Question about MyPlate and Nutrition Tracking
Found out about MyPlate from a redditor yesterday.
I'm entering my food and fitness data myself, so I chose the sedentary activity level. My goal for weight loss is .3 pounds a week, and so it gave me a base of around 1,900 calories a day to achieve this goal.
Yesterday I consumed 2325 calories and burned 1761 (I included sleeping, eating, and sitting at my desk on the computer at work, didn't get to exercise yesterday, so it would usually be higher) MyPlate says I had 1347 calories remaining.
To me this math seems wrong. Could I really consume 3,672 (2325+1347) and still lose weight? There's no way. Don't I need to burn more calories than I consume to lose weight? Could someone explain why MyPlate is calculating things like this and how I edit it to be more realistic.
Thanks guys.
tdlr: MyPlate wants me to be a fatty.
Posted Apr 15, 2010, 5:23 PM UTC
stop entering activities such as sleeping or sitting at your computer and only enter exercise or particularly strenuous activity (an hour of yard work, or other chore that requires you to be pretty active). iirc, when you set your 'activity level' it kind of loosely calculates that you will be sleeping, sitting, etc. and generally being sedentary. when you enter "slept - 8 hours", it skews the totals as it's counting calories burned during this time twice.
tldr; only enter actual exercise under activities