Eating calories I have burned..please help!

adp81us
adp81us Posts: 3 Member
edited March 5 in Health and Weight Loss
I am on day 4 of using the myfitness pal app. I'm slightly confused. I'm trying to lose at least one pound per week. Yesterday I put in my calories and the app increased my calories for the day. So today my calorie limit is 1880 I Ate 1740 of those. I earned 1365 exercise calories. So now it states I have 1505 calories remaining. If I eat those 1505 calories , will I lose weight .
Please help???

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  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    What did you do to burn 1300+ calories? That sounds highly unlikely.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I am on day 4 of using the myfitness pal app. I'm slightly confused. I'm trying to lose at least one pound per week. Yesterday I put in my calories and the app increased my calories for the day. So today my calorie limit is 1880 I Ate 1740 of those. I earned 1365 exercise calories. So now it states I have 1505 calories remaining. If I eat those 1505 calories , will I lose weight .
    Please help???

    I have just come back from a 75 minute training session with a personal trainer, wearing a heart rate monitor I got 638 calories ...I would eat back about 70% of them...I sweated buckets and worked hard


    What on earth did you do to earn that many ? MFP overestimates cut it in half ...but that's still a lot
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Agreed - that sounds very high for exercise burn! Be careful about logging incidentals like cooking, cleaning and the like as those are somewhat accounted for even at a sedentary setting. Just log actual intentional exercise/activity.

    Most MFP exercise calorie burns tend to be a bit high anyway so ony plan on eating back around half to 2/3rds.
  • adp81us
    adp81us Posts: 3 Member
    So according to mfp. I earned that many calories by doing 90 minutes on the elliptical trainer.
  • wyattj99
    wyattj99 Posts: 454 Member
    Simple. What is your calorie intake daily? I know what works for me is not to eat back all of those calories because like any app it's not on target.
  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    How did you get the calorie burn? The machine? MFP?

    You should invest in a Heart Rate Monitor, they're relatively cheap and quite accurate.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    To do MFP as intended you would eat back the exercise calories. However you need to be accurate with the amount of calories you're entering. I would eat back some of those calories, but no more than half since that number is so extreme.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    So according to mfp. I earned that many calories by doing 90 minutes on the elliptical trainer.

    MFP inflates numbers. Look for a second opinion. Calorie burns depend upon height, weight, age, gender, exertion level & more. Look for something that considers lots of data. A HRM (heart rate monitor) is good for steady state cardio....elliptical would qualify.

    This calculator is generic it asks for your weight & low, med, hi intensity

    http://caloriesburnedhq.com/calories-burned-on-elliptical/

    Another one with more data......open up + sign to choose elliptical

    http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc
  • jakichan
    jakichan Posts: 109 Member
    They're *fairly* accurate, but it still safer to assume it overestimates. Especially if it's on an exercise you've been doing for a long time.
  • kangaroux92
    kangaroux92 Posts: 188 Member
    90 Min on the elliptical only comes up as 1090 but i like to think of these as estimations because this doesn't account for how fast you are going on it or the resistance used so i wouldnt eat back any more than 300 -400 calories of exercise regardless of how much you burn. and your daily intake already is high 1800 cal is plenty of food for a woman, even if you are very tall, so i would check the accuracy of that aswell. im 5'5 179 pounds and try to eat no more than 1500 cal a day with exercise and 1200- 1300 without, that works OK for me but i still need to cut back. and never add in cleaning chores etc.
  • adp81us
    adp81us Posts: 3 Member
    I was thinking 1880 was a lot of calories. These are the calories that MFP gave me to lose at least 1 pound per week. I was really unsure about how net calories work and exercise calories. This is all new to me. I most definitely want to lose weight and not gain anymore.
  • Florida_Superstar
    Florida_Superstar Posts: 194 Member
    I agree with what everyone else said about how easy it is to overestimate calories burned from exercise, so be careful with that.

    This is just my personal experience, but the calories that MFP estimated for me to maintain my weight must be a little too high. I'm very accurate with measuring and weighing food, and I do maintain my weight. But I also exercise very hard 5-6x per week, and I only eat the base calories recommended by MFP, not the ones I "earned" from exercise. When I eat more than the base number, I start to gain, so if I really ate my totals including exercise, it would be too much for me. My goal is just to maintain, not lose, but I would expect the same principles to apply and that I *would* lose since I'm eating less than recommended. I just mentioned all that to say that the formula may not be exact for everyone. Since you are new, you may have to experiment and adjust based on how your body responds. Good luck in losing weight and being healthy!
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