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I have a little comment, not a bad one on the measurement of 'exercise' here on Fatsecret, some of the things that they deem as exercise, cannot surely be used as a reason for burning the calories from our lovely bodies?
For example each day as I log in my daily sufferings, some of the suggested exercises can be 'watching TV' 'sleeping' 'resting'. For instance today I am told that my 1 1/2 hour walk is worth 750 calories of burnt energy, but yet the website automatically adds on sleeping and resting as being constituted into the remainder of the days exercises, though technically, as long as your heart beats you are burning calories, but lying in bed dreaming about being chased beach ball playing fashion around some Hawaiian beach by your dream person, in your dreamy new slim you(which will happen by the way if you work hard at it) can not be constituted as exercise from where I am standing. As is sitting on my computer playing Candy Crush hour on end?
Yes, I understand the principal of burnt energy, but surely is it not when you are out there, off your posterior, heart beating hard, sweat pouring, breath racing, mind focused on finishing, whether it be in the gym, out for a walk with the dog, yoga or whatever, then those burnt calories offset against your intake, surely this is the path to success rather than being in the mindset of "Well I burn 3000 calories sitting on my backside and lying on my back, so I don't need to go for a walk/run" because that is the vibe I'm getting from the exercise section of my daily inputs here on Fatsecret?
Anyway, I hope you are all well today, and greetings from a very cold, very wet, very windy Ireland!
A question I would really like answered also, is how do you get settings on your fat secret exercises page, so you can cancel out the likes of resting etc, because my one won't let me do it.
Diet Calendar Entries for 30 January 2015:
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810 kcal
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Fat: 31.88g | Prot: 35.49g | Carb: 106.66g.
Breakfast: Plain Yogurt, Green Tea, Honey, Oatmeal, Wheat Bran (Crude), Oat Bran. Lunch: Cod Liver Fish Oil, Lettuce, Ground Beef (Cooked), Tomatoes, Mayonnaise, Ultimate Grains Whole Grain Bread. Dinner: Cucumber (with Peel), Quaker Rice Cakes - Lightly Salted. more...
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4031 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 2 hours and 30 minutes, Resting - 21 hours and 30 minutes. more...
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Another little thing I have noticed too, quite humourous was the fact that you can log having sex as an exercise, I am looking forward to seeing someone who has used this for the sheer gall to put it on a public website to show how they burned their calories today, personally I would put in 'housework' or similar, I would be too embarrassed to put that up(no pun intended!)
30 Jan 15 by member: peter the fat man
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Challenge accepted LOL. Activities of daily life burn calories.
30 Jan 15 by member: jparlett
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your points are definitely valid - but i am with bill -- set your sleep/rest, then if you like, set a "sitting" amount - and if you do exercise, count it. Though i would underestimate - as the activity calories are generous, just like the RDI. it is not an exact science, for sure. But, any type of tracking is better than none. Overestimate what you eat, and underestimate what you do - and as long as what you do is less than what you eat, hopefully good things happen.
30 Jan 15 by member: br_e_co
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I'm with Bill on how FatSecret tracks activity. I used to log in everything, estimating time standing, housework, etc, and according to the website I was burning 3500 or more calories a day. I'd eat 1700 to 1800 calories and supposedly have a huge deficit, yet my weight loss didn't match up with it. So now I just enter my actual exercise. I suspect the calories listed for that may also be a little inflated.
30 Jan 15 by member: jmb3450
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Just one more thought, IMO the most important thing is to enter what we eat accurately into our food diary, so we know what our intake was. Combined with setting a proper RDI, we then can have a better idea of how much to eat just by the results we get over time.
30 Jan 15 by member: jmb3450
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