question about calories burned

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annastasia76
annastasia76 Posts: 123 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
one thing I have always wondered about, does this mfp or this site http://www.healthstatus.com/cgi-bin/calc/calculator.cgi take into account the number of calories you would have burned if you hadn't been exercising??? I have been subtracting that amount from my calories burned in order to get a more accurate amount. you burn about 75 calories an hour just sitting then it says that I burn 120 an hour knitting so I record 45 calories, or should I be recording the whole 120?? that's just an example, I don't usually record my everyday activities (unless I am curious how much I burned if I spent all day doing something)

I hope I am asking this correctly.

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  • jesreeves
    jesreeves Posts: 1 Member
    just record the actual number and then put your activities in the exercise thing and it does it all for you
  • cardbucfan
    cardbucfan Posts: 10,571 Member
    Some people back out their existence calories and only record the "overage" or the extra they burned from the activity. I personally don't do that math but I also don't eat all my exercise calories.
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