Not reaching my goals! HELP!

Are you accurate? What are you basing your exercise calorie burn from? 1000 exercise calories a day is a lot.

How are you tracking your calorie burns? Do you use a heart rate monitor? 1000+ calorie burns in a day is really quite a bit.

Hi !

How do you track your calories burned ? Do you have a HRM ?

It's a huge amount of burns 1000+

Do you burn this every day ?

With full contact kick boxing mine is 2900! No way! I'm in maintenance right now. I eat around 1900 so far without losing or gaining. I didn't eat "back" all of my exercise calories while losing. You could add 100 and week and see if you're not losing too much (add more) or gaining after a certain amount (cut back).

I found I lost MORE weight the month I was not exercising and therefore not eating back exercise calories (had a back injury). I finally figured out what it was. MFP's estimate of calories burned for most exercises is way too high, sometimes 4 or 5 times more than you are actually burning. Get one of those heart rate monitors if you can afford it, to see how many calories you are actually burning with exercise. Otherwise, do what I do - go onto other websites and search for how many calories people your weight are typically burning. So instead of logging like 400 cals for 1 hour of bellydance, I know I only burn about 150. And 30 min of walking only like 70 cals. 30 minutes of a Jillian Michaels DVD only burns like 150 cals for me, whereas MFP's circuit training estimate was giving me like 250 something, very off.

So if you are using MFP's estimates for exercise calories (and therefore the amount of exercise calories you are eating back), it is probably way too high and is why you are having problems at the moment. Unless you are doing 5 or 6 hours of exercise, it looks like too much.

All right. Every body take a step back. I realize that it is insane calorie burn. I just did what I read to do on here. I do 4 miles a day walking at 3.5 and an hour a day of circuit training every other day switching to 20 mins. I have to lose weight because I am enlisting in the Military and logging the exercises in this site, its saying that's the amount of calories I am burning. I am pretty new with this whole thing so no I do not have a heart monitor or anything that can tell me exactly how many calories I am burning during each workout.

that does not sound like a 1100 cal burn

I'm new here, as you can see. I've often been wondering about the calorie burn counters on My Fitness Pal. They seem way off. I've been logging the numbers recorded b the exercise machines at the Y, but I know not to trust those either. (I am also, given the 13 pound drop in the last few days, seriously questioning the accuracy of the bathroom scale...)

Does anyone know why the numbers generated by the MyFitness Pal software are so high? And is there a way to estimate them fairly accurately without a heart rate monitor?

I know that. Thats why when explaining in that "quote" right there I said that that is what it is logging into this website.

MFP can only give an estimate and it is often high. Most suggest eating back 50-75% of the calories it logs.

As for why they are so high not sure...I know when I do a HIIT routine from fitnessblender it gives a range and MFP is always on the high side of what they give...so for example my HIIT is 23mins...range is 163-223 calories burned..MFP will always be in the 200's.

All right. Every body take a step back. I realize that it is insane calorie burn. I just did what I read to do on here. I do 4 miles a day walking at 3.5 and an hour a day of circuit training every other day switching to 20 mins. I have to lose weight because I am enlisting in the Military and logging the exercises in this site, its saying that's the amount of calories I am burning. I am pretty new with this whole thing so no I do not have a heart monitor or anything that can tell me exactly how many calories I am burning during each workout.

that does not sound like a 1100 cal burn

Yeah as a 6' tall man doing 55 minutes of rather intense aerobic cardio where my heartrate maintains at 85% of max through about 45 minutes of it I log that as being 400 calories. When I circuit train for 40 minutes with weights I log that as about 200 calories.

I would echo the sentiment that you are overestimating your burn there.

I think you might do better eating about 1900 to 2000 calories a day based on your exercise and that 2660 is too high.

Unfortunately any estimation of calorie burn in any app is far too high.
Using my HRM gives me average between 50 and 70% of any estimate, no matter how accurate they try to be (entering weight and age and whatever)
Was quite a shock in the beginning as work out is not (yet) my favourite time spend. ;-)