Does MFP automatically build in a calorie deficit when it gives you your goal calories for the day? If it suggests you eat 2,000 calories, does that mean it calculates your daily caloric needs at 2,500 or so?
When I go to the gym, I wear a chest strap heart rate monitor and enter my age and weight into the machine before working out. The machine says I burn around 950 calories per hour. When I enter this into MFP, it tells me that 60 minutes on the elliptical should burn 1,061 calories. Which is the more accurate number?
