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

price0909
price0909 Posts: 50 Member
edited November 18 in Getting Started
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: 9,487 Member
    Then don't log it. Or log it as 1 calorie.
  • price0909
    price0909 Posts: 50 Member
    edited May 2015
    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
    Manually put in 1 calorie in the Calories Burned window.
  • ksy1969
    ksy1969 Posts: 700 Member
    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
    So just don't eat it...? I don't see what the problem is here.
  • Donna_Byrd
    Donna_Byrd Posts: 9 Member
    I try to look at at it as extra calories burned that are helping to lose wieght
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    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
    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
    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
    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: 25,616 Member
    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
    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: 41,865 Member
    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
    premium allows you to turn it off.
  • arbragg
    arbragg Posts: 73 Member
    Two questions, how do you upgrade & what does the upgrade give you?
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  • Upstate_Dunadan
    Upstate_Dunadan Posts: 435 Member
    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
    Damn....I am in Canada and it's not available yet :(
  • hobbeskastiel
    hobbeskastiel Posts: 221 Member
    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
    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.
  • CarynCharB
    CarynCharB Posts: 215 Member
    I go in everyday and delete it. I am so frustrated by it and that you have to upgrade to get rid of it.....Grrrrrrr
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    ignore it..you (and your will power) are stronger than the software
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  • mattbell007
    mattbell007 Posts: 45 Member
    I signed up for the annual Premium version of MFP; it cost me about $50. I figured it was worth it, because MFP helped me lose 106 pounds so far (I want to lose a few more pounds, but my wife tells me I'm there already.) I've logged every day for more than 1100 days, so I'm definitely already on board with MFP. It's way cheaper than any other "plan".

    You can upgrage by clicking on the Premium tab across the top of the Web version, or selecting it from the list of pages in the app.

    Why I upgraded to Premium (besides having used the free version continuously for more than 3 years):
    • No ads
    • Track Nutrients by grams instead of percentages
    • Set whether to add exercise calories to your daily calorie goal
    • Set different calorie goals for different days of the week

    I have had mixed results with the last one, but I like the feature, because most of my exercise is aerobic exercise, but two days a week I lift weights. Lifting really doesn't add any countable calorie burn, but my regular goal is to eat at a deficit. I don't want to do that on days when I lift weights. On those days, my goal is set to my maintenance calories instead of at a deficit.

    There are other features you may end up liking; they are listed on the Premium tab.
  • Upstate_Dunadan
    Upstate_Dunadan Posts: 435 Member
    DWBalboa wrote: »
    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.

    Depending on what type of workouts you do, even HRM calorie burn is questionable. I use a Microsoft Band and the calorie burn it gives me is what I enter in MFP, but since I use TDEE to set my daily calories, I'm covered in those cases where I think or know it's probably off. But, since my splits are consistent (same routine, rest, etc.) it's always going to be off by the same amount so the calories burn and HR tracking is useful for comparison sake.
  • mrschasing
    mrschasing Posts: 1 Member
    I do not eat my exercise calories, but I do like to see them in my remaining calories. I track my personal deficit for the day. If I closeout each day with 1,000 calories remaining I should lose 2 pounds a week.
  • mattbell007
    mattbell007 Posts: 45 Member
    I agree that calorie burns are estimates no matter how you measure them. As I've lost weight, movement is easier, and therefore burns fewer calories. I think this effect is stronger than the one MFP builds into its calorie-burn estimates. On the other hand, as I've lost weight and lifted weights, I've become more active generally, meaning my "sedentary" calorie burn is higher than the MFP estimate. Those two errors counteract each other. Even TDEE is an estimate. Food calories are estimates, even for packaged, pre-portioned foods.

    If you are consistent at what you do, you can use your own experience to help you decide if an adjustment is needed in the estimates. If you are disciplined about what you do, adjustments will work.

    Consistency is the key. Count things the same way every time.

    It's like shooting a rifle. If you get 5 holes in a small group on the target paper, it doesn't matter that you are nowhere near the bullseye. You can adjust to get there. If you shoot the target 5 times, and the holes are all over, it is impossible to know what to adjust. Except that you need more consistency in your shooting.
  • price0909
    price0909 Posts: 50 Member
    veganbaum wrote: »
    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?
    What is TDEE?

  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    edited May 2015
    price0909 wrote: »
    veganbaum wrote: »
    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?
    What is TDEE?

    MFP method gives a calorie goal so that you lose weight without exercise (BMR+Daily Activity). As far as I'm aware it's the only site to do this. So when you exercise, you should eat a bit more than on days you don't. It helps to keep you in a safe deficit. Not eating back the exercise calories can make your deficit to large (make it go over the recommended amount of weight loss per week).

    TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure (so BMR + Daily Activity + Exercise)
    TDEE method involves taking subtracting a percentage off of this number and that is your calorie goal every day no matter what exercise you did or didn't do. The reason for this is that your exercise calorie burns are already accounted for and balanced across your week.

    An example:
    MFP says to eat 1200 + exercise calories.
    TDEE-20% says I should eat around 1900 calories.

    With the TDEE method, my weight loss per week would be about 0.9lbs.
    MFP is set to 1.5, but is giving me 1.4 because I am no longer able to create a 1.5 lb per week deficit from my Daily Activity (without exercise) calorie burn.
    My average weekly loss over the last 30 Days has been 1.4 lbs with an average total intake of 1875 (average NET of 1350...150 over the NET goal MFP gave me).
  • price0909
    price0909 Posts: 50 Member
    So if I am not working out everyday (or yet to start...) I should probably stick to the MFP method? Until I can get in a rhythm or working out
  • price0909
    price0909 Posts: 50 Member
    I just dont like it to add my daily fitbit step/calories back.. that is just regular everyday moving... I guess I will have to make that determination each day from a work out to regular necessary movement.
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