HRM vs MFP calories burned

natalieg0307
natalieg0307 Posts: 237 Member
edited November 8 in Fitness and Exercise
I don't have an HRM (yet). Those of you that use them, are MFP calories burned close to what what your HRM is showing?

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  • crewellademel
    crewellademel Posts: 168 Member
    It's been my experience that the MFP calorie burn is much higher than my HRM readouts. I started getting much better results with wt loss once I got my HRM FT7, it is very accurate I think. I think I was overeating because I was eating back "all" of my excercise calories. Interestingly, on my excercise bike it has calories burned and FAT calories burned. I used to go by calories burned when I was logging but when I got my HRM it was more accurate to the FAT calorie burned reading, so sometimes if I'm on a machine and I don't have my HRM on but it gives me Fat calorie burned I use that as my logged number of calories. :flowerforyou:
  • DenverKos
    DenverKos Posts: 182
    I experience the same thing - MFP gives a higher burn than my HRM, so I stick with what my HRM tells me. I'd hate to be eating back MFP calories thinking I'm doing a good job and no losing, or worse - gaining weight!
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