Can anyone explain these numbers when using the Loseit! App?
I’m tracking my calories and exercise using my Apple Watch. I’m a little confused by how this app I’m using (called Loseit!) tracks exercise.
I’m 33, 6ft 4 and 14 stone 12. Looking online so my BMR should be roughly 2000Kcal although this app reports my Apple Watch says 2352kcal (I’m assuming my true BMR is somewhere within this range and my watch is taking lifestyle into account.)
At any rate, I assumed my BMR was the amount I would burn in a day by doing minimal or no movement, so if I do no exercise I need to eat this much to maintain my same weight.
Lose it is giving me a target daily calorie of around 1800 net during the week and 2000 on weekends to hit my goal.
I’ve been assuming net calories are calories in minus active calories burned. So if I ate 2300 calories but burned 800 active calories my net would be 1500. My BMR is (say 2300) so I’d be at a deficit of 800 that day (just as an example)
But in the screenshot I posted from the app, I burned 855 active calories but the amount it deducted from my food was the 312 at the bottom, as they’re using something called my “target energy burn” which I don’t understand.
If my resting calorie burn is around 2300 and I’m eating 2000 calories a day, surely I don’t need to burn anything extra to maintain or lose weight.
I’m still doing around an hour exercise each day and keeping under my calories, I just don’t understand where this app is getting these numbers from.
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