Is there anyway to stop my fitness pal trying to starve me on days that I’m not active? 1500 is fine but any lower I’m at risk of putting my body into starvation mode.
by Uncaged_Menace33
Is there anyway to stop my fitness pal trying to starve me on days that I’m not active? 1500 is fine but any lower I’m at risk of putting my body into starvation mode.
by Uncaged_Menace33
10 Comments
Just don’t use fitness pal
You could just eat more than it suggests?
I don’t use my fitness pal but does it start the day at -1000 calories exercise you have to “earn” back? That sounds like a great way to develop an unhealthy relationship with exercise.
I would tell whatever app you’re sedentary and allow it to add calories with exercise. I use lose it and it’s connected to Fitbit, it doesn’t go crazy (I get about +50 calories for a 30 minute swim)
Are you trying to lose weight? I typically don’t rely on any exercise equipment for calories burnt. Typically they over estimate the amount. So just stick to your regular calories budget, and assume the exercise is just bonus calories deficit.
And you mentioned adhd and ocd, do you actually have those or is it a self diagnosis based on social media?
Starvation mode?
Lose It doesn’t do this. Instead it gives you bonus calories for exceeding your calories burned.
I don’t understand what’s going on here. On mine the exercise is + not -. Maybe just a bug? I would try deleting and reinstalling.
Is it that you have it set high with a certain amount of exercise then you delete the exercise on days when you’re not active? If that’s the case maybe try having it set at 1500 and then adding exercise on top instead.
You can manually set calories in FYP and turn off exercise calories
Change your activity level to sedentary and then turn off the exercise calories. Just have a goal to hit every day. If you workout, that’s just a bonus (don’t eat your calories back).
I’m not sure what’s going on here. Is it saying you need to eat less because you worked out? Just turn that feature off or use a different app if you can’t. I turn off all exercise tracking on LoseIt because those things vastly overestimate calories burned. I don’t adjust what I eat unless I’m marathon training (for example, an hour of Orange Theory followed by a 6-8 mile run). Just an FYI starvation mode is a myth in this context.