Rissole76
Full Member
Ok so if I go by MFP, and i put in my deets and say I want to lose 2lbs per week, it comes up with 1200 cals per day. If I do extra exercise, then I get to eat those too.
I bought a ki fit which tracks every calorie you burn it takes off 1000 cal to give you a 2lb loss per week. You then stick to that amount of calories to eat, and eat any extra if you go over. So it says on an average day without extra exercise I should burn 2600 cals, my monitor says this is what I have been burning. Therefore 2600-1000=1600. Then any extra exercise on top of this, my calories burnt figure went up, so I assume I eat these calories as I dont want a greater defecit than 1000cals. Why then does MFP only give me 1200? The little reader that takes my reading seems to be very acurate, and so if I did the school run twice a day, I burnt approx 400 extra cals, so therefore 2600+400=3000, then minus off the 1000cals to get the 2lb loss, that equals 2000cals,, seems alot? Any ideas?
I bought a ki fit which tracks every calorie you burn it takes off 1000 cal to give you a 2lb loss per week. You then stick to that amount of calories to eat, and eat any extra if you go over. So it says on an average day without extra exercise I should burn 2600 cals, my monitor says this is what I have been burning. Therefore 2600-1000=1600. Then any extra exercise on top of this, my calories burnt figure went up, so I assume I eat these calories as I dont want a greater defecit than 1000cals. Why then does MFP only give me 1200? The little reader that takes my reading seems to be very acurate, and so if I did the school run twice a day, I burnt approx 400 extra cals, so therefore 2600+400=3000, then minus off the 1000cals to get the 2lb loss, that equals 2000cals,, seems alot? Any ideas?