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Originally Posted by Tucson
1084 calories? I do not think so! Depending on how much effort I put into my walks, I average 115 calories per mile. But you are in better shape than I am. Maybe you burn off less than 100 calories a mile? So this makes for at most 670 calories, and probably less. So I think your conservative 443 calories that you pegged for the exercise is more accurate than the 1084 calories. I have a similar problem with my watch which overstates the calories for normal daily activity. MFP adjusts it down for me in a significant way which is what it should do.
I am anxious to find out how my weight will change now that I am following MFPs daily goal for calories. This should prove to be interesting. If I continue to gain weight, then I will start taking a percentage off of what MFP states as my calorie goal. I can start by dropping calories stated for normal daily activity. My maintenance calories without exercise calculates to be about 2090 which should include a good part of this.
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Actually, I left 443 as still available, so I used 641, which is close to what you computed. I think yesterday was largely a wash, but that Wednesday "caught up" with me. Wednesday I logged 45 minutes of paddling for 221 calories and then went 55 over, so really 276. I actually paddled 90 minutes and 65 of them were nearly non stop and high effort. I probably burned 600+ in actuality. So, what do I mean by "caught up"? I was expecting 160 or more this morning because I felt like I ate too much yesterday. I weigh 157.8, the lowest reading I have seen so far.
Your percentage idea is interesting. I enter my own base calories because the estimate is too high. I shave exercise calories because the estimate is too high. I am not just kidding myself; I have stayed around 160 several weeks so I am eating maintenance or nearly so until recently when I dropped my base by 100 and now may be seeing a slow creep down. Had I used mfp's setting of 1910 and accepted the full 1084 calories from Strava, that would be roughly 3000 calories and I think ~2100 would have been more accurate, which is 70% of what mfp calculates. That's a pretty big fudge factor (mmm - fudge!) but I think Strava was off way more than mfp. Maybe I should switch walks back to MMW. I like Strava more for paddling.