CRON-O-METER and exercise question

[Paul2001]

I have been using the Cron-O-Meter application since November 2012 and was wondering if anybody had an opinion on how to reconcile calories in from food, and calories expended in exercise.

 

I am using a three-pronged approach to achieving good health, with a healthy weight; Exercise on an almost daily basis, a calorie restricted- high nutrition diet, plus intermittent fasting (2 days out of 5).

My question is this. On fasting days when I only have around 600 calories for the day, I also usually cycle to work and back. Cron-O-Meter gives me around 550 calories back for this, more if I chose a longer route to work, which can give a negative 'calories consumed' figure. Is it realistic to use this reading to top-up my calories to my targeted 600? Should I stick to my programmed 600 cal on fasting days & 1800 cal on the other days and discount the 'refund' from exercise?

 

I am curious to know what people think - especially as I am just off to the swimming pool to attempt another 10km swim (Cron-O-Meter gives me around 2000 calories back for that!)

[Saul]

I have been using the Cron-O-Meter application since November 2012 and was wondering if anybody had an opinion on how to reconcile calories in from food, and calories expended in exercise.

 

I am using a three-pronged approach to achieving good health, with a healthy weight; Exercise on an almost daily basis, a calorie restricted- high nutrition diet, plus intermittent fasting (2 days out of 5).

My question is this. On fasting days when I only have around 600 calories for the day, I also usually cycle to work and back. Cron-O-Meter gives me around 550 calories back for this, more if I chose a longer route to work, which can give a negative 'calories consumed' figure. Is it realistic to use this reading to top-up my calories to my targeted 600? Should I stick to my programmed 600 cal on fasting days & 1800 cal on the other days and discount the 'refund' from exercise?

 

I am curious to know what people think - especially as I am just off to the swimming pool to attempt another 10km swim (Cron-O-Meter gives me around 2000 calories back for that!)

 

 

I ues CRON-O-METER, also, mostly to make sure that I get all of my micronutients in adequate amounts daily.

 

I also exercise six days a week.

 

IMHO, almost EVERY tool that I've looked at (including especially the manufacturers of the ProCor Elliptical Cross-Trainer that i use daily) exaggerate the number of calories burned by exercise.

Al Pater once published an interesting report on the ProCor, where it was carefully tested by careful, independent labwork -- the results showed that ProCor was exaggerating the number

of calories burned.CRON-O-METER has to get its available data from available sources -- often, I suspect, the manufacturers of the machines. (For example, for many foods, CRON will

list number of grams of protein per serving -- but will list 0% for every amino acid. Meaning that that's the only nutritional info available in the USA Database).

 

There are limitations from what you can expect from any nutrition tool; it's only as good as its database.

 

:(

 

-- Saul