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  • yup, that's what i'd do. take however many calories your polar says you've burned at the end of the day, subtract MFP's estimate, and add that number as a calorie adjustment. that's basically what they'll do anyway once they get the automatic calorie adjustment sorted out...
    in Adding exercise calories from a calorietracker. Comment by crackers8199 July 2015
  • you should add the difference between your tracker's calculated TDEE and MFP's calculated TDEE to your goal calorie intake. this is what i love about my fitbit, it does it for me. fitbit figures out how many calories i've actually burned based on my movement (and HR since i have the charge HR), and then adjusts MFP…
    in Adding exercise calories from a calorietracker. Comment by crackers8199 July 2015
  • as someone who sees MFP as something that has seriously changed my life (380+ day streak and 42 lbs down), one other thing i'd recommend that i haven't seen anyone here mention is a fitbit. it helps you get a better idea of how many calories you're actually burning in a day and will send the adjustment right into MFP.
    in Any successful weight loss just following fitness pal's recommend calories Comment by crackers8199 July 2015
  • what fitbit do you have? if you have one with HR, it's taking that into account as well when calculating your calories burned...
    in Anyone use a FitBit? Comment by crackers8199 May 2015
  • just wanted to update this post with some good news...surprised even myself this morning - 28:10! almost a full two minutes faster than my goal! :)
    in running my first 5k this weekend! Comment by crackers8199 April 2015
  • the way i've found to fight this myself (mentally) is that even though i'm in maintenance mode right now, i still have MFP set to lose 0.5 lbs per week...that way if i go over occasionally (which happens), i'm still right around maintenance. on days where i run, i'm usually under by 500-1000 calories...so it all usually…
    in Went over calories Comment by crackers8199 April 2015
  • thanks everyone for the input! when i started this journey back in june of last year, i was 221 lbs and my first timed 5k (according to endomondo) was around 39 minutes in late-august...now i'm down to just under 180 lbs and i've been slowly but surely shaving time off, so if i could finish in under 30 minutes i'd be…
    in running my first 5k this weekend! Comment by crackers8199 April 2015
  • i had the flex, and got the charge HR when it came out (more so when i could find it, it took a few weeks and a ton of stalking a bunch of different stores to finally find one in stock)...love both of them. gave the flex to my wife when i upgraded to the charge HR...the heart rate monitor is surprisingly accurate, i…
    in Fitbit ? Yes/no which one !! Comment by crackers8199 February 2015
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