fairy_daisy wrote: »

Three yesses for me - I had a really nice (but wet) walk with a friend (and cycled there/back). We'd both thought about cancelling when we saw the weather, but were glad we did it anyway. I still haven't quite worked out my right activity level for MFP/whether to eat exercise calories, so I'm now a bit hungry but not going to eat more right away in case it goes away...

katiecan2019 wrote: »

Three yeses for me today, nearly an hour of yoga this morning and then a beautiful (hilly) walk for an hour and a half with my family this afternoon.
@fairy_daisy i don’t t know if it’s recommended but I always eat my exercise calories. I don’t think I’d be a very nice person otherwise, I get so hungry!

There is plenty of Message board pinned threads and Responses to Questions on refining this. MFP presumes that you will eat back your exercise calories, as (based on what you chose as general lifestyle and target rate-of-loss per week) it builds in a degree of deficit when picking a daily intake target for you. Some people aren't so sure about the accuracy of the MFP exercise calorie-burn estimates and may only eat back a portion, or else only enter what they consider more accurate burn-readings from other apps or cardio machines or whatever.

The general "rule of thumb strategy" (how ever you arrive at the determination / play with the numbers) can be summed up as "if your weight-trend average is changing at your chosen rate, you have it about right"

If you would be hungry if you didn't regularly eat them, Eat them! If your fitbit (or whatever-source) shows that you very rarely go under a certain level even when you don't get much of an exercise session in - set your MFP "daily activty lifestyle" setting accordingly and don't worry about adding in the exercise logging. I only log my exercise bike if I happen to use it because my (very basic) fitbit doesn't register it as "steps therefore calories burns"

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, an hour of cycling.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, under budget.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes.

Have used up all 3 Pass Days now, so hoping to stay on the straight and narrow the rest of the month!

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, a 20 minute walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No, Chinese food for dinner and then what do you know, I felt hungry an hour after eating Chinese food just like they say! (probably actually more appetite than hunger... )
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Nope

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes - even earned over 50 fitbit exercise calories
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? not quite (due to PLANNED Father's Day Treat menu)
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

We had a "not our usual style" assembled-at-home Chinese-style Father's Day dinner plus a later dessert-snack (all pre-planned)

So I too have no "spares" remaining until the end of the month ... but every intention of giving it my best shot at still making the Winner's Circle, as there are are only 9 remaining days to get right ...

Days goals met: 18
Pass days used: 3 (2 unintentional; 1 pre-planned)

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, cleaned for almond 2 hour’s in a mask (fitness studio), biked to/from fitness studio.

Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes

Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

Yes x 3
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