Measuring Calories Burned

Flixie00
Flixie00 Posts: 1,195 Member
edited October 7 in Fitness and Exercise
I do a fair amount of cardio most days and I have found eating back my calories seems to work well for me, but I have a mental block eating back all my calories when it takes me over 2000 for the day. I would like to get a more acurate reading of what I am burning in the gym to ensure I am neither over or under eating. Ideally I would use a HRM but I have high blood pressure for which I take beta blockers, and HRM's are not recommended in such cases. Should I be using MFP's calculations of what I have burned, or the calculation from the gym equipment I have used? or is there another way that I am not aware of which would give me a more acurate reading? At the moment I take the lower reading and have been consistently losing weight.

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  • gregpack
    gregpack Posts: 426 Member
    I have used the bodymedia/bodybugg device to determine my caloric burn. I think it is fairly accurate. However, after about two weeks I gathered most of the data I needed. It would be cool to have a small group of people to split the cost and share the device.

    What this device did was confirm what the scale is revealing: You're in a caloric deficit. Just make sure you eat enough that your physical performance doesn't suffer. I went too low for too long (about 2000/day)and started having issues with my immunity system, metabolism, and libido. Eating more food helped.

    Congrats on being half way to your goal! I lost about 95 lbs last year. I need to lose another 20, but am currently in caloric maintenance and will likely take most of this year to get that off. Slow and steady wins the race.....
  • walkinmamma
    walkinmamma Posts: 12 Member
    Yes, same here. I wear a fitmedia device. I agree, once you get a baseline from it, it really just reconfirms what you already know. What I have found is that the numbers from it are closer to the numbers here on myfitnesspal then the numbers on the machines at the gym. I just don't think they take all the potential variables into account.
  • courtgosvener
    courtgosvener Posts: 66 Member
    I have been wearing mine for 2 weeks and half and got a baseline, however, I am not losing like I did eating 1450 calorie with MFP. It's only been a week technically but I essentially have been eating back "exercise" calories because my burn is about 2600-2900 when i exercise. So I eat about 1600-1900 a day. Granted I had a gain during the holidays. But I was able to pull the gain off faster doing 1450 as opposed to the 1600-1900 I am doing when I have a high burn day.
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