Exercise Diary?
Brandi92809
Posts: 78 Member
Hey! I was wondering if you dont add exercise that you did to your diary if that is a good idea or not? I dont add my exercise and hope it wont mess me up later o.O Thanks!
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It's a good idea to eat back a portion of your burned calories. Based on that fact alone... I'd log it.... So you know how much to eat back0
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It depends. MFP is meant for you to eat back at least a portion of your exercise calories. You may lose faster not logging it, but you also may stand to lose more muscle and/or not give your body enough fuel. If your exercise is consistent, you may want to consider using a TDEE calculator to figure out how much to eat including exercise calories, which then you would not need to log.1
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you can always add the exercise to track it, but change the calories burned to zero (or whatever lesser amount you choose)0
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Thanks everyone! I will add it and see what happens0
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I never log exercises to my mfp log. in my opinion MFP gives average that are based on a large population pool. Everybody's going to exercise at different intensity levels.
During my weight loss process I never lock the exercises. It help me lose the weight a little quicker I'd say out of the 80 pounds I lost maybe 10 pounds were due to exercise. After I went into maintenance I probably lost another 12 pounds trying to figure out my maintenance work vs activity level.
Remember use mfp as a guide. It's not the Bible. Part of the process of being successful with this is educating yourself learning it's like going to school. Good luck in your journey1 -
MFP (as a whole) is not accurate with the caloric tallying. As such, I would be very cautious about putting any real significance behind the number(s) you may see.0
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BasicGreatGuy wrote: »MFP (as a whole) is not accurate with the caloric tallying. As such, I would be very cautious about putting any real significance behind the number(s) you may see.
Endomondo, Strava, Garmin Connect, Fitbit, Polar, Moove, S-Health, iHealth, and even MyFitnessPal .... all of those use different Caloric burn logarithms to factor what you're burning. None of them are accurate. The trick is pick one use it for a few weeks and see what happens with your scale/fitness and adjust accordingly.0 -
I don't eat my exercise calories yet. I have a large fat storage that keeps me fueled so far. If I start experiencing fatigue then I will re think it.1
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Thanks so much everyone!0
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