I weigh 175 now. Interesting. My goal for exersizes today is a at a least two mile walk.

I have two ways to calculate calories. Actually three. One way is to take the calories for maintaining ones weight, which is about 2090 for me, and add on calories burned through exersize. This is what MFP does. Another way is to take ones BMR, which is 1700 for me, and add on all the calories related to steps taken for the *entire* day. BMR is the calories needed to just sit there and breathe. This can work for me since I do little else. Still, my activity monitor app does something different. It adds in all the calories burned by walking for the entire day, including calories burned by walking for exersize, onto the calorie quota needed to maintain my weight. This yields an unrealistically high value. It appears to be confusing the maintenance level of calories with BMR. I do not think this applies to me. So my choice is between the former two methods.

I think I will go back with the MFP method until the calories burned from walking through the day, apart from exersize, becomes much more significant than it is. Then I will reevaluate. Right now the calories burned walking apart from exersizing only comes to about 100 to 150 a day, which is probably already factored into the calculation for the calories needed to maintain weight. If this part were to go up significantly, then I will need to adjust for this, perhaps by choosing a different activity level for the calculation of a new maintanence level of calories. What is inreeesting to me is that it still comes down to the weight scale determining whether I am eating properly. My watch only will at best provide me a ballpark figure.

PS I just realized that I have been making my efforts into an entertaining game for myself with, for instance, finding more accurate ways in determining the calories burned through the day, so I can try to keep my weight stable. Also I challenge myself to cut down on my time for each mile, and to try to keep my heart rate up improving the average for that exersize. I guess what works is what works. One of my next goals is to walk ten miles in one day.

BTW here is a straightforward BMR and maintenance calories calculator. What is different here is you select your activity level by how active you are, and not by the amount of exersize you do daily. This is good because my watch will provide the calories burned from my exersizing.

https://manytools.org/handy/bmr-calculator/