HOW DO YOU TURN OFF EXERCISE CALORIES BURNED?

Don't log your exercise.

But also, unless you're exercising very little, you should be eating some of your exercise calories back.

After I finish my workout I quick add calories to match the amount of calories I burned through workout. I like seeing my calories burned and I like keeping a track of how much I exercised per day, but I have zero interest in eating those calories back.

I don't work out tremendously hard and I exercise, in part, to create a larger deficit.

My situation is thus though: I have MFP set to lose a pound a week, but I would really like to lose 1.5 lbs a week and I am still obese at this point so it's not an unrealistic goal.

However, I feel that calorie goal is too low for me. I eat at the one pound a week loss calorie intake and the other half of a pound comes from my exercise that I don't eat back.

If I had MFP set to the 1.5 lbs a week loss setting and ate back my exercise calories I would eat about a hundred calories more than I do now on the days I work out.

BUT on the days I don't exercise I wouldn't have as many calories as I do now (250 less calories) which I would find annoying. Most likely, I would have calories left from previous days I could use, but I just don't want to have to be bothered with keeping track of that.

I also don't eat my exercise calories back because I know my logging isn't always accurate. I'll have take out meals that I don't know the nutritional value of (I rarely go to chains) or eat someone else's cooking and I'll know I'm only guesstimating. I leave those calories to make up for that.

AriahKitsune wrote: »

EttaMaeMartin wrote: »

I just want to focus on food intake. i don't want exercise calories figured in. i do not want to eat them back. help please?

Completely agree. Sadly, this feature is paywalled. Presumably because that helps MyFitnessPal advertise that you are x% more likely to lose weight using the premium version. Which I agree is true, if only because the app itself is no longer nudging your calorie allowance up/completely invalidating your exercise.

It doesn't invalidate your exercise. Or is your sole purpose for exercising to burn calories?
Also, I lost all of my weight (60lbs do far) eating back every delicious exercise calorie MFP/my fitness tracker gave me.

If eating back exercise calories is hindering your weight loss:
- the exercise burns might be inflated
- your overall calorie burn might not be as high as MFP thinks (for example a lower BMR than the statistical average for your gender and agree)
- your calories intake might be higher than you think (for example because your not weighing your food)
These are issues that require adaptation of your strategy, not blanket statements that exercise calories shouldn't be eaten back or that eating back exercise calories is 'invalidating' that exercise.
The above if you're using MFP as intended of course, it's a moot point when getting a calorie goal from a TDEE calculator, that that number already includes exercise.

PS: this is an old thread you resurrected.