MyFitnessPal friends wanted

Open up your Food Diaries people so we can criticise each other :p

Also, remember MFP is only as good as the data being put into it, I see it all the time with people entering clearly wrong stuff or eating back calories "gained" from exercising.
 
I was always of the understanding you ate your exercise calories.

My calorie goal is 1500 a day but add exercise can go up to 2000 or more. I couldn't last the day if I still stuck to 1500 on an exercise day. Specially football that can burn 1000 cals up easily.
 
The calories MFP set is not a great figure to go by.

I always recommend working out your TDEE and eating in a sensible deficit and setting your own custom calories and macros through MFP.

Here's a good starting point:

http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/

The calories burned that MFP also generates is like plucking a number out the air, eat your required calories (using the website above as a guide) and any exercise is a bonus.
 
I'll open up the can of worms :p

If a donut fits within your daily calories and you've fulfilled your other macro and micro nutrient needs with whole foods, is it bad for you?
 
Liquid_Entity said:
Of course not however it's not going to help you if losing weight.
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But what if you are in a caloric deficit and fitting this donut in aids with long term dietary adherence and prevents the often inevitable binge of donuts a few weeks later.

Not trying to start an argument :p
 
I always eat back a huge chunk of earned calories and I don't care what I eat (as can be seen from my diary).

It hasn't stopped me losing just under 7.5 stones.

/edit - I think I've added everyone now.
 
Feek said:
I always eat back a huge chunk of earned calories and I don't care what I eat (as can be seen from my diary).

It hasn't stopped me losing just under 7.5 stones.

/edit - I think I've added everyone now.
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Personally I always eat back all my kcal also - however, MFP does massively overestimate the kcal you'll burn doing things like cycling/etc.

I try to balance my diet better than not paying attention at all but I think anyone serious about hitting the right macros would be horrified if they looked at my diary :p
 
Guys, if you're not sharing your diary, please go into your settings and ensure it's visible to friends. It takes a lot of the interest away of your diary isn't visible.
 
I hardly use it these days. I was using it when I was trying to keep up my 4-4.5k calories a day. It's not that accurate with all the breakdown of all the macronutrients, but it's a good "gauge".

It's just like scales, as long as you use the same ones, you can gauge whether or not you're changing irrespective of it's accuracy it'll give you your rate of change/and how much you've changed. :)

wmr1980 if anyone is interested, but be warned I hardly log on it, but there should be some historic stuff on there if people are interested.
 
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