Which one should I believe?

enemyger
enemyger Posts: 84 Member
edited December 2015 in Health and Weight Loss
Health app/MFP or fitness machine?

This app tells me i lost 500kcal
While the treadmill machine shows only 200kcal lost?

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  • enemyger
    enemyger Posts: 84 Member
    Push
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
    are you wearing a heart rate monitor on the machine?

    How long?
    What HR zone?
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    neither they are both wrong ..

    just eat back half your exercise calories burned and you will be fine.

    Or take an average of the two and eat back half of the average…
  • enemyger
    enemyger Posts: 84 Member
    bcalvanese wrote: »
    are you wearing a heart rate monitor on the machine?

    How long?
    What HR zone?
    I dont check the heart rate zone...
    It was for 33 mins i think on 3-4mph
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    For me I REALLY have to be pushing it to burn 600 calories per hour, so 500 calories for 33 minutes doesn't sound right. I'd go with the lower 200 just to be sure.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Whatever you track, do it for a few weeks. If you are losing or gaining tweak it. All the numbers here on MFP are just estimates. They are not rock solid.
  • VykkDraygoVPR
    VykkDraygoVPR Posts: 465 Member
    200 doesn't sound too far off for me at that rate. But I'm 6'3", and just under 240. I'd go with the machine, and just track your weight loss for a few weeks. See if everything works out as you expect.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    enemyger wrote: »
    bcalvanese wrote: »
    are you wearing a heart rate monitor on the machine?

    How long?
    What HR zone?
    I dont check the heart rate zone...
    It was for 33 mins i think on 3-4mph

    200 then.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    enemyger wrote: »
    bcalvanese wrote: »
    are you wearing a heart rate monitor on the machine?

    How long?
    What HR zone?
    I dont check the heart rate zone...
    It was for 33 mins i think on 3-4mph

    Depends a bit on what you weigh, but 200 sounds a lot more in the ballpark than 500 for this ^^
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
    enemyger wrote: »
    bcalvanese wrote: »
    are you wearing a heart rate monitor on the machine?

    How long?
    What HR zone?
    I dont check the heart rate zone...
    It was for 33 mins i think on 3-4mph

    I would go with the 200 then.
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    200 about right.
  • enemyger
    enemyger Posts: 84 Member
    Ok thank you all
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Use this for future reference
    http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs.html
  • mylittlerainbow
    mylittlerainbow Posts: 822 Member
    I'd trust the machine more, because you customize that - you put in your weight (your mass is part of the force & energy equation in physics!) and it knows exactly how hard/long you worked and the calorie count will be a lot more accurate than the app here, which has been way over for me. When I log exercise, I change the calories burned that pop up on MFP to those that I have looked up specifically for me (online calculator with weight, height, age, duration or else the machine that I've specifically programmed).
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    edited December 2015
    mylittlerainbow wrote: »
    I'd trust the machine more, because you customize that - you put in your weight (your mass is part of the force & energy equation in physics!) and it knows exactly how hard/long you worked and the calorie count will be a lot more accurate than the app here, which has been way over for me. When I log exercise, I change the calories burned that pop up on MFP to those that I have looked up specifically for me (online calculator with weight, height, age, duration or else the machine that I've specifically programmed).

    Kind of the opposite of most folks' experience, which is interesting! I've never used gym equipment that allowed me to input any information about my age/gender/height/weight in order to make the output more accurate. I dunno maybe I just go to cheap gyms that don't have fancy enough equipment or something. Gym equipment where you don't enter your personal stats base the burn it tells you on an average, not overweight person. But MFP has all that information in my profile so one would assume MFP to be more accurate.

    Edit: Even so, neither one is particularly to be trusted as ACCURATE.

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