Excercise calories
Leighhayes12345
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hi I'm trying to lose weight and today have 4082 excercise calories. I know I did a class and spent an hour in the gym but this seems very high.
My daily calories are 1620. I'm confused.
My daily calories are 1620. I'm confused.
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Should add I'm using a Fitbit and the highest excercise calories I've had before was about 7000
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Don't eat them back. Eat only your goal and you will see a weight difference pretty quickly with that amount burned daily0
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I don't even log mine to be honest0
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Ok thanks I don't log them Fitbit does. I can't have burned that amount of calories today. I'm not going to eat them.0
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Leighhayes12345 wrote: »hi I'm trying to lose weight and today have 4082 excercise calories. I know I did a class and spent an hour in the gym but this seems very high.
My daily calories are 1620. I'm confused.
Unless you are very tall and very heavy, that is a bit much. What's that number based on? Whatever the case, I wouldn't eat much of it back. For two hours of work, that sounds bloated for sure. *maybe* eat 500 calories back...? I'd love to see some stats on you and a break-down of how you got that count.0 -
You are vastly...like majorly overestimating your calorie burns.0
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Hi I do weigh loads. 125kg but I've been going to the gym for 3 weeks. I did a 1 hour class's plus 20 mins on treadmill plus 35 mins on a bike. And I did a bit of shopping afterwards. It's the Fitbit steps adjustment that has added these calories. I have lost 13 pounds though. Up until this point the most calories I've earned was 700.0
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Leighhayes12345 wrote: »Hi I do weigh loads. 125kg but I've been going to the gym for 3 weeks. I did a 1 hour class's plus 20 mins on treadmill plus 35 mins on a bike. And I did a bit of shopping afterwards. It's the Fitbit steps adjustment that has added these calories. I have lost 13 pounds though. Up until this point the most calories I've earned was 700.
your FitBit is giving you your total "burn"...to include the calories you "burn" merely existing and doing nominal tasks. you don't burn 4K plus calories with the exercise you just described.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »You are vastly...like majorly overestimating your calorie burns.
I'm not its the Fitbit that's added them.0 -
Leighhayes12345 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »You are vastly...like majorly overestimating your calorie burns.
I'm not its the Fitbit that's added them.
then your FitBit is jacked...you don't burn 4K calories doing what you described for exercise...for example, I might..maybe burn around 1,500 calories riding 50 miles at about a 15 MPH pace...0 -
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Fitbit is giving you TDEE - and that's probably inflated. I don't use one so you'll need someone who does to help you figure out how to exclude the calories burned from just normal living (those are already accounted for by MFP so you're double -counting with Fitbit).0
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It's been ok I've been using it for a month. It's only today I've had an issue.0
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Ok thanks for all the advice everyone.0
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There is a fitbit group you can join. They are really helpful.0
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Leighhayes12345 wrote: »Should add I'm using a Fitbit and the highest excercise calories I've had before was about 700
Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), the calories necessary to maintain your current weight. If you eat less than that, you will lose weight.
Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit
Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
Ignore your Fitbit calorie goal and follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments. No need to log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both. Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that time.
You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users0
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