Anybody choose to NOT log any exercise?

Yea, you can change your goal calories on the website, not sure about the app. I changed mine because I dont eat my excercise calories so I calculated how many calories I need to sustain my current weight and used that as my goal calories, now when I excercise, whatever calories I burn is my deficit.

When I was losing I wouldn't log. Now that I'm maintaining, I'll log at the end of the day so I'm not tempted to go overboard.

I log my exercise and eat the calories because it's more motivation for me to exercise. I have my activity level at lightly active, but if I didn't log exercise, I'd have to bump it way up to the highest possible to get enough calories. If I had too few of calories, I'd burn through too much muscle. I've been skinny. I've been fat. I've been skinnyfat. I don't want any of those. I want to be fit and lean, and I won't be there if I don't eat enough.

(I'll also be cranky and miserable if I don't eat enough.)

I log mine just to keep track of how I'm doing. But currently I don't eat my excercise calories most of the time. Really I just try to eat healthier foods and if I'm hungry I will eat those calories but if not I don't worry about trying to eat them.

I set it to 1 lb a week because I'm happy with that much but have not been eating all my calories so I have been losing more.

I log it, but I don't eat it!

I have played around a lot with how to log and what settings to use in the three weeks since I've started. The way I'm doing it now seems to be the best for me personally. I set my activity level to lightly active so I don't log incidental exercise (cleaning, shopping, lugging my three small kids around day to day) and only log when I do a planned exercise. I also set my goal to a pound a week although I'd love to lose more that that. The combined calorie level it provides me is very workable on a normal day. Those days I don't eat the exercise calories back or if I do I only borrow a few of them. On days when I need more calories (lunch out with the family, a special treat, etc) I eat back some more of the exercise calories. And on the rare day when I can't get any exercise in at all I'm still ok on the calories alloted.
I wouldn't dream of not logging the planned exercise. I like the motivation of seeing it posted. But, I just look at those calories earned as "extra" and not something I should just eat to get rid of.

I don't like to log all my exercise bc I will never eat those calories back. Not just that, but a lot of the time I just forget to log my exercise. No biggie. I still lose.

On the flip side - I find it funny when people log every single thing... walked 12 steps to the bathroom... walked around Wal-mart looking for diapers... scratched butt for 10 minutes... Ugh.

i plan to log exercise at the end of the day after i have logged all my food so i only take in my 1500 calories. i should be taking in 1200but an a nursing mom so i have to add 300 for my baby. i try not to eat more than that and what ever exercise i do i add after im done loging the food for the day so i make sure im right around my calories for the day. and i will only log my real work outs. i wont log any of this 20 minutes of cleaning and stuff cause that isnt a major work out.

I don't use MFP as set up. I eat between my BMR and TDEE to lose weight, and I don't log exercise or "eat back" the calories from exercise.

If I did it MFP's way, then I guess I would log it...but I don't trust HRMs or other ways to calculate it anyway, and I lose body fat and weight doing it the other way...so why change it? It's how people have lost weight for years and years before MFP was ever invented.

Yep, that's the best way to do it if you exercise at a high intensity. Given how much slosh there is in calculating total calories burned, you're much better off just calculating your RDI based on your level of exercise and using that for your calorie goals.

If you do mostly very low intensity exercise, then you can log exercise and try to add that to your BMR.

I don't use MFP as set up. I eat between my BMR and TDEE to lose weight, and I don't log exercise or "eat back" the calories from exercise.

If I did it MFP's way, then I guess I would log it

^ This right here. While I'm currently in a surplus (bulking), I did the above and I think it's perfectly viable method, and also quite simple since you can just target the same intake daily. If I were using MFP's methods I'd log it and eat back most of the exercise cals..

^^And this here. I've been logging and eating my calories up to this point, with no problem, but in the new year I'm going to use Katch McArdle Method for calculating BMR (which uses body fat % and is more accurate ), multiplying it by my activity factor (which will include exercise 5-6 times per week), and reducing my intake by 20%. I will have a static intake of between 1750-1850 calories. The math is the same if I logged and ate my exercise calories.

It takes away the stress of logging every exercise calorie accurately.

I only log cardio/aerobic activity...so no. I dont log any activity!

no i dont , ,,,,one because i get frustrated when i icant log my strength training,,,will ican but it only shows the cardio,,,second im a FOOODIE ,,,i do one of two things over eat beacuse it is says i can or i think about food all day:sick: :embarassed: ...so im just on hear for the support part and i still excerise everyday and eat rt but i dont logg like i used too:frown:

If I don't log my exercises I feel worse. LOL I agree b/c you don't know how many calories you have burned from strength training can be so frustrating. However, I do know I have at least worked and burned calories. I try to just do some cardio 5 days a week to see some calories burned.

GOOD LUCK!

I usually log it AFTER I complete my day.

I only log my planned exercise...if I have to guess, I usually don't log it. I don't log any strength training...and I do that 3x per week for about an hour.

I also try to eat back most of my calories...I'm usually a couple hundred short when my burn is 600 or more...but the rest of the time, I'm pretty close. Trying to do better with eating all of them back....it's hard though!