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  • Be very careful when you "eat back your exercise calories". Keep in mind, when you burn 500 calories in an hour-long workout, that's not really 500 MORE calories. Depending on your BMR, you would have burned 50+ calories just sitting on the couch, so you've really only burned an extra 450. If you're eating back the 500,…
    in Discouraged! 1 month of counting cals/working out w/ no resu Comment by Jrabes January 2012
  • I've read a few places that it really doesn't matter that much what the activity is, it's mostly your heart-rate that determines how many calories you burn. Did the machine tell you what your average heart-rate was at the end of your workout? If so, try inputting your numbers into this calculator…
    in Wildly inaccurate calorie counts? Comment by Jrabes January 2012
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