[AngelMae]

I just made an account with Fitday today, I know what took me so long??

Anyway I was wondering if in the activity category if you put everything that you do in a day or just exercise? Meaning do you put in if you do housework or I even saw a "Sexual Activity" category? Or do you just enter in your workouts?

TIA

[mandalinn82]

Honestly, I don't enter in any of it.

Calorie calculators online are notoriously inaccurate, especially for people who are or who have been obese. I had to figure out my own calorie level myself through trial and error, because the calculators just didn't do it for me. I have figured out that, to maintain, I can eat X calories if I exercise Y amount. That's MY body, and that's more accurate than a calculator will ever tell me.

I also think they can be sort of destructive. I've seen SO many people say "I ate 1500 calories and FitDay said I burned 2500 with my activity so I should have lost 2 lbs this week and I only lost 1.5! What's WRONG with me". In reality, 1.5 lbs is a huge, wonderful, to-be-celebrated loss. I feel like calculators of "what you burn" set people up for that sort of false sense of failure.

Just my 2 cents!

[PhotoChick]

I agree with Mandalinn (shocker, I know! ).

I use the Daily Plate, but the concept is the same. I think that giving a calorie value to every single thing you do (look, ma, I burned 250 calories typing on 3FC today! ) is counterproductive - at least for me.

I track what I eat and let the calories I burn in my workouts and my daily life fall where they will. I can get a decent idea of what I've burned at the gym using my Polar heart rate monitor, but really I don't use it as measurement that "counts" for anything ... just sort of as a point of reference as to how hard I've worked.

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[AngelMae]

Thanks ladies!

[chick_in_the_hat]

I enter my workouts as well, pretty much just to track what I did. I use the calories from my heart rate monitor and make the time match up. So - i might have actually ridden an hour, but I'll put 45 minutes because the calories come out right that way.