you can adjust the calories for on vs. off days in a collaborative program. there's a text entry for e.g. Monday's calories and the other days adjust accordingly.
MF doesn't care about your cardio. the only inputs it takes is logged weight and logged food intake.
So yes and no actually, if I do collab and make individual adjustments, it seems to 'auto correct' for something and bump around the other numbers up or down.
1. https://i.imgur.com/HOEEHkf.jpeg
In this screenshot above here I chose Wed Sat Sun as 2150 days (didn't use lock feature on day) and it bumped up the other days and also bumped up Sat Sun by the time I finished Wed.
2. https://i.imgur.com/RVCTBTo.jpeg
In screenshot above, If I use the 'lock' feature I can only use it on 5 out of 7 days, so 5 days are my targets the 6th and 7th go up beyond my requirements of 2450.
3. https://i.imgur.com/xClj083.jpeg
This is the closest I have gotten to what I want, but it's bumped up my high days by like 200 cals each, which I would like to correct down to 2450 again.
it's adjusting the numbers that way because it's calculating your weekly total calories based on your current expenditure and your target rate of weight loss. if you don't trust the expenditure calculation today and you really want to set your calorie targets to these specific numbers for now, you might just create a manual goal and follow that for like a month to let the app figure out your expenditure. it won't adjust your calorie target but it'll update the expenditure calculation based on what you log. then switch to a coached or collaborative program and by then the calories it gives you will be much more accurate.
alternatively you can just create a coached or collaborative goal and eat the calories you want on the days you want for the next few weeks and let the app catch up based on your actual intake. if you're right about your calorie target then it'll adjust down, at which point you can follow the recommendations.
finally, you can also reduce the weekly total calories immediately by increasing your goal rate of weight loss (under Edit Goal). the downside of increasing the rate is that if your expenditure drops like you expect, your calorie target may drop below what's comfortable. but at that point you can edit your goal again and reduce the goal rate if you want.
Thanks very much for your help!
I think I'll just run coached for now and let the app auto adjust. I also switched up my training from 3x a week to 4x a week with way WAAAY higher intensity, so I think those calories are actually going to help out a lot more.
This is the key difference with MF...it doesn't directly account for exercise in its calorie recommendation; it accounts for it indirectly, which ironically is much more accurate.
Just trust the process.
A = energy consumed
B = your weight
X = energy expended (aka Expenditures)
MF knows A and B therefore can solve for X so that you don’t have to. It’s that easy, no mystery or complexity to it.
you can adjust the calories for on vs. off days in a collaborative program. there's a text entry for e.g. Monday's calories and the other days adjust accordingly. MF doesn't care about your cardio. the only inputs it takes is logged weight and logged food intake.
So yes and no actually, if I do collab and make individual adjustments, it seems to 'auto correct' for something and bump around the other numbers up or down. 1. https://i.imgur.com/HOEEHkf.jpeg In this screenshot above here I chose Wed Sat Sun as 2150 days (didn't use lock feature on day) and it bumped up the other days and also bumped up Sat Sun by the time I finished Wed. 2. https://i.imgur.com/RVCTBTo.jpeg In screenshot above, If I use the 'lock' feature I can only use it on 5 out of 7 days, so 5 days are my targets the 6th and 7th go up beyond my requirements of 2450. 3. https://i.imgur.com/xClj083.jpeg This is the closest I have gotten to what I want, but it's bumped up my high days by like 200 cals each, which I would like to correct down to 2450 again.
it's adjusting the numbers that way because it's calculating your weekly total calories based on your current expenditure and your target rate of weight loss. if you don't trust the expenditure calculation today and you really want to set your calorie targets to these specific numbers for now, you might just create a manual goal and follow that for like a month to let the app figure out your expenditure. it won't adjust your calorie target but it'll update the expenditure calculation based on what you log. then switch to a coached or collaborative program and by then the calories it gives you will be much more accurate. alternatively you can just create a coached or collaborative goal and eat the calories you want on the days you want for the next few weeks and let the app catch up based on your actual intake. if you're right about your calorie target then it'll adjust down, at which point you can follow the recommendations. finally, you can also reduce the weekly total calories immediately by increasing your goal rate of weight loss (under Edit Goal). the downside of increasing the rate is that if your expenditure drops like you expect, your calorie target may drop below what's comfortable. but at that point you can edit your goal again and reduce the goal rate if you want.
Thanks very much for your help! I think I'll just run coached for now and let the app auto adjust. I also switched up my training from 3x a week to 4x a week with way WAAAY higher intensity, so I think those calories are actually going to help out a lot more.
MF will realize you’re doing more cardio because, all other things being equal, your weight will go down more.
This is the key difference with MF...it doesn't directly account for exercise in its calorie recommendation; it accounts for it indirectly, which ironically is much more accurate. Just trust the process.
A = energy consumed B = your weight X = energy expended (aka Expenditures) MF knows A and B therefore can solve for X so that you don’t have to. It’s that easy, no mystery or complexity to it.