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Exercise towards calories remaining.

hygorp
hygorp Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
i don't want my exercise to count towards my calories remaining. Is there a way to turn that feature off?

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  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,354 Member
    No you can't turn that off because that is how this site works. If you really want to make your calorie deficit so much larger by not eating your exercise calorie and have more lean mass burned off, then you could always simply change the calorie number for exercise to 1 calorie, or just don't log your exercise.
  • hygorp
    hygorp Posts: 3 Member
    Darn. My Fitbit is linked to my mfp and automatically updates my workouts. I can't unlink them because I need mfp to tell my Fitbit how many calories and nutrients I had.

    Sad... Almost every exercise regimen including mfp's own articles suggest not eating them back unless you can't take the hunger :/

    Silly that they can't do that. Makes my "macro" view page almost useles.
  • babydino2015
    babydino2015 Posts: 9 Member
    I use Fitbit for exercise, sleep tracking, calories expended. I use mfp for calories in , macros and progress, They are not linked at all and it works well for me.
  • hygorp
    hygorp Posts: 3 Member
    babydino2015 wrote: »
    I use Fitbit for exercise, sleep tracking, calories expended. I use mfp for calories in , macros and progress, They are not linked at all and it works well for me.

    If I unlink them I'd have to either input my calories into Fitbit, or use it completely separated like you do.

    I was hoping for an easier marriage of the two. All I need is a "do not count exercise towards calories remaining" option. The upgrade to premium sort of hinted on being able to do that but I suppose that's not what they meant.
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