Do you overestimate or underestimate your calories?

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i_love_vinegar
i_love_vinegar Posts: 2,092 Member
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When you enter in your food into your Food Diary on here, do you believe you put an accurate number, or over/under estimate?

I purposely overestimate, since I am too lazy to measure out what I eat. :laugh:

And you?
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  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
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    I'm very accurate because I weigh almost everything, and what I don't weigh (liquids) I measure.
  • hush7hush
    hush7hush Posts: 2,273 Member
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.
  • noexcuses1218
    noexcuses1218 Posts: 332 Member
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.

    what she does.
  • brvanover
    brvanover Posts: 52
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.


    This is what I do too!
  • BabyDuchess
    BabyDuchess Posts: 353 Member
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    Mine's as accurate as I can get it. :flowerforyou:
  • maryd4love
    maryd4love Posts: 164 Member
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.

    That is what I do as well.
  • absolament
    absolament Posts: 278 Member
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    I try to keep mine fairly accurate.
  • newtswifey07
    newtswifey07 Posts: 45
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.

    That is what I do as well.

    Ditto!
  • fireyes
    fireyes Posts: 31 Member
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    I try to keep it accurate, but I think I might underestimate how much I eat on accident, but not by much. I also underestimate how much I exercise, so it's all good. :]
  • Balishdear
    Balishdear Posts: 60
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.


    ^ This
  • lingading
    lingading Posts: 259 Member
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.

    what she does.

    Samesies.
  • JLH3188
    JLH3188 Posts: 3
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    I think I tend to underestimate my calories more often than not. It would be easier to weigh/measure everything, but I just don't have the time with my job and everything.
  • kklindsey
    kklindsey Posts: 382 Member
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    wow, I am surprised that so many of you don't weigh and measure. I weigh, measure and read the label for everything I eat unless I am away from home at a party where I can't easily look it up. My best friend once told me after seeing me get out a teaspoon for butter "no wonder you weigh less than me" lol. for me it is too easy to be off by 100's of calories and I know myself and I would say it looked like less than it was, subconciously.
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
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    I underestimate I feel, but I don't eat back my exercise calories so there is an extra buffer built in for stuff like that. On days that i don't exercise, I still underestimate but leave at least a 200 calorie gap to cover that.

    i also have an HRM that gives a pretty accurate calorie burn.
  • hush7hush
    hush7hush Posts: 2,273 Member
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    Also with that, I do measure things, but I don't have a food scale, so I approximate.
    But for example, my wheat thins box says a serving is X-grams, or 16 crackers. I will only eat 15 crackers, then log it as the serving, just to be sure.
  • kitinboots
    kitinboots Posts: 589 Member
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    I over estimate.
    And then I under estimate calories burned.
    Basically to cover the general margin of error.

    This. Because I don't measure my food or trust my own judgement, and because I read about MFP calorie burned estimates being exaggerated. When I get home, get a HRM and my own kitchen back I will be more accurate.
  • exercisechic927
    exercisechic927 Posts: 64 Member
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    I underestimate I feel, but I don't eat back my exercise calories so there is an extra buffer built in for stuff like that. On days that i don't exercise, I still underestimate but leave at least a 200 calorie gap to cover that.

    i also have an HRM that gives a pretty accurate calorie burn.



    That is exactly what I do.....
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
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    I don't measure but I try to do my best to be accurate by eyeballing and reading labels. Same with exercise.
  • jbucci1186
    jbucci1186 Posts: 440 Member
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    if i don't have it exactly measured, i definitely over estimate... would rather be under and say i'm over than the opposite!

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