I don't understand the activity log..

I'm new!

I don't understand the activity section of the website. When I log what I've done for the day, I'm getting crazy calorie counts! I know I haven't burned 5170 calories, so am I misunderstanding something? are kcals not the same as calories? I don't know how to log what I've actually done in a day - I'm using a GRUVE to measure my calorie burn and I'd like to log what it says, but my "resting" calorie burn seems high.. can someone walk me through this?

thanks,
Bek

That's really hard to do when your profile is set to "private". No one can see your Diet Calendar, which shows what you're logging for exercise.

As far as dieting is concerned, kcals and calories are the same thing.

Your body burns calories even when sleeping. The exercise section on here calculates every activity you give it = with a default of 16 hrs resting and 8 hours sleeping. If I do nothing in a day, I still use up like 3000+ calories. So maybe thats the reason.

Well, thanks for the help, but I will keep my profile private until I learn more about what it is everyone can see.

Bek,
I would suggest using "other" and logging in your burned calories manually until you get the hang of things. You are absolutely right 5000+ calories does sound quite high. Good luck with figuring it all out. Maybe it's a glitch? I guess I would try tech assist if something doesn't change.
Brandi

I posted my exercise today, but it didn't show up when I went to my diet calendar. Any suggestions?
thanks

I'm seeing the same problem as well; exercises entered aren't offsetting calories consumed. I sent a quick message to the website folks about this bug.

I didn't realize that I needed to actually weigh myself again, after initially reporting my weight when I first registered.

how do i disable the sleep and rest, and just add exercise i do?

You just add new exercise and take the hours away from the rest and sleep numbers.

thanks Brandico,

Its a bit weird, why cant I just delete the rest and sleep? Anyway, I invented a new exercise called 'Nothing' which unfortunately only burns 1 calorie every 23 hours ,

apart from that, must say Im very impressed with the website, cant believe its free, and it syncs beautifully with my Android phone

Um, you just don't believe that sleeping and resting burn as many calories as they say? Because if you're not "resting," but doing "nothing," doesn't that mean you're not breathing, digesting, metabolizing, growing new cells, defending against infection, circulating your blood - all those things that you do while resting? If you've found a way to go into stasis or hibernation for the day, maybe you could share that secret?
p.s. go Android!

Even though my exercise diary will tell me that I've burned a lot of calories, I still limit the calories I eat to my RCI.

As previously stated you are ALWAYS burning calories 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, even when we are sleeping. You are burning calories even if you are in a coma. The amount of calories you burn when doing "nothing" is called your basal metabolic rate which is determined by approximation according your weight. This is the amount of "energy" you expend even when you are only "breathing, digesting, metabolizing, growing new cells, defending against infection, circulating your blood" as Rahm stated. Without these calculations for resting and sleeping there is no way to calculate the real amount of energy you need in a day to sustain you and make sure you are meeting your basic nutritional requirements.

I'm looking for a way to delete a previously entered excersize. Lets say I planned on running this evening so I enter my planned workout then find out that I have to work late so I cann't run. How do I go back and delete the shedule run?

I haven't done it before, but my guess is that you would decrease the workout time by the full amount, and dump it all into another activity. So for example, if it's a work day and you plan to do cardio for 30 minutes and weight training for 30 minutes, and that's what you load into the log, taking that time away from rest time. But a special project comes up and you have to work late, so you decide to blow off the workout entirely. Decrease the cardio by 30 minutes and dump the 30 minutes into desk work (since you're working late) and do the same for the weight training. I don't know that this is the right way, but at the very least, even if it doesn't remove it from the list, it should bring the exercises down to zero time spent on them.