Excerise calories

karen2512 wrote: »

Thank you. To be honest I am not needing to use them but just wondered just in case I fancied a glass ( bottle) of wine!! 🤣

If you're set up for slow weight loss for your current size, and don't do very much or very intense exercise, then not eating them back (letting them increase your calorie deficit) is probably OK. If you're already trying to lose fast (like 2 pounds a week or something), and you're getting hundreds of calories of adjustment most days but not eating them back, you're on a path toward increased health risk, and increased risk of compensatory over-eating later. Fuel is important; sooner or later, bodies tend to go after some.

There's nothing wrong with fitting wine into your calorie goal (and it's OK to bank calories within reason to do it). I can't speak for you, but if I try to sustain a really big calorie deficit for days, then drink the wine, I'll eat All. The. Foods. after the wine. That would not be helpful.

The process of losing a meaningful amount of weight is inherently a long-ish term proposition (months to years, depending on amount). Doing it in a sustainable way makes it more likely we can keep doing it long-ish term, and actually reach goal weight.

Best wishes!

karen2512 wrote: »

It's not distrust, I just wasn't aware that is what happened. And my fitbit counts steps when I'm in the car and drying my hair so no I won't be consuming those "excerise" calories

Have you even looked at those spikes of steps during non-walking times - looked at the distance of those "steps", and the calories that goes with it? Use your 24 hr daily graph. You'll likely find like most people that is minor, much less than the 20% off nutrition labels are allowed to be.

Did you know the Fitbit doesn't even try to account for the calorie burn associated with Thermic effect of Food (TEF), but that's a real about 10% of the calories you eat.
Fitbit gives a sleeping rate of burn to all non-step time.
But when awake non-moving, you burn more.
When standing not moving you burn even more.

Are you equally concerned about making up that side of the missing calories?

Only bringing up that many make decisions on gut, not info and thinking it out.
But yes, there are inaccuracies on both sides in many places. Hence advice that was given about having a period of best accuracy to see how trustworthy it is first.

Hence trying to educate - which hopefully isn't viewed as unkind.

Your 24 hr graph is on Fitbit - perhaps you haven't explored it much to have found it.

You've seen steps gained from driving and hair drying - but you don't know what that means besides extra steps.
You appear to think it means lots of extra calories - trying to help you learn the facts.

And then trying to expand your knowledge on how the Fitbit works, and how the body burns calories - double learning there if you didn't know.
I'd suggest reread it - this world we are in teaches us to scan and move on quickly - not really useful for many important things in life.