap of All Out.??


Yeah. Thought so. :flowerforyou:

I'm about 215-220 so when I do a 5K run, it'll burn about 400 calories (net)

between 200-400 typically. I under-log on weekends when I'm much more active. Not drastically...but if I'm walking for the better part of 9 hrs I am not going to log 8-9 hrs of walking. I'll put in 3.

Based on my HRM data (which, oddly, doesn't usually differ all that much from the MFP calculation, though I know that appears to be the exception) for the past 6 weeks, I burn an average of 436 calories per day. That includes rest days (where I burn and log 0 calories), as well as long run days, where I can burn >2200 calories. Just depends on the day and the run.

I walk every second day and burn 500 - 700 usually, speed walking 5-7 miles. I'm currently adjusting my route as I complete it faster, with less burn as I'm losing weight. For a 500 calorie burn it's usually 1.5 hours now.

MFP databases overestimates mine, on average, as being 200 calories more. I use Cardio Trainer.

I average between 1000-1200 calories burned and that is normally 60-75 minutes of cardio.....

It honestly depends on what I am doing. If I bike for 30 minutes its only 200 or so calories if I run my 3-4 miles its anywhere from 500-600 add in a little bit of kettlebells and I am closer to 700 a day. I break up my workouts though morning and night and everyday is not the same. I do like to burn no less than 200 a day though.

You should log the walks and the weights. You'd be surprised how much that will add up to in a week. :-)

I burn about 300 cal 3 times a week, doing rowing machine for 30 min each time, treadmill, bike and bit of weights. I swim twice a week too. I eat 1490 cal a day. I keep losing weight constantly since february.

I was only going by logging on this site for calories burn't. When I swim I do one full hour without stopping, I realise now to change it to slower swim. But if it is so wrong why is it still on the site? As a newcomer I assumed all on this site would work well. I assumed what I was logging was correct as per Myfitnesspal.

I hear what you're saying. The problem is that exercise - especially one like swimming - is so variable between individuals. Personally I believe MFP would do a better job if exercises like cycling and swimming were logged by distance rather than by time, but the reality is most people are even worse at figuring out how far they went than they are at honestly noting down the length of time they did the activity.

Here are two calculators I use, one for run/walk and the other for swimming:

http://caloriesburnedhq.com/calories-burned-swimming/
http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs.html

I adjust MFP to more or less reflect what those calculators are giving me.

You can see from my point of view this is all a little confusing.

From what I can tell, you are doing an amazing job and really trying to do it right - I'm impressed! And I'm sure that first two stone is only just the beginning for you!

Since people can and do starve to death I am reasonably confident that eating too little will never ever be a reason why any person can't lose weight. In the long run it might make it harder to maintain the new weight (possibly, maybe depending on how little and what you read)

I understand that starving yourself sounds like the way to loose weight but there are a couple of things at work. First. The more you starve yourself, the more your body wants to store fat for future use. Second, the more you starve yourself the more your metabolism slows down. So although you could starve yourself down to a given weight, you can't starve yourself to a healthy weight. You need to be eating a percentage of your BMR to keep the body from tearing apart muscle and keep it from slowing your metabolism. Exercise will speed the metabolism and starving will slow it. So sometimes if you hit a plateau you need to increase what you are eating with good carbs and proteins and also increase your exercise. The problem with losing weight is that you burn less calories per the same volume of exercise performed. So if you are eating the same and exercising the same, you will reach a point where you aren't loosing more weight.

Also remember that not all exercise is the same. Some exercise builds muscle. Some exercise burns fat. Knowing your functional threshold for either power or heart rate will allow you to know what zones you need to be in to loose fat or build muscle. A bicycle ride at Heart Rate (HR) Zone 5 is going to stress your muscles to the point where they try to build up to make it not so difficult the next time so even though you rode an hour at a HR zone of 5 you won't lose as much weight as the calorie counter would indicate. A HR zone of 2 would burn fat but not build muscle so sometimes toning down the exercise will help you lose weight as well. It's a lot of playing around with diet and exercise levels to figure out how to get off that plateau.

OP, I think you are doing fine and I commend you for getting out and doing the exercise. Keep up the good work. Worry less about the pounds and more about the measurements. Body fat percentage is a better indicator than BMI but it takes longer to see changes. Keep up the good work.

300-700 on cardio

I use a Polar FT4 and on days I run (doing C25k on week 9 woot!) I burn about 300-350 calories. On the off days I don't run I do JM 30DS and I burn about 200-ish if I am ambitious and really push myself to follow the un-modified moves. I am a 5'5 female and weigh 144.