Net versus Gross calorie burn...

Does anyone subtract the calories that you would normally burn just to support your RMR??

So far I haven't but this article made me think??

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A Common Mistake Related to Net and Gross Calorie Burn
Now that you understand the meaning of net and gross calorie burn, you should be able to avoid one of the most common mistakes that people make when tracking their calorie burn, illustrated by the following scenario:

Let's suppose that you have decided to start a weight loss program to lose 10 pounds over 20 weeks (this is a weight loss rate of 1 pound every 2 weeks). Before starting this weight loss program you performed no regular exercise and you were neither gaining nor losing weight, so you must have been burning exactly the same number of calories that you were consuming. Rather than modify your diet to lose weight, you decide to continue to consume the same amount of calories while increasing your calorie burn through daily exercise. Since there are roughly 3,500 calories in one pound of fat, you decide to run on a treadmill every day until you've burned 250 calories according to the treadmill's calorie burn calculator. 250 calories per day will add up to 3,500 calories, or about 1 pound of fat, every 2 weeks, because 250 x 14 = 3,500. So, according to this strategy you should expect to lose about 1 pound of fat every 2 weeks, right? Wrong.

The mistake here, which is extremely common, is that a typical calorie burn calculator on a treadmill provides gross calorie burn estimates. If you run on a treadmill (one that provides gross calorie burn estimates) until it says that you have burned 250 calories, it is not lying, you have in fact burned 250 calories, but a substantial portion of those calories were burned to support your RMR and so they would have been burned anyway, even if you were at home sitting on the couch. They are not calories that can be counted toward weight loss in your overall caloric balance, because they were already being burned before you started your weight loss program (remember, calories are always being burned to support your RMR, no matter what you are doing) and were and are balanced out by your unmodified calorie consumption. You need to figure out what your net calorie burn was on the treadmill and count only this number toward your weight loss goal.

For example, to use some actual numbers, let's suppose that you are a 30 year old, 125 lb, 5'5" tall woman. With these measurements you would have a RMR of approximately 1500 calories per day. After 30 minutes of running, at about 5.2 miles per hour, a treadmill calorie burn calculator (one that provides gross calorie burn estimates) will show that you have burned about 250 calories. However, since your RMR is 1500 calories per day, while running for 30 minutes you burned roughly 30 calories to support your RMR. Therefore, your net calorie burn while running on the treadmill is about 250 - 30 = 220 calories. As a result, you have a caloric balance deficit of 220 calories per day, instead of your originally anticipated 250 calories per day, and you should expect to lose roughly 8.8 pounds over the course of 20 weeks, instead of the 10 pounds that you were hoping for.

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Anyone?

Are the scores on the database net or gross?