For Accurate Calorie Counting, Do Not Track Your Activity
Diet and exercise are important parts of a weight loss plan , but calorie counting apps are only good for tracking half of the equation: diet. Logging your activity can skew your idea of how many calories you should eat.
Monica Reinagel, nutrition diva at Quick and Dirty Tips , writes that diet trackers don’t record the calories you burn well for three reasons:
- It is difficult to choose the right baseline activity level . Are you “active” or “weak”? An incorrect answer can change the app’s rating by several hundred calories.
- The standard calories per hour for an activity may not accurately reflect what you were doing . Your body may be working more or less efficiently than they suggest, or you may have simply been taking more water breaks.
- Apps can fail twice by adding calories burned during a session to your daily sitting calories. They should really just calculate the difference between them.
Instead, she says, you should keep a close eye on how you set the baseline and then not log any additional actions. Visit the link for her complete understanding of how to use the diet tracker without letting it sabotage your weight loss.
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