Calorie Confusion
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If you have a very regular normal exercise routine and find that your weekly calorie burn is about the same, you can also just manually create an eating goal.
Keep a 3 week running avg for your normal weeks (not spring cleaning week, not sick with flu week) daily burn according to S3, if it includes everything.
Manually correct it for things that it doesn't do well - like lifting the trackers usually won't.
Get your avg daily TDEE, set your eating goal the reasonable deficit on Sun, and go for it.2 -
Your calories burned in your exercise diary seem way, way too high. You are probably not burning as much as you think you are. It looks to me like you are adding your total calorie burn for the day from your tracker as additional calories for "steps". Is that possible?3
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The last few reply's have been right on! Thanks for helping me understand.
I was including all calories burned for the day, from walking, sleeping eating, etc. I would add exercise separate, subtracting it from my overall total.
I didn't understand, hence the confusion, that the calorie intake is = to my TDEE, not including exercise.
So yes, it looks like I have been double counting my calorie burn which makes much more sense now.
THANK you all!
I'm still learning, do this is very helpful!5 -
It isn't the same as tdee as tdee includes exercise. I think it is based on neat but someone with more knowledge can correct if wrong. Your mfp numbers are based on your daily activity not including purposeful exercise. General steps from just just moving in daily life shouldn't be counted as that is build into activity level but if you take a walk as exercise beyond daily life you would count that.1
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