The Limitations of Myfitnesspal

jamrodriguez
on 8/22/15 10:17 pm

I'm glad im not the only one who thought this reasoning on MFP was backwards. You should never earn your food in the gym.

CerealKiller Kat71
on 8/23/15 8:23 am

RNY on 12/31/13

I hate this, too. That's why I no longer log my exercise on there at all. It's a psychological thing for me.

"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat

Grim_Traveller
on 8/23/15 9:21 am

RNY on 08/21/12

All I look at is how many calories I've eaten. At this point I know how many to eat to keep a steady weight, how many will make me gain, and how many if I want to lose a few. All the rest is unused data.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

Kathy S.
on 8/23/15 12:23 pm - InTheBurbs, XX

RNY on 08/29/04 with

I agree! I cracked up when at the end of Friday after I finished weight lifting and Zumba it said I had a negative 63 cals for the day. Sure, right. let me just go out and start eating.... NOT! Glad I am not the only one...

HW:330 - GW:150 - MW:118-125

RW:190 - CW:130

Felicity Q.
on 8/23/15 3:48 pm

DS on 09/28/15

I think the FitBit calories burned counts the calories you burn breathing and just being alive. Even with my FitBit sitting on my desk for a day (whoops) at the end it'll say I burned 2000 calories.

Looking at it right now, I walked 0.94 miles and it says I burned 1901 calories in the 2170 steps moved. However when that syncs with MyFitnessPal, it says I 'earned' 103 extra calories from exercise. Now, that doesn't affect how much i'll eat today, but I think it's probably about right that .94 miles = 103 calories or so?

Agreed about MFP not allowing us to set caloric weights below 1k for women and 1.2k for men. Maybe if we ALL complained, they'd consider adding it to their development. I tweeted them just now! 1 voice down, many more to go!