Food Calories Vs Exercise Calories

Devinec67
Devinec67 Posts: 11 Member
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Is there a way to stop having the food intake calories and the exercise calories not combined as net calories on MFP. I just want them to calculate separately so I see the remaining calories for the day on the food intake.

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  • earlyxer
    earlyxer Posts: 240 Member
    Don't add the exercise?
  • RllyGudTweetr
    RllyGudTweetr Posts: 2,019 Member
    Several folks who use some variation of the TDEE method manually change the calories from exercise burned to "1," so that there's no real impact on calories remaining.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    edited October 2014
    RllyGudTweetr wrote: »
    Several folks who use some variation of the TDEE method manually change the calories from exercise burned to "1," so that there's no real impact on calories remaining.
    This is what I do. If you want the "actual" calories burned, you could put it in the note function. Keep in mind that I find the MFP estimations for calorie burn seem pretty darn high. When I used to eat calories back I only counted 2/3rds of the calories that MFP says I burned.
  • Devinec67
    Devinec67 Posts: 11 Member
    Thanks that's what I thought. I was looking to track the exercise separate so it picks up on the new Apple Healthkit, that way I can see the eating/exercise charts better.
  • Patttience
    Patttience Posts: 975 Member
    Focus on your diet to achieve your weightloss. Exercise is ok when you feel like it but a lot of people get a big guilt trip when they lose interest/get an injury and can't do it/get stressed or busy and can't do it/go on holiday and can't do it and so on and so forth, and it throws them off the whole game. Just keep that in mind and forego the whole guilt trip thing. If you want to, you can be guilt free about losing all your weight without any exercise beyond your usual activity. It's possible. I"ve just done it for the last nine months.

    There is an actual formula you can work out your calories fairly easily. Google how to calculate your calories and the word formula. If you can find and use the formula then you can play about with it as much as you like to see what difference exercise makes to your calorie allowance.

    But i must say because i don't trust the way most gadgets and lists calculate calories for exercise, so i think the best option is to take the one that makes an overall average which is the one used in the formula i've mentioned and other TDEE calculators. So example if you choose the light exercise option, there would be a factor of something like 1.2 which you multiply by. I know that won't make much sense now but it will when you find the formula.

    The main difference exercise makes to a diet is it allows you to eat more food rather makes you lose weight faster. And that's not just me saying so. A lot of research says the same thing. The message has been slow to filter through but it is finally filtering through. Of course anyone invested in you doing a lot of exercise will ignore that news. For instance the show biggest loser.

    That said, i'm not saying exercise is bad. I'm just saying it doesn't really make weightloss any more successful and it certainly doesn't ensure permanent weightloss. I've done it all ways and that is why this year i took a path to lose weight that didn't depend on exercise.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    The website operates on net intake method. Unless you manually switched to TDEE, you are supposed to eat your non-exercise calorie needs and then log any exercise you DO perform, after which you eat back the exercise calories. Not eating them back just makes your deficit larger, but you should not be aiming to do so. Especially if you use the numbers MFP gives you, as they are likely to be too low. You should be eating at least 50% of them, I eat back all of them and will lower that if I am not losing 3-4lbs a month. But I was losing a bit too quickly when I first switched to net, which si why I am eating them all back.

    So.. basically, food and exercise are shown separately on the app, and on the website they are merged. Which doesn't matter, because in the end the number that is listed on the website WITH exercise is now what you SHOULD be eating. If you find that eating them all back slows your losses, you can either lower your net goal or drop down to eating 75% of the exercise cals (and just log 75% of the time you worked out so that you don't have leftover cals).

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