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Is The My Fitness Pal Calorie Count For Exercuse Too High ?!

Does anybody else think the calories burned is too high ?!? I said I did 2 hrs of moving furniture they said I burned 1600 calories ? WTF ? I love it if it's true but it seems a little off to me

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  • I have often wondered that too.. but regaurdless I still love the app lol

  • Pollyanna12
    Pollyanna12

    Funny, for the things I have used and then done on high quality equipment, it seems too low...Maybe you can check on some other website for their idea on calories burned to see ??

  • justathing2me
    justathing2me

    I thought the same thing! I started comparing what the machines tell me and what's on my fitness pal. For example, 30 minutes on the the bicycle (12-14 mph) says 399 calories burned on my fitness pal

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@bigenuff - 1600 cals for moving furniture... definitely off... I DO know that you do expend a lot of calories that way...

Yes I think I'll do what another poster said and add it at 75%

Sometimes I think my calories burned on MFP is to high and sometimes to low. For more accurate numbers, I do an online search of the specific exercise. I use the sites that ask for my weight, height, amount of intensity and the amount of time. Then, I use that number in MFP.

I've been wearing my heart rate monitor the last two times I did the elliptical. MFP calculates calories burned at almost double what my heart rate monitor said. I'm confused!

On another note, do you guys enter your full calories burned for the day on MFP? Things like work, shopping, household tasks, etc?

I need some friends for mfp

You are welcome to add me ajtexas0

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