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Calories

Yakker04
Yakker04 Posts: 75 Member
edited December 2024 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Hi I need help please I've been told by 2 nutritionist not to count the calories the app gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate is this correct

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,476 Member
    I always logged my exercise and ate the calories given.

    The only way you will know is by doing it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67USKg3w_E4
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    No, that is incorrect.

    If you're unsure about a value of something, it is also not accurate to assume that the value is 0.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    What is your goal? You posted in the maintaining weight forum, so are you trying to maintain your current weight? Are you using the MFP determined calorie goal? Or did one of these nutritionists give you a different calorie goal? If they gave you a calorie goal, did it include additional calories for activity?
  • rsj7799
    rsj7799 Posts: 74 Member
    If you are walking, running, or cycling you can use a phone app to track your calorie burn for exercise. These are pretty accurate in my experience. I find that if I enter the same data into MFP, MFP will give me about a 5% higher burn than apps will.
    At some point you will be at goal and you will need to have a handle on how much you are burning in order to maintain your weight. I think its best to get that sorted out when you are still losing. The added benefit is you will be able to control your weight loss by maintaining a safe and sustainable rate.
    I think the secret to long term success with MFP is through consistent and accurate logging of both calorie intake and calorie burn. As other posters have mentioned this will give you a solid baseline to adjust your calorie and weight loss goals from.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    edited March 2019
    Ask the nutritionists (a title which can mean something or nothing!) if they think I shouldn't eat back the approximately 2,229 cals I burned today.

    Personally I would take some inaccuracy over ignoring my exercise calories and not being able to cycle and/or being horrendously under fuelled if I did.
    It's a fallacy that people even need to be accurate in their estimates, reasonable is perfectly good enough for the purpose of controlling your weight.

    Remember the one number guaranteed to be wrong for everyone's exercise is zero.

    The other point is if you are seeking to maintain weight not only should you account for your exercise you MUST eat those calories back - whether labelled as such or just rolled up into one TDEE estimate.
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