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That's the idea, but keep in mind that the calorie burned estimates from MFP are estimates and aren't 100% accurate. The general suggestion from people is that you should 'eat back' half of the calories it says you've burned. Personally, I just don't bother entering steps or workouts into MFP at all. Instead, I'd used a…
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Personally, I don't sync or enter exercise calories into MyFitnessPal at all. I think the better solution is to use a TDEE calculator and just make that your calorie goal.
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That's true, they are getting the number from somewhere. There's just not much of a reason for that number to be applied to everyone. If you weigh yourself every day then you might worry about water retention affecting the readings, but that's not really a health issue.
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The 2300mg default MFP uses is needlessly low for the vast majority of people. Going over it isn't going to cause any problems.
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Being under your calorie goal is what matters when it comes to losing weight. MFP's default sugar goal is set to 15% of your total calories, you can change it if you feel it's too low or too high. MFP doesn't distinguish between 'natural' or 'added' sugar because your body doesn't either.
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Sugar is sugar, there's no reason MFP should distinguish between 'natural', 'added', etc, they're all the same to your body. As someone else said, MFP gets its default recommendation by limiting sugar to 15% of whatever calorie goal you selected. You can go to your 'goals' and edit that to a higher or lower number…
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Sugar is sugar is sugar. Doesn't matter if its natural or added or which food it comes from. If you think you're consuming too much, the solution is to eat less, not exclude things you eat from your logs.
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Carbs make up 50-60% of my calories (>340g+) most days. I run most days, so they're pretty useful.
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It's just trying to fit the numbers to the goals you've set. If you told it you want to eat 1800 calories and want 30% of that to be protein, it's going to say you should eat 135g of protein (540 calories).
