How to stop swapping calories burned for ones I can eat?
theguy12
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So whenever I exercise it gives me more calories I can eat that day because I burned some.
How do I turn that off?
I want to eat the 1900 calories a day I agreed on and don't want to feel like I can eat more because I burned 400 calories and my food tracker says I can eat more now.
How do I turn this off?
How do I turn that off?
I want to eat the 1900 calories a day I agreed on and don't want to feel like I can eat more because I burned 400 calories and my food tracker says I can eat more now.
How do I turn this off?
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you need to eat it if you're not doing TDEE-%... Its' already built your deficit in. Weight loss is about the deficit, not the exercise. You're only netting 1500 your way, not the 1900 you agreed on.0
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Manually enter your exercise calories burned as 1 or don't enter exercise at all.0
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or put your exercise in the notes section if you want to track what you are doing.0
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when you put in exercise just count it as 1 calorie. It will still state the activity and what you did0
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So whenever I exercise it gives me more calories I can eat that day because I burned some.
How do I turn that off?
I want to eat the 1900 calories a day I agreed on and don't want to feel like I can eat more because I burned 400 calories and my food tracker says I can eat more now.
How do I turn this off?
A) Disable your account and either track on paper or go to another calorie tracking method that doesn't log your exercise
2) Don't track your exercise under cardio...use strength training or notes section
III) Log exercise as 1 calorie
Fourth) Just eat 1900 calories and ignore the rest.
Now...who did you make your agreement with to only eat 1900 calories a day, regardless of what activities you do? Do you know how MFP works and why it allows you to eat back calories burned?0 -
Are you understanding that the 'Agreed' amount of calories is to lose weight safely and successfully? If you change that to a much lower amount through exercise your body may work against you by burning muscle and slowing down your metabolism. So, trust the process and eat those calories. Just make the calories good calories. Eat clean. I had a problem with my calories too, but did what it told me to do and I have lost 40lbs. It works!0
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So whenever I exercise it gives me more calories I can eat that day because I burned some.
How do I turn that off?
I want to eat the 1900 calories a day I agreed on and don't want to feel like I can eat more because I burned 400 calories and my food tracker says I can eat more now.
How do I turn this off?
A) Disable your account and either track on paper or go to another calorie tracking method that doesn't log your exercise
2) Don't track your exercise under cardio...use strength training or notes section
III) Log exercise as 1 calorie
Fourth) Just eat 1900 calories and ignore the rest.
Now...who did you make your agreement with to only eat 1900 calories a day, regardless of what activities you do? Do you know how MFP works and why it allows you to eat back calories burned?
I do option 4, because posting a calorie burn makes me feel like a total bada$$.... and then I get all this much needed attention that I so desperately seek from all my friends.0 -
If 1900 calories is your TDEE - deficit, calculated including your workouts, then just don't log the exercise. Or log the exercise but only give yourself a 1 calorie burn.
If 1900 calories does not include your workouts, then not eating those calories back will artificially increase your deficit. A 250 calorie deficit + 400 calories of unlogged workout = 650 deficit. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, so long as you understand that you're eating at a larger deficit than you think you are, and thus the results will be different.
If you're already running a 1000 calorie deficit, and then you do 400 calories of unlogged exercise, you are upping your deficit to 1,400, which is considered an unhealthy level for all but the very obese. At very large deficits, muscle loss becomes more likely - especially if you are doing insufficient resistance training.
Bottom line : If you pick a 500 deficit for safe, steady weight loss, and then fail to log 1,000 calories of exercise, you won't get the measured steady weight loss you expect, and you'll probably lose a lot of muscle mass.0 -
So whenever I exercise it gives me more calories I can eat that day because I burned some.
How do I turn that off?
I want to eat the 1900 calories a day I agreed on and don't want to feel like I can eat more because I burned 400 calories and my food tracker says I can eat more now.
How do I turn this off?
A) Disable your account and either track on paper or go to another calorie tracking method that doesn't log your exercise
2) Don't track your exercise under cardio...use strength training or notes section
III) Log exercise as 1 calorie
Fourth) Just eat 1900 calories and ignore the rest.
Now...who did you make your agreement with to only eat 1900 calories a day, regardless of what activities you do? Do you know how MFP works and why it allows you to eat back calories burned?
I do option 4, because posting a calorie burn makes me feel like a total bada$$.... and then I get all this much needed attention that I so desperately seek from all my friends.
AWESOME burn, BTW!! WTG!!0 -
Yeah it depends if you are doing TDEE, then you do not eat back your exercise calories because it has that included in your activity level already, But if this is the goal that MFP set for you based on your activity level and weight loss goals, then you DO need to eat them back because it already has the deficit calculated in for you.0
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So whenever I exercise it gives me more calories I can eat that day because I burned some.
How do I turn that off?
I want to eat the 1900 calories a day I agreed on and don't want to feel like I can eat more because I burned 400 calories and my food tracker says I can eat more now.
How do I turn this off?
A) Disable your account and either track on paper or go to another calorie tracking method that doesn't log your exercise
2) Don't track your exercise under cardio...use strength training or notes section
III) Log exercise as 1 calorie
Fourth) Just eat 1900 calories and ignore the rest.
Now...who did you make your agreement with to only eat 1900 calories a day, regardless of what activities you do? Do you know how MFP works and why it allows you to eat back calories burned?
I do option 4, because posting a calorie burn makes me feel like a total bada$$.... and then I get all this much needed attention that I so desperately seek from all my friends.
AWESOME burn, BTW!! WTG!!
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Ar you using the MFP (NEAT) method or did you get your calorie goal from a TDEE calculator. If you're using MfP the way it is designed, you set your activity level without exercise...just your day to day hum drum...then you account for exercise after the fact by logging it...then you eat back those calories to fuel that activity. EAT (Exercise Activity Thermogenesis) is not included in your NEAT (Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis)...MFP is a NEAT method calculator, therefore, exercise is an extra activity that is unaccounted for until you physically account for it.
With TDEE, an estimate of your exercise calories (EAT) is included in your activity level...thus, they are accounted for already. When you take your cut from TDEE, you're still essentially eating those calories as they are accounted for in your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure).
Either method should be about 6 of 1 if you're doing it right. When I did MFP, my NET calorie GOAL was 1,850 to lose 1 Lb per week. With exercise I was grossing between 2100-2200 calories per day and losing roughly 1 Lb per week consistently. When I switched to the TDEE method, I dialed in my TDEE to be around 2650 - 2700 calories per day...knock off 20% and I was grossing roughly 2,150 calories per day. See...6 of 1.0 -
These are not really the answers I am looking for - was searching for something more website technical related.
Don't know what TDEE or MFP means?
Other online programs I have used allowed me to go to settings and turn off the SWAPPING exercise calories burned for more food calories.
Weight loss is burning more calories with exercise and eating less calories than you we're before - calorie deficit. That is my goal.
If MyFitnessPal uses my evaluation and tells me I need to eat 1900 calories daily then I do. Then I want to be able to work out and burn off 200-300 of those calories so I am eating around 1600-1700 calories daily.
I DO NOT want to just enter my exercise at 1 calorie -- I want to know exactly what I am burning and doing and what is working and what isn't.0 -
These are not really the answers I am looking for - was searching for something more website technical related.
Don't know what TDEE or MFP means?
Other online programs I have used allowed me to go to settings and turn off the SWAPPING exercise calories burned for more food calories.
Weight loss is burning more calories with exercise and eating less calories than you we're before - calorie deficit. That is my goal.
If MyFitnessPal uses my evaluation and tells me I need to eat 1900 calories daily then I do. Then I want to be able to work out and burn off 200-300 of those calories so I am eating around 1600-1700 calories daily.
I DO NOT want to just enter my exercise at 1 calorie -- I want to know exactly what I am burning and doing and what is working and what isn't.
You cannot turn it off with MFP...MFP is a NEAT method calculator...you have to work around it if you don't want to do it or ignore it. You cannot turn it off.
Also, see my post above...MFP gives you a GOAL that includes a weight loss deficit...it's really simple...it does all the math for you...you NET to your GOAL and you lose weight. It's really that simple. When you set your activity level up it is sans exercise...so exercise is unaccounted for activity that needs to be fueled. You don't need to know all of the terms and what not...this is really, really, really, really....super dupper simple but everyone tries to make is soooooo f'ing complicated it's ridiculous. Just NET to your calorie GOAL...that is the way this tool is designed to be used.0 -
These are not really the answers I am looking for - was searching for something more website technical related.
Don't know what TDEE or MFP means?
Other online programs I have used allowed me to go to settings and turn off the SWAPPING exercise calories burned for more food calories.
Weight loss is burning more calories with exercise and eating less calories than you we're before - calorie deficit. That is my goal.
If MyFitnessPal uses my evaluation and tells me I need to eat 1900 calories daily then I do. Then I want to be able to work out and burn off 200-300 of those calories so I am eating around 1600-1700 calories daily.
I DO NOT want to just enter my exercise at 1 calorie -- I want to know exactly what I am burning and doing and what is working and what isn't.
Eh? It sounds like you want to do exactly what MFP is designed for, and yet you are trying to turn off features.
Pick a deficit, log your exercise calories, and then eat what it tells you.
You aren't going to be able to fundamentally change how the site works. If you want that, you need a different site.0 -
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Sorry I don't understand.
So are you saying that when MFP tells me to eat 1900 calories it knows that I am working out doing circuit training three times a week even if I don't log it based on my activity assessment when I signed up?0 -
TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure.
MFP is MyFitnessPal0 -
It shows you calories consumed...just look at that and not the calories remaining. The program tells you how many calories you may intake based on your current weight and the daily activity level you tell it. If to maintain your weight you need to consume 2400 cal/day and your lifestyle is sedentary, but you want to lose 2 pounds/week it will tell you the amount of calories to decrease your dietary intake by without doing more exercise to lose those pounds. If you workout and burn "extra" calories on any given day, then the program adds those calories so that you will still be on target for your 2 pounds/week. You are making it sound like you want the workouts to burn bonus weight...in which case, don't log, or pay attention to the calories consumed tally.0
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Sorry I don't understand.
So are you saying that when MFP tells me to eat 1900 calories it knows that I am working out doing circuit training three times a week even if I don't log it based on my activity assessment when I signed up?
No. MFP uses your weight and goal and activity level (most people can/should set to sedentary), then it creates a deficit for your goal and give you that number to eat. As an example, if I use MFP's method, and I set to sedentary, my calories to maintain are 1600. If I tell MFP I want to lose, it sets me a "goal" of 1200, thereby creating a deficit. So, if I exercise and burn 400 calories, I can eat those back and still have a 400 calorie deficit for the day. You can choose to not eat back your calories, but your body neds furel, so make sure you're adequately fueling your activities.0 -
Sorry I don't understand.
So are you saying that when MFP tells me to eat 1900 calories it knows that I am working out doing circuit training three times a week even if I don't log it based on my activity assessment when I signed up?
If you put it to sedimentary for exercise and didn't put in any fitness goals, I would eat back your exercise calories.0 -
Sorry I don't understand.
So are you saying that when MFP tells me to eat 1900 calories it knows that I am working out doing circuit training three times a week even if I don't log it based on my activity assessment when I signed up?
MFP uses three factors to determine how much you should eat -
A. Activity level - This is where you choose whether you are sedentary, moderately active etc... It includes everything you do except exercise.
B. Your desired deficit - This is where you choose how much you want to lose per week. Half a pound per week = 250 calorie deficit per day, etc....
C. Logged exercise calories - This is the stuff you log, like your runs, time on the elliptical, etc...
The way MFP works is it first works out how many calories you can eat to lose weight with no exercise. So you can eat A - B. If you had a 1,900 NEAT figure (i.e. everything you do in a day except exercise) and you picked a 500 deficit (for one pound a week lost), MFP will tell you to eat 1,400 Calories a day to lose weight.
If you then run 5k, and burn 400 calories, it will subtract those 400 calories from what you have eaten. You then continue to eat up until the 1,400 mark. In total you will have eaten 1,800 calories, but that is still a 500 calorie deficit. If you do not eat back those 400 Calories, you will be running a 900 Calorie deficit.
Another (and probably easier) way to look at it is to figure out your total calorie allowance. I think this is what you are getting at. It gives the exact same end result - eating 1,800 calories.
Your calorie allowance effectively equals A + B - C.
MFP gives you 1900 calories for your base activity level.
On a given day you burn 400 calories running a 5k.
You want to lose 1 pound per week, so you set your deficit to 500.
You can eat 1,900 + 400 - 500 = 1,800 Calories.
The third method some have alluded to is TDEE. TDEE is your daily energy burn including exercise. There are lots of calculators out there to figure this out, some using more data than others. Some will go so far as asking you how many minutes you spend every day sleeping, sitting, lightly active, active, heavily active, and working out. It's more accurate, but also more work to setup. To use this method of creating a calorie deficit, you first calculate your TDEE and then subtract 10-20% from that number. You set the result as a custom goal in MFP, and then forget about logging exercise at all.
Ultimately, whichever method you use, it's all going to be trial and error. Food and exercise logging errors will invariably mean your results will vary slightly from those predicted. Pick a method, stick with it for six weeks, then compare your actual to predicted progress. Adjust accordingly. Losing too fast - eat more. Losing too slow - eat less, or reign in your exercise calorie burn estimates.0 -
Don't log your exercise. The only reason to log it is to add calories to eat back.0
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Sorry I don't understand.
So are you saying that when MFP tells me to eat 1900 calories it knows that I am working out doing circuit training three times a week even if I don't log it based on my activity assessment when I signed up?
If you set your activity level to high, then it assumes you are working out, so don't add it back in once you do it. If you are set a sedentary, you need to log your exercise, and eat back those calories.0 -
If you set your activity level to high, then it assumes you are working out, so don't add it back in once you do it. If you are set a sedentary, you need to log your exercise, and eat back those calories.
Sorry that is incorrect. Activity level reflects your lifestyle and job - it does not relate to added exercise.
I have a desk job so my activity level is sedentary, someone with a physically demanding job would be active or very active irrespective of how much added exercise they may do.0
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