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Trying this out

nhgirl30
nhgirl30 Posts: 52 Member
edited September 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Hi everyone,
I used pen and paper for calorie counting for years. I am finally using technology to its full potential, I am not sure I like it yet. It seems to be more time consuming than the writing it down. I think it is because I have all the calorie counts in my head, now I have to search for foods. With my exercise I don't like to enter it because it gives me more calories to eat and I don't want to eat the calories I just burned. Does anyone know if there is a way to log exercise and not have it add calories to your bank?
Good luck to everyone in their weight loss journey. It is not easy but so worth it.

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  • mommyoftwins05
    mommyoftwins05 Posts: 645 Member
    But isn't it bad not eat your calories you've burned? I'm new to this..
  • etjaneausten
    etjaneausten Posts: 36 Member
    I did the pen and paper version for a long time as well. After a few days on MFP I realized that many of my foods are repetitive, and don't require a lot of search.
    You may be able to create an exercise 'custom made' and just enter a description and no calories. Not sure, I love to see my work-out calories piling up!
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