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.

Just adding my "here, here" to this discussion. It kind of throws me off a little when I check my analysis for the week and see a spike in my 1200 calorie days to 2000 calories - I have to try and remember that I also burned more calories that day. A daily rundown of net calories would be much more helpful to track whether I'm meeting my weight loss goals.

Original Post by slicey:

Just adding my "here, here" to this discussion. It kind of throws me off a little when I check my analysis for the week and see a spike in my 1200 calorie days to 2000 calories - I have to try and remember that I also burned more calories that day. A daily rundown of net calories would be much more helpful to track whether I'm meeting my weight loss goals.

Weekly bump!

Yep, I'm still having this annoyance myself. I biked about 20 miles yesterday. The day before I biked 14, the day before 8. Different numbers of calories, all 3 days. I want to go look back over the week and see how I did. The exercise is missing, making the calorie totals almost meaningless. And don't tell me "write it in your journal," because that's not what the journal's for, and then I don't have the rest of the analysis on the same page!

auriam, thanks for championing this issue, I just want to vehemently agree with your suggestions, I hope CC can accomodate these requests!!!

I agree with adding the exercise component. I have spent ALL day on this site trying to find out what are the recommended salt, carb, protein, etc amounts. When I get a "B-" grade is it because I ate too much fat? or salt? or alcohol? It would really help me fine-tune my eating if while you are adding the exercising component maybe "color-code" the values--RED for items that are too high, GREEN for items too low, BLACK for 'in range'. For example, if you ate too much salt--print the salt and amount in RED. If you didn't eat enough protein--print it in GREEN. If you were in the range print in black.

I LOVE this site and the support. Thanks!

i SO hope we will have these new features!

Original Post by ka2007:

i SO hope we will have these new features!

Me too.

A great idea.  Hopefully it will get instituted quickly.

yeah

I have an Excel sheet that really helps get the most out of this site. When you put in the calories burned and the calories you consumed, it automatically subtracts your resting calories and then tell you how many negative or positive calories you had for that day. It keeps a running total in the far right column. Then it divides by 3,500 (calories in a lb.) and tells you how weight much you have or have not lost. 

So far it has been perfectly accurate. What it says I have lost is exactly what the scale says. This really helps keep me motivated when I can see my actual progress daily. If you would like this Excel sheet I could email it to you.

I have only been a member for 3 weeks and have lost 14 lbs with this site. Thank you caloriecount.com!

hotstratman4u2, i am so jealous.  my biggest problem is trying to figure out how many calories i burn 1)just living and 2) in particular activities.  did you get your basal metabolic rate calculated/measured professionally, or did you just use CC's estimate?  and what'd you use (sedentary or the actual activity level you think you're at)? 

as for calories burned doing activites, this has been by far the most complicated for me.  i even have a heart rate monitor and don't really believe the numbers, bec the estimates don't take muscle mass into account AND base your calorie burn estimate on a pretty rough VO2 max estimate.  do you just use CC's calorie burn estimates?  in addition, i lift weights.  and you burn zilcho in the weight room but lots afterwards (you know, EPOC); do you not count any of that at all and just add in only the few calories you burn while lifting?

congratulations on your success.  i love that you've been able to feel confident about your journey bec the numbers have made logical sense.

I just use the ccs estimate. I checked seditary, so I have more to work for. Even at seditary I am burning around 2600 calories a day even if I don't workout. I try to do 30 cardio and 30 to 40 minutes weight training. When I am lifting weights I lift for sets of 12 reps and I wear a watch so I can only rest for 30 seconds exactly in between sets.

Oh and by the way, the 30 minutes weight training burns alot more calories than the 30 minutes on the elliptical. I ussually burn 600-800 calories when I workout. I  keep my calories below 2000. so I am creating a deficit of -600 calories on days when I don't workout and -1,200 to -1500 on the days that I do. I have an excell chart I have created to do all of the stuff that cc doesn't but should. If you would like I could send it to you via email.

Vince

Weekly bump... people are still asking about this. Why does FitDay have 3x the numbers we do?... think about it.

http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/post/952 50.html

I agree having the net calories and calories burned would be a great improvement.  I currently enter my total calories in and calories burned into a spreadsheet. However, if I get busy or don't have access to my computer then the burn numbers are gone the next day unless I re-enter the exact exercise done and then remember to delete it once I've recorded it in the spreadsheet. I also have to make sure I haven't changed my weight log.

I would also like to see a link or listing of the RDA % of major vitamins/minerals (ie Vitamin A, C, Calcium, Iron,etc) listed. Similar to how it currently shows the average daily sodium level when I veiw a week or month. I know I can point to the date to see this information for any given day but would like to be able to see how I'm doing over time as some days I may be way over say on Calcium but then another day may be way under.  It would be nice to see if over time I'm reaching my daily levels or not.

Original Post by oldwalker:

A great idea.  Hopefully it will get instituted quickly.

Quickly?! This thread was started 8 months ago yesterday. Seems like a very easy thing to add. I've only been using the site for a month but it appears that changes such as this and adding foods to the database do not occur quickly. What gives?

If someone combined Fitday, MyPlate and this one it would be a much better place.

This would rock!  Seriously, I think it would help a lot... well, for me anyway.  I vote yes admins...

I want to add my dittos too, I recently e-mailed this suggestion via the comments page for site feedback.  I hadn't seen this string yet!  But how are you supposed to keep close track of a period longer than "a day" unless you sit in front of the computer all day and can log every single item as it goes in your mouth and every single activity as soon as you return from exercising.  You will never know by the end of a week or a month if the reason you are or aren't losing is because your moving too little or eating to much, because you can't see your log of net deficits or calorie credits.

PLEASSSSSSEEEEE!

Bump.

Sigh.

Agreed!

Also.. I had an idea about the calorie monitor too.  See my post: http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/post/112 539.html

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