I want to use the exercise log, but keep consistent food goals

marystork
marystork Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I've been logging food intake on MFP for a couple of weeks - today I decided to start logging exercise as well, but it changes my calorie and carb goals.
I'm following the BSD diet - 800 calories and minimising carb intake, so I want to stick to those targets AND do exercise. Is there anywhere I can turn off the calories that I've used exercising being added to daily calories?
The general point of exercising is to increase the gap between calories consumed and expended - not to exercise so that I can eat more.

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    800 calories? How do you even have the energy to exercise? I would not recommend exercise if you're eating such a dangerously low amount.

    But what you want to do can only be done in premium. Or just log exercise as 1 calorie.
  • MsBuzzkillington
    MsBuzzkillington Posts: 171 Member
    It's not that you are exercising "so that you can eat more" when you exercise your body NEEDS more. Your calorie goals change because you're now burning more calories, thus, needing to eat more calories. You can "turn it off" by not logging exercise.

    800 sounds really really low, it's far too low for your body to properly function and get proper nutrients especially if you are also exercising regularly.
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    Are you being monitored by a doctor?
  • andrektan
    andrektan Posts: 196 Member
    Dnarules wrote: »
    Are you being monitored by a doctor?

    I second this question. An 800 calorie VLCD should be medically supervised.
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    Ugh I'm getting hungry just reading this post.
  • lauraesh0384
    lauraesh0384 Posts: 463 Member
    I would be passed out on the floor if I only ate 800 calories.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Use a different site to log your exercise. This site doesn't do a great job of it for a number of reasons, it's not really meant to keep track of all the details of what you did, just your calories and macros.

    Also eat more.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 19,287 Member
    At 800 calories, you don't need to increase any gap. You're eating at a dangerously low level as it is.
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