Net calories burned???

CuteMommy88
CuteMommy88 Posts: 538 Member
edited September 27 in Health and Weight Loss
So has anyone heard of only counting the net calories burned?? meaning you take the amount of calories you burn and then subtract the amount of calories you would have burned during that time anyway...like the BMR....for example you work out for 60 mins and burn 400 cals....should you count all 400 cals????

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  • FairyMiss
    FairyMiss Posts: 1,812 Member
    too much work
  • utes09
    utes09 Posts: 561 Member
    With what MFP says I would burn just by living it equals out to be like 1.01 calories a minute. So when I exercise I always subtract the amount of time I was exercising from the calories shown burned during exercises. Like if my HRM says I burned 400 calories for 60 minutes of exercise I put in 340 calories.
  • CuteMommy88
    CuteMommy88 Posts: 538 Member
    With what MFP says I would burn just by living it equals out to be like 1.01 calories a minute. So when I exercise I always subtract the amount of time I was exercising from the calories shown burned during exercises. Like if my HRM says I burned 400 calories for 60 minutes of exercise I put in 340 calories.

    I just looked at my BMR and I would burn 1.02 per minute!! So I think I am going to start calculating like you do!!! It seems like putting in the total calorie burn is counting waaaay too many calories burned!! maybe that is why I am not losing weight LOL
  • utes09
    utes09 Posts: 561 Member
    Yeah, since it's so close to 1 calorie a minute I may round down to the nearest whole number. Like if I burned 333 for 30 minutes of exercise I'd put in 300.
  • 9percent
    9percent Posts: 3
    For most calories counting sites they report GROSS Calories. If you want to be accurate, NET calories should be counted. For example, I’m 6’2”, weigh 240 and my Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR-rate burned if lied in bed sleeping for 24 hours) is about 2300 calories burned. I work in an office (some call this sedentary lifestyle), so I multiply by 1.2 (Using Harris Benedict Equation) to get my calories burned during the day - about 2760 or about *115/hour NOT WORKING OUT.

    SO, when I weight train for 30 minutes and the site says I burn 331 cals., and I would have burned 60 calories during that half hour anyways, I subtract 60 for NET 270. (Rounded up to *120/hour burned if I did not work out, or 60/half hour).

    Hope this helps. Try http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ to get you BMR and basic calorie needs to stay the same weight (Harris Benedict Equation).
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