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Add percentage of exercise calories to daily calories

ronkahn19
ronkahn19 Posts: 2 Member
in Feature Suggestions and Ideas
The present version allows users to either add or not add calories burned during exercise to the daily allowance. It would be helpful to allow the option of adding just percentage of calories burned during exercise. So for example I could indicate I wanted 50% of calories I burned at the gym, added to my daily allowance not all of them.
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,311 Member
    I'm not disagreeing with your suggestion when I say this.

    As a temporary workaround, I hope you know you can edit the calories of an exercise before adding it to your diary. That would be a way to reduce the calories added, though it would lose the information about what the original calorie estimate was. You can also create custom exercises with whatever calorie allocation you might think is more accurate.
  • ronkahn19
    ronkahn19 Posts: 2 Member
    Granted, however, the calorie count is imported automatically from a different app.
  • patriciafoley1
    patriciafoley1 Posts: 212 Member
    I let it add the exercise calories but I only eat a fraction of them when I do eat them. I like seeing what I earned in exercise calories but it doesn't mean I have to eat them. I also regard them as a cushion for the inevitable miscounting of calories eaten, given our calculations can never be entirely exact.

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