might stop using burnt calories

Try only eating back half. The estimated burn may not be accurate

I prefer my calories lightly toasted and dipped in dijon.

And I eat them all because I am about being healthy and fueling my body after I make it work hard. I am more likely to not lose muscle mass that way.

That's the beauty of caring more about fitness than weight... you work hard and you get to EAT.

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your body is probably getting used to it, doing the same distance at the same intensity every day. you need to change it up, and put different stresses on your body.

Yeah if its something you do everyday you should include it in your profile settings- the "sedentary, lightly active, active" part and not include them as "exercise". I had the same problem when I walked to work everyday.

I agree with this comment ^

Keep in mind your body will adjust to your routine. You will need to change it up. Also like others have said, it might be over estimating for you.

My first thought was to add some ankle weights. If your doing the walk daily, may as well put more stress on your body Make your heart rate increase.

When you signed up for MFP what did you say your daily activity was like? If you said lightly active or active, MFP already compensates for the fact that you'r doing some amount of exercise during the day and you don't need to log your walking to and from schools because technically it would be calculated twice when you really only did it once.

If the above is not the case for you, maybe this will help...my rule of thumb is to consume at least 1200 calories per day and only compensate for what I burn if I'm just really hungry or going out to eat for a special occasion.

Additionally everyBODY is different, so just keep at it and the results will show :-)

Hope this helps...

I've just added this to my signature
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo

It's very important to eat them back. The thing is if this is your only form of exercise then maybe you ought to be changing from sedentary to lightly active, because it is your lifestyle rather than a specific exercise you do to lose weight. You need to challenge the muscles. I don't count my walk to work because it is just something I do every day. I exercise on top of this.

You also need to be chaining it up. Just like your brain your body gets bored.

I started gaining when I started eating back my exercise calories. After lots of reading and lots and lots of math, I found that with my current level of activity, my average BMR, my average daily energy expenditure and the amount that I am looking to lose that I should be eating about 1350 a day. That's what MFP days I should net. So eating back my exercise calories was putting me over that number. This has also been backed up by my BodyMedia Fit data that shows me averaging about a 750 calorie daily deficit when comparing overall daily calories burned vs. actual calories consumed.

As for your body getting used to the walk, it's a definite possibility. Your body naturally becomes more efficient when it does the same thing repeatedly. For example, I used to burn about 300-310 calories for a three mile run at a 5.7-5.8 mph pace (and that included occasional short walk breaks). Now that I've been following a training program and working specifically on making myself a better runner, I can do the same three miles at a sustained (no walking) pace of 6.2 mph with jumps up to 6.5 and 7.1 through the run. You'd think I'd be burning more calories due to the increased pace, but my run last night actually clocked in at 298 calories burned. Because I'm becoming a stronger runner my body is being more efficient during the run and my heart rate doesn't spike as high.

So making that same walk over and over, the same hills, the same stops, etc, your body probably burns less now than when you first started walking it simply because it knows what it's doing better.

The overlying curse of getting in better shape, you lose weight so you burn fewer calories and you create a more efficient exercise-abler body, so you burn less calories. lol

Yeah if its something you do everyday you should include it in your profile settings- the "sedentary, lightly active, active" part and not include them as "exercise". I had the same problem when I walked to work everyday.

did u findyou weren't losing too x

Exactly! When i started walking to work I was losing and then after awhile my body adjusted and it was easy, I didn't burn as many calories. So yeah, I'd suggest switching your activity level to "lightly active" and just not logging the walk to work. "lightly active" will give you about half as many calories more a day than logging the walking seperately. Its probably a better measure of what you're actually burning. Thats what I did and it worked well for me.