Can anyone have a look at my diary

aniqa109
aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
edited November 15 in Health and Weight Loss
I just started logging and I'm confused for today
Net calories are 1200ish
Fit bit is showing I burned 2500 calories
I get 1700 daily from mfp but after exercise I am getting net 1200 so am I right in understanding that I can have 500 more calories? Or no?

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  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    Your diary seems to be set to private. At least I can't access it. But generally, yes, if mfp says you have calories left, then you do.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    edited January 2017
    you are not weighing your food accurately.

    get a food scale. learn how to use it.

    and eat back roughly half your exercise calories once you are weighing your food correctly.
  • serindipte
    serindipte Posts: 1,557 Member
    Most people suggest only eating back half of exercise calories until you're sure of the accuracy of the device measuring your burns.
  • CafeRacer808
    CafeRacer808 Posts: 2,396 Member
    Yes, MFP is designed for you to eat back your exercise calories. Many choose to eat back 50-70% of them, because calories burned estimates tend to be over-inflated.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    I just started logging and I'm confused for today
    Net calories are 1200ish
    Fit bit is showing I burned 2500 calories
    I get 1700 daily from mfp but after exercise I am getting net 1200 so am I right in understanding that I can have 500 more calories? Or no?

    Yes, to be precise, 445 more calories.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    I just checked it's set to public
    But if my daily goal is 1700 and I've got over 400 via exercise? It's showing my daily goal as over 2100 now but I've already consumed 1700.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    I just started logging and I'm confused for today
    Net calories are 1200ish
    Fit bit is showing I burned 2500 calories
    I get 1700 daily from mfp but after exercise I am getting net 1200 so am I right in understanding that I can have 500 more calories? Or no?

    Yes, to be precise, 445 more calories.

    those calories fit bit is telling you include calories for EXISTING. do not eat them back

    enable negative adjustments
  • CafeRacer808
    CafeRacer808 Posts: 2,396 Member
    edited January 2017
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    I just checked it's set to public
    But if my daily goal is 1700 and I've got over 400 via exercise? It's showing my daily goal as over 2100 now but I've already consumed 1700.

    Right, which means you've eaten at MFP's daily calorie goal and you now have 400 more calories you're able to eat for the day, should you choose to do so.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    Still confused. And yes I do weigh my food and measure as I own a scale
    Yes I've enabled negative calorie adjustments
  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    I just started logging and I'm confused for today
    Net calories are 1200ish
    Fit bit is showing I burned 2500 calories
    I get 1700 daily from mfp but after exercise I am getting net 1200 so am I right in understanding that I can have 500 more calories? Or no?

    Yes, to be precise, 445 more calories.

    those calories fit bit is telling you include calories for EXISTING. do not eat them back

    enable negative adjustments
    ?
  • serindipte
    serindipte Posts: 1,557 Member
    MFP sets your daily goal to include a deficit based on your activity level without exercise. when you do additional exercise, that raises the number of calories you can eat for the day.
  • CafeRacer808
    CafeRacer808 Posts: 2,396 Member
    edited January 2017
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    Still confused. And yes I do weigh my food and measure as I own a scale
    Yes I've enabled negative calorie adjustments

    Your daily goal is 1700. You burned 400 calories from exercise. MFP is designed to have you eat back your exercise calories, so it added your 400 burned calories from exercise to your daily calorie goal. 1700+400=2100.

    Does that clear things up?
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    Yes that's much better thanks !
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