Analysis should include calories burned...

The analysis page under My Account is very handy tool to total-up your foods into fat, protein and carbs, etc.

However for healthy weight loss it is the net calories that is important (calorie surplus, -500 cal/wk, not eating enough?). The Analysis page really should include your calories burned for each day.

I've mentioned this before in the feedback section without any significant response, but perhaps if other users feel the same way and include their opinion to this topic (a sort of petition) the administrators will add this feature.

Good point. I, too, would find it very useful if the analysis included activity.

 

 

i agree.  my suspicion, since you have requested this already and nothing changed, is that perhaps it's hard to program this feature into the analysis.  the idea would be easy enough conceptually (it makes a lot of sense); as for implementation, i have no idea how feasible it is.

i will definitely sign a petition request for a more comprehensive analysis page, though.  so let me know if you create something. 

I agree.  I was just thinking that the other day.  It'd be nice to correlate a high calorie day to a high activity day (eg, ate an extra 500 cals, but also worked out an extra 600 cals).

 

Erik/Igor, please add this feature!! :)

I'm going to tag along to this chain and say yes! Please do this! It's hard enough for me to log my foods and exercises every week- it would be great to be able to calculate a caloric deficit as well! And while we're at it- to be able to do so over a specified date range! Thanks :)

I agree because it appears that we are being graded when we look at an analysis over a specific period on our calories consumed. It does not factor in the calories burned for the day. I now have a grade of C+ but I do not believe that is accurate because I burn a good portion of calories at least 3 days a week, on the elliptical machine and spinning class as well as weight lifting. Can someone please fix...no enhance this feature to be more accurate. Thanks.  :)

Thanks for this feedback - we are currently looking at ways to improve the analysis and will be thinking about how we can incorporate the daily net caloric balance, including cals burned into the analysis.

As pointed out above - the grade is only based upon the foods you eat (that can be graded) and does not include your activity/expenditure.

I agree... i need to know if it all really adds up.

It would also be great if your daily burn totals were stored in the activity log - rather than just the exercises that you add in.

I think the grade is based on the nutrition in the foods, rather than the calories. You can log just an apple (which is clearly not enough food for one day) and get an A, or you can log the same amount of calories of butter (also not enough food for a day) and get an F.

It would be good to have a record of daily expenditure. I have to write mine down so that I can look back at it. A couple of times I've forgotten, and then I have to add on the exercises to today and then remove them - it's a real pain.

Yes, this is the one area I desperately would like to see improved. I want to go to the analysis and see a log of how many kcal I burned that day. I can do the math to figure out if there was a surplus or not that day. My kcal burned per day vary a lot, so it's difficult to figure roughly how many kcal in total I have burned for the week/month/etc.

I'm not concerned that the GRADE given calculate the exercise. I realize that is a nutrition grade, which is fine enough for me. I can calculate for myself my own exercise grade if I had the burned kcal listed for each day. 

 

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I completely agree!  It would also help to see a chart of net calorie burn over time.

I very vehement DITTO on this request.  I have asked before too.  It would be helpful to pull the eating and burning together, and totals over time would be great too!  I've even tried to pull my weekly food intake into EXCEL and then do calculations from there but it won't import as values, only text and then all in one column.  I'm still working on it though. 

Yea, I have one in excel too, but it means I have to enter my total calories on a daily basis.  It takes quite a bit of time to manage both the cc.com info and my excel schedule.  Wish they'd just put it on cc.

So actually, there is a way to import your monthly or weekly calorie info into EXCEL .  It's  little clumsy so I'm not sure it's worth it.  You pull up your calories eaten over "past 7 days" or "this month" or "last month" whatever you want.  Then you highlight only the food info, so just make sure you are not highlighting the whole page or you'll get all the adverts and stuff and that won't work.  Then paste it as text into excel into the first cell, column A.  All the info will in the first column.  You can then put a formula in column B that reads =right(A1, 4) which essentially says pull over the last 4 places in cell A1 which will include your calories.  You then will have to copy column B values into column C so that you can use those number to make calculations

 Again, this is clumsy and it doesn't work for totals so you'll have to go in and tweak the incorrect info.  And what to do about cals burned, don't know! 

Frankly the fun for me was figuring out how to do it but I don't think I'll use it unless I'm desperate.  

I am a new user, about one week, and arrived here because I thought I was missing a piece of information.  I would also like to see the calorie burn vs calories consumed on the same report as well.

Yes!  I agree whole-heartedly!  I have written about this before too.  I would like to be able to see a log (and hopefully, a graph!) of my net calories for each day.  It would be sooo useful to be able to look at my weight graph and my net calories graph together (like on the same plot maybe even?)  That way you could really see visually how the two are correlated.

Adding my request to this - I burn extra each day through exercise and it immediately makes the calorie goal and burn/intake comparison disjointed.

One word: BUMP!

Thanks for this feedback - we are currently looking at ways to improve the analysis and will be thinking about how we can incorporate the daily net caloric balance, including calories burned into the analysis.

Original Post by sheila_c:

Thanks for this feedback - we are currently looking at ways to improve the analysis and will be thinking about how we can incorporate the daily net caloric balance, including calories burned into the analysis.

Here's one way you could do it:

• calories eaten - calories burned = net caloric balance

• insert  column to the right of 'Calories' for 'Burned'

• insert  column after 'Net Calories' and before 'Grams', call it 'Net Calories'.

That's all that needs to be done to incorporate it - other than the database coding, etc, which I realize is much more complicated... but you've done such a great job of making so many other useful numbers and tools, this one should be a piece of cake :)

Perhaps you could add 'est.' to the name of the column, or an asterisk, if you want to point to it when people ask why the weight loss isn't exactly equal to the net caloric deficit, and you can link to an explanation page which says that activity calories are more uncertain.

The deficit number could be added together to yield a total, averages, projected weight loss, estimated weight loss from past numbers, or even corrected by a certain factor to account for people's individual differences in metabolism and the difference between past projected weight loss and the actual weight loss.

 

But really, all we need to shoot for is that certain number per day, and it'd be nice to know how we were doing, on average, when we look back over a period of time...

and again, yesterday, I had a day in which I did a LOT of exercise and didn't sleep much if at all... biked 10 miles, swam, and did weightlifting and ellipticals... and I was hungry all day, so I ate.

But when I look at my analysis, all it's going to show is "3500 calories" making it look like a 'bad' day instead of a good day. What's wrong with just putting something in there to account for our hard work exercising and burning, and still making a significant net calorie burn? Again: NET CALORIES is the most important number we're tracking in this entire endeavor!

Every other site acknowledges this and puts it front and center... why don't we? It's not too late to change... people will get used to it and thank you for it.  It'll keep the site competitive!