Is my math right? Is that really my deficit for yesterday?

I recently added in a morning run to my daily activity and when I added up my calories burned yesterday, it kinda worries me that I have to large of a deficit. Am I figuring this up correctly?

First, I am male, 37 yr old, currently 195, 6'3". According to my calculations, my base sedentary burn rate is around 2,400. My exercise yesterday was:

Morning
3 mile run - 420 calories
Afternoon
10 minute jog in place warm-up - 120 calories
40 minutes on Wii Active - 220 calories
1.75 mile run - 230 calories

All of that totals 990 calories burned. That plus my base sedentary rate of 2,400 gives me a total burn of 3,390 calories.

Here's the worrying part. The total of all my calories consumed yesterday was right at 1,700 (give or take 25 calories); my daily goal is 1,600-1,800 so this was right on track for me. Does that mean I had a true deficit yesterday of 1,690 calories? Before anyone says it, yes, I understand that is way too much of a deficit. If it is accurate,  I will just have to start adding in extra calories into my daily plan. Any input is welcome. Thanks.

Not exactly, because the time that you spent doing those things was time spent not being sedentary (the 2400 assumes 24 hours of sedentary). But that will only change your total by a couple hundred at most.

I think that if you are burning 2400 just being sedentary, and you are working out 1 or 2 times per day, 1600-1800 is far too low a calorie goal for you.

So wait... i didnt burn 430 calories doing taebo today?

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MY LIFE IS RUINED. IM EATING TOO MUCH. MY HRM IS A LIAR.

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huh?

I think she was referring to the fact she didn't subtract out her normal sedentary burn from her figured burn for that hour of exercise which I totally didn't do either. Thanks for bring that to my attention.

MATH TIME - My total workout time (morning & afternoon) yesterday was 1 hr 40 minutes. If my sedentary burn rate is 2,400/day, that is roughly 100 cal/hour so the time I spent working out I would've burned approx 166 calories. So, if I subtract that out, I still have a total burn yesterday of 3,224 calories and with the 1,700 I consumed, that means I had a deficit of approx 1,524 calories. Still way to high! I figure I need to eat AT LEAST another 500-600 calories on days that I workout like this. Insightful. Thanks!

Thats what i meant too.

I did teabo today and "burned" 430 calories. in like 40 minutes.

Does this mean i really burned like. 200, or something? gah. That means i dont have that almost 500 cal deficit? :(

No, it doesn't mean that.

I don't know your stats, but I can assume that you are smaller than dnsmills, and therefore don't have a sedentary burn of 2400 (which would be, as he said, 100cal/hr).

.More realistically, you burn closer to 60cal/hour, which means you'd only need to subtract 40 cals from your HRM's total (40 minutes is 2/3 of an hour). So you burned 390 instead of 430.

If you're adding this in cc under the "activity" page, the site automatically subracts the sedentary calories from your daily burn.  So if I tell the site I spent 30 minutes doing elliptical, and burned 300 calories, it only adds 240-ish to my burn meter.

The site does your math for you!

Let me see if i get this right...i did an hour of working out and i entered in the cc does that meen cc already deducted it for me? so what ever i have as a defiect is correct?

CC does the math when you add activity, so as long as you are looking at the Total Estimate and comparing it to the total you've eaten, that's the correct deficit.

Original Post by amethystgirl:

No, it doesn't mean that.

I don't know your stats, but I can assume that you are smaller than dnsmills, and therefore don't have a sedentary burn of 2400 (which would be, as he said, 100cal/hr).

.More realistically, you burn closer to 60cal/hour, which means you'd only need to subtract 40 cals from your HRM's total (40 minutes is 2/3 of an hour). So you burned 390 instead of 430.

My sedentary burn is 1950 or something. Im 5'5, 18, at 185 lbs.

Which would be like. 81 cals/hour ?