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Weight: 245 lb's Height: 5'9 Age: 24 Male. Body fat %: 34% Starting weight was 286 lb's Also, why would I not consume less calories on days I do nothing but sit around?

Thank you all for the feedback!

So say I make one serving of 50 grams of dry rice which according to the box makes 2/3 cup cooked. But the serving size is 1/2, because the 2/3 is more than 1/2 after cooked is that more than one serving? Or still just one serving? And forgive me for my ignorance like I said I'm still new to this, but doing it the way I've…

I make 7 days worth of meals. So about 102 calories per container?

Okay, then my concern is, I would have to cook 1 serving 7 times to get an exact measurement for each of my tupperware containers, correct? Or how would I go about that?

Much less confusion now! Thank you! I didn't realize the activity level on the app was asking solely for my job activity, not my workout activity!

I chose Lightly Active because I go to the gym 3-4 days per week, should I not choose Lightly Active solely due to that? And choose instead my activity level based on my job? I work at a warehouse, but it's only 2 days per week due to college. But I see how this would make more sense, lol thanks for clearing that up for me!

Yes I did choose lightly active on MFP and on all other external calculators. I understand, I just said yours because I left that same comment on his video, and copied and pasted to this, forgot to change the "yours" XD

I just chose that as a number before I knew anything about all this and was trying to lose weight ASAP, I now see that 1500 was a dangerous number to go by because then I'd be losing much more than 2 lb / week. But here, I'll explain my confusion a bit better. Okay, so according to the default calories of MyFitnessPal, it…

Here's another thing I find interesting, yet confusing, according to MFP's default calories, I should be taking 1970 calories per day, and according to the video above, because I'm using the default calories, I should eat those extra calories, or at least 50% of them. Now, if I use this website,…

My other question is, he mentioned in the video that if you use MFP's default caloric intake/day, then yes, but I do not, nor do I use another calorie calculator, I set the 1500 calories a day goal myself, that wasn't MFP's recommendation. Will the answer still be the same?

This video was incredibly helpful!!! Thank you very much for that!

For instance, today MFP goals look like this, 1500 Goal (my goal calorie intake each day) - 1668 Food (how much I've eaten through out the day)+ 420 Exercise (extra calories MFP is saying I've got to eat from exercise) = 252 Remaining.

So eat roughly half of the extra calories MFP is telling me to eat if I'm understanding that correctly?

Also, I know the optical sensor isn't very great for weight lifting and calories burned/BPM, so I use a Bluetooth Polar H7 chest BPM strap that I use specifically for weight lifting, and I find that to be much much more accurate than the optical sensor on the Apple Watch

That makes complete sense then, thank you for the clarification!

I use Indoor Walk when I go on the treadmill, and Other when I'm lifting weights in the gym, for this test at the house sitting doing nothing, I chose other.

I do, but I like to use calculators like this instead. http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=standard&cage=24&csex=m&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=9&cpound=254&cheightmeter=180&ckg=60&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=9

What's a good way to track calories burned from weight lifting then?

An hour and a half. That makes sense!

The 391 calories were from weight lifting at the gym, with the Apple Watch on and paired with my chest strap Polar H7 BPM counter.

The Apple Watch is paired to MFP, but it's not adding the 391 calories to my diary, no, the only thing it's keeping track of from my Apple Watch are my steps, and I've checked the settings for the Health app on iPhone and made all the permissions set to allow, but still it's not adding the 391 calories, only the steps, not…

Well the reason I ask is because I have a Polar H7 chest strap Bluetooth Heart Rate monitor that I pair with my Apple Watch to get a more accurate reading of my BPM for the gym, and when I was lifting weights, it was counting calories burned from that as well, something MyFitnessPal doesn't do, which is where my 391…