Letting inaccurate user-generated nutrition info into the public database.Making you focus on getting to a specific “goal weight,” which is often detrimental to actually reaching your goal.Emphasizing the meaningless day-to-day body weight fluctuations that only stress you out and cause you to misinterpret what’s actually happening.Telling tons of women to eat 1200 calories a day.There are dozens of similar apps that are problematic for similar reasons. In fact, I’ve previously pointed out problems with MyFitnessPal specifically, like how they frequently recommend that women should eat 1200 calories a day even though that’s WAY lower than most women will ever need to eat.īut MyFitnessPal isn’t the only app getting things wrong. Most of the diet, workout, and progress tracking apps out there are fine for helping you track a few basic things each day.īut for damn near everything else? They suck. There are 4 important things you need to know… 1. Why is this, you ask? You’ll see in a second.

My diet tracking app (MyFitnessPal) makes it seem this way, but I just want to be sure.ĪNSWER: Ah yes, the “should I eat back the calories burned during exercise” question.ĭon’t take this personally, but I hate this question. QUESTION: I calculated that I need to eat 2000 calories a day to lose weight, but what about the calories I burn during my workouts? Should I be eating back those calories?įor example, if I burn 500 calories during my workout today, does that mean I can eat 2500 calories instead of 2000 and basically eat back the 500 calories I burned?

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