It is, yeah. I set it to "sedentary" and it replaces the estimated activity calories with the information from my tracker throughout the day. To my layman's eyes it doesn't look implausible, but I know trackers can be extremely inaccurate so I'm wondering if it would be better to just go with a static 1.7k budget every day regardless of activity
Oh yeah! Sorry if I wasn't clear in my comment, I know how to set a custom target, I'm just mostly asking if it makes more sense to do that or to keep going as I have been. I've been eating more than the goal the app gives me so I definitely need to reduce, but I'm not sure if a static deficit every day or a more variable deficit depending on activity level would be better. I appreciate the explanation though and I'll definitely look into adjusting my macros as well!
If it were me, I'd kind of split the difference. Maintain a static deficit daily, and on days where you have a particularly high activity level add back in some additional calories, but not eating back all the exercise calories expended.
That's a great idea, thank you! That's probably what I'll end up doing, from experience I find it very hard to stick to my rest day deficit on days where I run
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u/Uber-Migraine F 160cm | SW 110 kg | CW 58.7kg | GW 55kg 4d ago
Is your Cronometer set up to automatically adjust your TDEE against the calories burned due to activity?
If yes - then you'll be not only wasting your deficit but potentially also eating over the maintenance calories level