Turn off: You've earned ### extra calories from exercise today

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price0909
price0909 Posts: 50 Member
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How do I turn this off: You've earned ### extra calories from exercise today
I dont want it to give me extra calories in my totals.
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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,488 Member
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    Then don't log it. Or log it as 1 calorie.
  • price0909
    price0909 Posts: 50 Member
    edited May 2015
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    I want to Log my exersize.. I just dont want it to give me extra food for the day
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
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    Manually put in 1 calorie in the Calories Burned window.
  • ksy1969
    ksy1969 Posts: 700 Member
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    PaytraB wrote: »
    Manually put in 1 calorie in the Calories Burned window.

    This is what I do. Or, you can pay for the premium version.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
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    So just don't eat it...? I don't see what the problem is here.
  • Donna_Byrd
    Donna_Byrd Posts: 9 Member
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    I try to look at at it as extra calories burned that are helping to lose wieght
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
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    You have a few options:
    • Upgrade to premium
    • Log exercise with 1 cal burn (I think you might even be able to do 0.1)
    • Don't log your workouts
    • Write your workouts into the Note section of the exercise diary and don't log them
    • Ignore that it's adding calories and just eat to what calorie amount you want to stick to
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    Are you using TDEE to get your calorie goal? If not, you should eat back at least a portion of your calories.
  • veganbaum
    veganbaum Posts: 1,865 Member
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    TavistockToad wrote: »
    Are you using TDEE to get your calorie goal? If not, you should eat back at least a portion of your calories.

    Agree. Otherwise, why do you want to turn it off?
  • Gizmo20783
    Gizmo20783 Posts: 36 Member
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    I wish I could turn it off as well because I never eat back my calories burned. So I either ignore it or just don't log it. Personally if I'm not going to eat it back there's really no point in logging it IMO.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,932 Member
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    price0909 wrote: »
    How do I turn this off: You've earned ### extra calories from exercise today
    I dont want it to give me extra calories in my totals.

    1) You know you can just ignore it, right?

    2) If you exercise a lot, it is actually a good idea to eat about half your exercise calories back.

  • kmarino85
    kmarino85 Posts: 1 Member
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    I have this same problem. I'm doing IIFYM and I don't want it to keep changing my goals. Otherwise, why bother logging at all? I like seeing what calories I burned, but it's silly that it changes my custom goals.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    You don't, MFP is a NEAT method calculator. You account for exercise activity and thus the requisite calories by logging exercise when you do it and thus getting extra calories for that extra activity.

    If you're doing TDEE then you don't need to log exercise into MFP; as such, there wouldn't be an issue.
  • joepratt503
    joepratt503 Posts: 191 Member
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    premium allows you to turn it off.
  • arbragg
    arbragg Posts: 73 Member
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    Two questions, how do you upgrade & what does the upgrade give you?
  • Upstate_Dunadan
    Upstate_Dunadan Posts: 435 Member
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    This is one of the reasons I upgraded to premium. I used the new setting to turn this off and now can enter my exercise and see it, but it doesn't affect my daily calories (I use TDEE). That along with a few other things (setting macros by gram) made the annual plan (works out to $4.08 or so a month) worth it.
  • arbragg
    arbragg Posts: 73 Member
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    Damn....I am in Canada and it's not available yet :(
  • hobbeskastiel
    hobbeskastiel Posts: 221 Member
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    I just wait and add exercise at the end of the day after i've logged all my food.
  • DWBalboa
    DWBalboa Posts: 37,259 Member
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    I think most of the points have been hit all I would add is don't use MFP for getting you exercise calorie burn in the first place, use a HRM. My burns are significantly from one to the other, and it's always higher on MFP.

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