Do you overestimate or underestimate your calories?
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i_love_vinegar
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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?
I purposely overestimate, since I am too lazy to measure out what I eat. :laugh:
And you?
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I'm very accurate because I weigh almost everything, and what I don't weigh (liquids) I measure.0
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I over estimate.
And then I under estimate calories burned.
Basically to cover the general margin of error.0 -
I over estimate.
And then I under estimate calories burned.
Basically to cover the general margin of error.
what she does.0 -
I over estimate.
And then I under estimate calories burned.
Basically to cover the general margin of error.
This is what I do too!0 -
Mine's as accurate as I can get it. :flowerforyou:0
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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.0 -
I try to keep mine fairly accurate.0
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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!0 -
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. :]0
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I over estimate.
And then I under estimate calories burned.
Basically to cover the general margin of error.
^ This0 -
I over estimate.
And then I under estimate calories burned.
Basically to cover the general margin of error.
what she does.
Samesies.0 -
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.0
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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.0
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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.....0 -
I don't measure but I try to do my best to be accurate by eyeballing and reading labels. Same with exercise.0
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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!0
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