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Exercise Calories
dee3mom30
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Are exercise calories workouts or walks etc or daily steps through fitbit or a tracker ? Also should you eat any or all of those calories back ?
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I find when I exercise I no longer accumulate calories for steps
I get one or the other
Eat at least 50% back
Some people can eat them all back and still lose1 -
I don't eat them ALL back because most of these calorie calculators are over estimating , especially MFP...that being said, it's trial and error. Eat back all your calories and see if you still meet your weekly weight loss goals in a few weeks. Adjust as needed.1
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@nighthawk584 Ok thank you. Do you track your total calories burned for the day or just your activities ?0
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@nighthawk584 Ok thank you. Do you track your total calories burned for the day or just your activities ?
just my exercise calories burned.0 -
to start with eat around half back and monitor weekly rate loss for about a month. then look at the data and see if you need to adjust up or down1
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I've always eaten all my exercise calories and I lost 70+ pounds as expected and have kept it off for 12 years. You'll have to do a bit of experimenting with it to see if that's true for you. With accurate food logging, it will help. There's a learning curve:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
If you are wearing a fitbit it will sync with Myfitnesspal and the adjustments will be automatic.
I'm not sure you're explaining your issue nor getting the full story from posts in this thread, so here is the Fitbit Group for you to join/look at, https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
and here is the FAQ post about synching and exercise calories: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-amp-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy#latest
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Thank you for your help0
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