Exercise points

beccadawn50
beccadawn50 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
My exercise points are way too high and is incorrect. Is there a way to fix this?

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  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    edited July 2017
    Do you mean the extra calories? You can manually edit them to any number besides 0.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Just eat back 50% of what they gave you
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Just out in your own numbers. I always choose random ones for fun
  • mcafton
    mcafton Posts: 190 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Just out in your own numbers. I always choose random ones for fun

    watching TV 20,000 calories burned. I've got some eating to do!
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Just eat back 50% of what they gave you

    To elaborate,
    Eat back the 50% and observe your weight loss over 4-6 weeks. If you are losing faster than your goal up your exercise cals 10%. If you are losing slower decrease them 10%. Observe again. Wash and repeat.

    Cheers, h.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    mcafton wrote: »
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Just out in your own numbers. I always choose random ones for fun

    watching TV 20,000 calories burned. I've got some eating to do!

    Good man.
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  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    JerSchmare wrote: »
    middlehaitch wrote: »
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Just eat back 50% of what they gave you

    To elaborate,
    Eat back the 50% and observe your weight loss over 4-6 weeks. If you are losing faster than your goal up your exercise cals 10%. If you are losing slower decrease them 10%. Observe again. Wash and repeat.

    Cheers, h.

    I just don't understand this. But, whatever.

    The approach I've always taken is eat 100% and monitor the results. If you gain or maintain, knock them down a little.

    Everything should be a 'watch and see' situation. Use the scientific method because it really works. Change one variable, keep it up for 4 to 6 weeks. If you don't get the results you want, change another variable. It's never ending though because you might change your exercise routine, or your eating patterns, or play with TDEE vs NEAT. Or you might try intermittent fasting. It's fun to evaluate how different things affect weight loss and energy throughout the day.

    The most important things are lots of water, sleep, manage stress, and eat fewer calories than you burn. Everything else is circumstantial.

    I always ate back 100% too. But that was when there was just the MFP or on line calculators. MFP's numbers worked well for me and my activities.

    I used to also just say eat back your exercise calories and adjust.
    However, after years of posting on here, and the ploriferation of personal tracking devices, I have found there is a much wider discrepancy in results, and people just starting out are more likely to quit if they are struggling to get results.

    Saying eat back 50 or 75% (which is what I usually say) gives them the same 'adjust to suit' option, but with a different starting point.

    Cheers, h.
  • WendyLeigh1119
    WendyLeigh1119 Posts: 495 Member
    I have been paying more attention to my exercise calories awarded vs how much I eat back and I find that if MFP award me *say* 500 calories for 60 minutes of Body Combat, I may reduce it to 450. Then reduce my next 60 minute workout by 50, too. Strength Training I usually have to reduce to 275 calories or less per 60 minutes unless it's a faster class like Body pump.

    Basically, adjusting down each hour of exercise by 50 or so calories (depending on how many were awarded, of course) typically means I can eat back 75% to 100% of calories and still lose 1lb to about 1.8lbs per week. I think I had maybe 2 weeks where I stalled a bit at .75lbs... but I just adjusted what I ate back by a small percentage.
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    mcafton wrote: »
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Just out in your own numbers. I always choose random ones for fun

    watching TV 20,000 calories burned. I've got some eating to do!

    Man I gotta start watching tv More
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