Don't count the Exercise
bruceyoooo
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I have used this app many times and this time find it very effective for my weight lose.
I do not add my Exercise calories towards my daily calorie count.
This way if I happen to go over a little it'a covered by the Exercise calories burned. So far very effective for me.
I do not add my Exercise calories towards my daily calorie count.
This way if I happen to go over a little it'a covered by the Exercise calories burned. So far very effective for me.
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Great if it works for you, but poor blanket advice overall.19
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Great if it works for you, but poor blanket advice overall.
This^
Some people exercise a lot. Some people exercise very little.
Some people just want the number on the scale. Some people want fat loss & eating at a large deficit makes it harder to support existing lean muscle mass.
Some people accurately log food (digital food scale). Some people just guesstimate.3 -
Effective (but not optimal) for weight loss perhaps but not for maintenance.
If you have had to use the app many times perhaps it's the maintenance part you need to get better at?
By the way I would be 5000 cals under goal last week if I didn't count my exercise.
Context is important when giving advice. There's a world of difference between "don't count the exercise" and "I don't count the exercise".8 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »I have used this app many times and this time find it very effective for my weight lose.
I do not add my Exercise calories towards my daily calorie count.
This way if I happen to go over a little it'a covered by the Exercise calories burned. So far very effective for me.
Some do. Some dont.
Really depends on how much you actually burn vs how much you eat.
Overtime you may not be able to burn as much since you arent fueling your body properly enough to ask it to keep up with your fitness goals.1 -
Yeah, OK. So what happens when I cycle 100+ km?
"Don't count the exercise" is all very well and good if you don't do much exercise, but if you do, you need the fuel to keep going.5 -
i counted every single calorie burned while losing 100 pounds, not only counted every one, but ate every single one as well. /shrug.8
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MFP uses the NEAT method, and as such the system is designed for exercise calories to be eaten back. However, many consider the burns given by MFP to be inflated and only eat a percentage, such as 50%, back.
When I weigh my food on a digital food scale, eat the calories MFP gives me, eat some (but not all) of my exercise calories, I lose as expected over the course of a month.
People who don't use a digital food scale are usually eating more than they think and these people may indeed not need to eat moderate exercise calories back.2 -
Everyone take notice. I used the word "me" 3x and "my" 1x. This is what works for me and I just thought I would share the experience.
Cheers1 -
That's great advice 'for you'! I do log my exercise calories, but I tend to under log those, and over log my food intake, kind of to the same point. Narrows the margin of error; it has worked for me for two years, and I've lost 80 lbs this way, eating what I want. I DO eat back at least half of my exercise calories tho, and I love food, so I make a point of burning as many calories as possible when I workout.0
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bruceyoooo wrote: »Everyone take notice. I used the word "me" 3x and "my" 1x. This is what works for me and I just thought I would share the experience.
Cheers
Yup and you will have lost muscle while you lost weight congrats on your wonderful feat of self denial and self abuse by not fueling your body.3 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »I have used this app many times and this time find it very effective for my weight lose.
I do not add my Exercise calories towards my daily calorie count.
This way if I happen to go over a little it'a covered by the Exercise calories burned. So far very effective for me.
Some posters seem disturbed by the lack of precision in recording food and exercise. I imagine this is because so many people post questions on here about why they aren't losing as expected and the answer is usually to tighten up their logging. If less precision works for the OP for now, then I say stick with it. If it ever stops working you know what to do...tighten it up.
However if the OP is ignoring so much exercise as equivalent to a 100km bike ride that's probably an unhealthy method.0 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »Everyone take notice. I used the word "me" 3x and "my" 1x. This is what works for me and I just thought I would share the experience.
Cheers
But the title of the thread was more "advice" than example.
And just to add, I lost 125 lbs eating every last calorie I earned from exercising.5 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »Everyone take notice. I used the word "me" 3x and "my" 1x. This is what works for me and I just thought I would share the experience.
Cheers
But the title of the thread was more "advice" than example.
And just to add, I lost 125 lbs eating every last calorie I earned from exercising.
Exactly! Someone reading the title of the thread could take that as advise not to count the exercise. You said don't do this and then you gave an example of how you don't do it. If you are using mfp for your goal it is designed for you to eat back your exercise calories. If you don't have your goal set at the minimum and the only exercise you do is minimal maybe a 20 minute walk per day then you can probably get by without using those calories. But if you are already at the minimum and you exercise a lot you need to eat back a portion of those calories to fuel your body.2 -
Agreed, the title of the post is phrased as an instruction to others: "don't" do this, rather than "I don't" do this. I am training for a half marathon, so my workouts routinely burn 500-1000 calories or more. I can't burn that many calories and not eat any of them back. I'll be sick if I try that, plus I won't be giving my body enough nutrients. OP, do what works for you, but keep in mind that it doesn't work for everyone.2
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Jeesh. Everyone needs to get a life. Congrats everyone who lost the weight. I am sure not everyone followed MFP to the tee
Enjoy your day everyone.0 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »Jeesh. Everyone needs to get a life. Congrats everyone who lost the weight. I am sure not everyone followed MFP to the tee
Enjoy your day everyone.
Well that's not a nice thing to say. I mean, different things work for different people. We're not clones of each other. I don't count calories that the machine shows me. I dock off a lot of what it shows me, and just log that. I might be losing more. Who knows. I sometimes eat the calories back. Usually in the form of a protein bar.2 -
I log cardio but not strength training, as I do YouTube videos I wouldn't know where to start logging them, but that's fine as I don't eat all my exercise calories back anyway.0
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bruceyoooo wrote: »Jeesh. Everyone needs to get a life. Congrats everyone who lost the weight. I am sure not everyone followed MFP to the tee
Enjoy your day everyone.
Not sure why you're so angry? You created a post for all to see and contribute to, what were you expecting to happen? Everyone's weight loss struggles are different, our successes, and how we manage to achieve them are different too. But that doesn't make them wrong. Nor does it make your method wrong.2 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »Everyone take notice. I used the word "me" 3x and "my" 1x. This is what works for me and I just thought I would share the experience.
Cheers
But the title of the thread was more "advice" than example.
And just to add, I lost 125 lbs eating every last calorie I earned from exercising.
There's that, and it's in the General Diet and Weight Loss Help subforum. There wasn't a question, so this would seem to be, as mentioned, advice. And other successful posters here pointed out that the (apparently not) advice really isn't particularly good. :shrug:3 -
Exactly. Issue is posters ridicule what works for others. It's all good have a great day everybody.0
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bruceyoooo wrote: »Exactly. Issue is posters ridicule what works for others. It's all good have a great day everybody.
No one is ridiculing you though. Just conversation.2 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »Exactly. Issue is posters ridicule what works for others. It's all good have a great day everybody.
Questioning the validity of your advice isn't the same thing as ridicule.5 -
bruceyoooo wrote: »Exactly. Issue is posters ridicule what works for others. It's all good have a great day everybody.
No one is ridiculing what worked for you. But lots of people come on the "general diet and weight loss help" forum for advice. If I think that the advice is not necessarily good then I will say so. It may work for some not to log exercise, but it is not good advice for everyone.4 -
i counted every single calorie burned while losing 100 pounds, not only counted every one, but ate every single one as well. /shrug.
Hey Besaro,
Can you help me out with your comments...
Ive been logging my food since January and have been stoked with going from 108kg to 89kg.
This has happened with little to know exercise other then some basic cardio whilst coaching sport and a social bball game once a week.
Im now at the point where I have plateaued and the next step in going lower is the exercise part (funny that).
Im going to start the Couch to 5k program (cardio) and endevour to go to the gym 2-3 times a week.
So what do you mean by you ate every single calorie burned?
My ignoramus view would be if in is less then out then you will lose weight?
Thanks in advance to you or anyone else who responds.0 -
i counted every single calorie burned while losing 100 pounds, not only counted every one, but ate every single one as well. /shrug.
Hey Besaro,
Can you help me out with your comments...
Ive been logging my food since January and have been stoked with going from 108kg to 89kg.
This has happened with little to know exercise other then some basic cardio whilst coaching sport and a social bball game once a week.
Im now at the point where I have plateaued and the next step in going lower is the exercise part (funny that).
Im going to start the Couch to 5k program (cardio) and endevour to go to the gym 2-3 times a week.
So what do you mean by you ate every single calorie burned?
My ignoramus view would be if in is less then out then you will lose weight?
Thanks in advance to you or anyone else who responds.
I'm assuming she ate every exercise calorie burned.............
If you are using calorie goals set by My Fitness Pal (MFP) you got a calorie deficit BEFORE exercise. MFP gives you additional calories when you log exercise. So eating back exercise calories ideally gets you back to the deficit you signed up for.
Other calculators may add planned exercise up front......TDEE is one example. If you know that exercise will be consistent and don't want the up/down of more calories on exercise days and fewer calories on rest days.....then use TDEE less a deficit and don't log exercise. TDEE less a deficit will average out the weekly exercise calories.1
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