thekcpiper

1.7 MET/day seems reasonable. 1 MET for an "average" person should be your BMR. If you were 2 METS, you'd need to eat 2xBMR to maintain your weight.

At a minimum, I eat back to my BMR and then 2/3 of the remaining exercse calories above that. I do this to account for food labeling inaccuracies (which tend to slightly underreport) and/or overreporting of calories burned by HR monitors, GPS watches, etc.

It should be close. Do you know your average HR for that exercise session? More info than you probably needed, but I always like to show my work LOL. Also, to account for food labeling inaccuracies and/or possible over-reporting of calories burned, I typically eat back only 2/3 of my exercise calories.

This translates to 10.34 kcal/min or roughly 2L/min of O2 (for the average person). Based on your age, weight and gender your BMR is about 1350 per day. The average person consumes 3.5 mL/min/kg of O2, which makes your resting consumption 0.233 L/min (roughly 1.17 kcal/min rest * 1440 min/day = 1680 BMR, so your resting O2…

Check this out: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/713460--eating-back-exercise-calories-simple-breakdown

I found a good explanation here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/713460--eating-back-exercise-calories-simple-breakdown Short version: Eat the calories back. MFP builds the calorie deficit per week into the plan and assumes you eat it all back. I'm thinking of eating about 2/3 of it back to account for any…

The mistake I made was this: I work an office job (sedentary) but exercise like crazy (2500 cal/week). So I set it to sedentary and got a really low number, but I went with it, thinking MFP would take into account my exercise. I found out it doesn't. It always assumes you eat ALL those calories back (no setting for this,…

To make sure I understand NET BMR: If I'm supposed to eat 1900 cal per day according to MFP, I exercise 500 cal per day, and eat 2000 calories per day. Then my NET BMR for that day is 1500, which means I need to eat another 400 calories, for a total of 2400 eaten that day. Is that correct?

Weight loss. My fat percetage is slowly going down, but it's my understanding that with a calorie deficit, it's very difficult to put on muscle. That's the only explanation I can think of though. I'm putting on enough muscle to replace, weight wise, what I'm losing in body fat. But at a calorie deficit, I've been told this…

I scan the food, and do measure most of the time, so it's accurate as far as I'm aware. As for the exercise, I use the numbers my Nike+ watch provides. I also track it all on a spreadsheet and average about 15 kcal/min of running (pace between 8:00 - 11:00 mile). Should I at least eat back to my BMR if I go under? For…