Exercise - negative calories

Bearsquare
Bearsquare Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I would like to know how to turn off the option that adds calorie counts to your daily calories when you exercise. I do not want to add the calories to my daily calorie goal.

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  • xKoalaBearx
    xKoalaBearx Posts: 181 Member
    I think you need to sign up for the paid version of MFP. I just try and match the "Goal" number with the "Food" number and ignore the "Exercise" and "Remaining" numbers.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited October 2015
    I just change the calorie burned amount when I enter the exercise to "1." Sixty minutes on the elliptical? 1 calorie. 45 minutes of weightlifting? 1 calorie. 53 minutes jogging? 1 calorie ;)
  • beemerphile1
    beemerphile1 Posts: 1,710 Member
    unsync (is that a word?) whatever device is adding the exercise calories.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    If you want to log exercise but not eat back calories you should probably just use a different app. MFP doesn't really allow you to record useful information when it comes to exercise. Other apps make it way easier to figure out what you did last time. (I recently started using fitocracy and it is pretty decent)
  • dayzeyblue
    dayzeyblue Posts: 15 Member
    Go into Diary Settings and click the box that says "Enable Negative Adjustments" sounds like it would do the opposite but makes it so that it won't subtract out any exercise calories burned.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    dayzeyblue wrote: »
    Go into Diary Settings and click the box that says "Enable Negative Adjustments" sounds like it would do the opposite but makes it so that it won't subtract out any exercise calories burned.

    That isn't what that option does though. When you check that option, what you're actually doing is telling MFP to subtract calories from your daily allowance if the activity from your synced device burns fewer calories than the activity level you chose when setting up your goals.

    Example: I told MFP I was lightly active, but I sit on the couch all day watching TV on Saturday. My Fitbit records very few steps, so MFP subtracts calories from my daily allowance because I didn't meet the threshold for "Lightly active" on that day.
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    Don't log exercise - that simple.
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