Counting calories
xNausicaa
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When counting the calories you burn do you just consider how many calories you burned from activities you've done throughout the day and exercise? Or do you do that and include the amount of calories you burn from just existing ?
Ex you burn 500 calories from exercise and work related activites and 1000 from existing. Would you say you burned 500 or 1500?
Ex you burn 500 calories from exercise and work related activites and 1000 from existing. Would you say you burned 500 or 1500?
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Exercise from work etc through the day is part of your activity setting.1
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I’ve been told that I need to consume 1450 calories to exist. If I exercise, I need more. I eat 1800 calories per day on average regardless of how many calories I burn from intentional exercise.1
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I use my 2400 cals per day, and if I exercise and gain more I try and not use them, then it should result in a loss. A boxing trainer friend of mine recommended a sauna to help with my weight loss as it helps get rid of any excess water which has worked. Good luck with your journey and feel free to add me 👍🏻🏴13
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what you normally do in any given day is your activity level, and should be set accordingly.
intentional exercise is added back.4 -
I know some people add more calories if they workout that day, what works for me tho is to just have a static calorie goal, I never adjust it. I have 1900 calories a day and thats it, if I workout I wont add any more calories but perhaps i'll try and get more protein in those days. This is what works for me, not saying its the best method.3
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I log my activity during the day but do not use the calories myfitnesspal gives me for working out. I have had a loss of weight weekly all except one week by doing this.2
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I have my activity level set to sedentary. When I log my exercise, I eat 50% of those calories back. Down 108.6lbs as of today.8
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When counting the calories you burn do you just consider how many calories you burned from activities you've done throughout the day and exercise? Or do you do that and include the amount of calories you burn from just existing ?
Ex you burn 500 calories from exercise and work related activites and 1000 from existing. Would you say you burned 500 or 1500?
I collect them for stats but never consider them in the total cals I should consume.1 -
Just through exercise. Your general day-to-day activity is already taken into account by MFP when you set your activity level.2
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MFP's number includes your calories for existing (BMR) plus any from your daily activity based on what activity setting you chose. It also includes your deficit. It does not include intentional exercise as you are supposed to log that as you go. This will increase the amount of calories you're eating allowing your net calories to equal the number MFP gives you.
So, you only need to log intentional exercise as everything else should be accounted for in your activity setting.2 -
MFP uses NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenisis) - that means activity level is included, but deliberate exercise is not.
You should be able to lose weight (at the rate intended) while still eating back 100% of exercise calories. But EVERYTHING is an estimate. Some people aren't as active as they think they are. Some people think they are logging calorie intake correctly, others use a digital food scale. Some people assume exercise calories are correct (some estimates are better than others).
Many MFP users start by using the site as designed. Log food and deliberate exercise. Many will start by eating back 50% of exercise calories. If you are losing too fast over a period of time (yes, there are consequences) then eat more than 50%. If you are losing slower than expected, eat a smaller % and/or tighten up on your logging.7 -
When counting the calories you burn do you just consider how many calories you burned from activities you've done throughout the day and exercise? Or do you do that and include the amount of calories you burn from just existing ?
Ex you burn 500 calories from exercise and work related activites and 1000 from existing. Would you say you burned 500 or 1500?
Depends on what you mean by "count"...
My BMR is around 1800...that's just existing. In total I burn on average around 3,000 total calories per day...that includes my BMR, day to day stuff, and exercise. To lose weight, I just eat less than that.
If you're using MFP, it has done all of the calculations for you based on population statistics. You just eat to your calorie target plus calories added for deliberate exercise not included in your activity level. Just keep it simple and use the tool as it is designed to be used...no need to complicate things.3 -
I use my 2400 cals per day, and if I exercise and gain more I try and not use them, then it should result in a loss. A boxing trainer friend of mine recommended a sauna to help with my weight loss as it helps get rid of any excess water which has worked. Good luck with your journey and feel free to add me 👍🏻🏴
Sweating it out in a sauna has absolutely nothing to do with true weight loss. You're merely dehydrating yourself out of a bit of water weight. Unless you're doing this the night before a competition to make a weight requirement, it's a really futile (and sometimes dangerous) thing to do. Water weight has nothing to do with fat weight.
Also, you should be eating at least 50% of your exercise calories back in order to fuel your workouts.6 -
Sorry if it wasn't clear. I don't mean to eat them back, I'm just curious of what you would consider "calories burned"
Thanks for the responses so far though!0 -
Sorry if it wasn't clear. I don't mean to eat them back, I'm just curious of what you would consider "calories burned"
Thanks for the responses so far though!
That would be my TDEE (BMR x activity multiplier plus my exercise).
For me that's highly variable as my exercise duration and intensity has enormous variations.
All your bodily functions need to be fuelled and if you are calorie counting they should all be taken into account.0
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