ConicalFern Member

Do you have a source for this? I can imagine running might burn twice as many calories per minute, but per mile I'm not so sure.

Thanks, but I'm aware of the basic logic, but what I'm wondering is:

I always eat back my exercise calories. I don't really see why they should be treated as any other type of calories, provided you're happy with the calorie estimate given for the exercise.

Sugar free jelly (32 calories a pint!) and melon.

Start from 0, each time you take a step add 1 to that number. At the end of the day that number equals the number of steps you took.

I don't really see a distinction between exercise calories and other calories. All are a measure of how much energy I've used. I just eat to whatever my goal is, exercise or no exercise.

For me it's how calories are actually in cake. I'm in maintenance now and I still rarely have calories spare for it. When I have some after lunch I often find my lunch and the cake are similar in calorific content! I also never realised how great cake was until now...

How long have you being doing this?

Feel free to look at mine. I don't really cook properly (I'm a student) though.

I always weigh myself just before going to bed so I can have an idea of whether I've put on weight for tomorrow's weigh in...

This is spot on in my opinion. That said, I'm sticking with my Garmin calorie estimates as they are. I tend to eat back most of my exercise calories back, and I would rather under eat than over eat!

I think we will have to agree to disagree. Calories are measure of energy used, not effort. Going back to my cycle example, let's say you need to cycle on a bike at a given energy level to produce enough energy to power a light bulb for 30 mins. Two people could do this test, one fit, one couch potato. Both would need to…

Is this true? I'm a cyclist (sort of anyway), so it's easiest to use that as an example. If you cycle at 100 watts for an hour, your total energy output is 360kJ. Doesn't matter if you're Chris Froome, that's the energy required to turn the pedals for that long. The specific conversion between kj to calories does depend on…

I use my Garmin heart rate monitor that came with my cycle computer, but I also use it with my basic running GPS watch, sometimes running, but more often in the gym - I then use this to estimate my calories for the session. How accurate using HR monitor for a gym session (say on the bike) is I'm not sure yet. Since I have…

Posting because I seem to be in the minority - I pretty much always eat back my exercise calories and I find it very difficult on non exercise days to not go over my allowance. I get very similar calorie estimates from Trendweight and MFP, with the former only having my weight go on, so I don't think I'm under/over eating.…

Click the plus button in bottom right and select Weight.

Another +1 for trend weight, very impressed by its accuracy. It estimated, from my weight loss alone, that I was at an average 917 calorie deficit each day, whilst my MFP nutrition puts me at 857 calories under each day, which is impressively accurate to me, given that we know it's always going to be difficult to…

That's certainly speedy, especially on mountain bike. I don't know many people that could do that on a road bike.

At my weight that's 2486 according to Runner's world :) . I guess on the upside, it's rare that you can eat that many calories and and not actually go over your allowance by too much - imagine eating that much of a non-exercise day!

How many was that?

I can eat a lot I guess... I ate 410 calories on the ride, plus a breakfast that was probably 300 calories bigger than I would normally have, plus 270 when I came in for recovery, which totals to 980 extra calories consumed already. If we're going with the lower estimate that 'only' gives me 698 calories for the ride,…

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Cycling is my main sport that I've done for most of my adult life, so.. yes :). Plus the Garmin has GPS for distance etc. Average speed for the ride was 17.6.

Thanks, but no visible dropouts - plus on the ride itself I did notice that my HR was a bit lower than it normally is.

You're aware the whole idea of this site is to ensure that, assuming you want to lose weight, calories in must be < calories out? Given that, it's important to know the calories out. I don't really want to have a huge deficit for any given day, so I would rather have some idea of how many calories I've burnt. I'm always…

Using old data, I was conservatively estimating that I would burn 2000 calories, I was just a bit put out when the value so much lower than I was expecting!

That's very interesting; I hadn't considered that the relationship between watts and calories might change with temperature as well. I guess there are two important questions that it raises: - Is the difference between 0 and 20 degrees the same as the difference 20 and 40? As Ninerbuff points out, just as the body has to…

What were the Strava estimates like? I use a HR monitor on my rides, but I tend to use whichever is lower between Strava and Garmin connect and eat back those calories (I'm too hungry after a ride not to!). Presumably the Powertap data is most accurate? Can the Powertap not talk to the Garmin? Sorry for hijacking thread.

Peanut butter on toast.

I injured my ankle running but could cycle on it no problem.