15/02/2022
❌STOP FOCUSING ON CALORIES BURNT❌
Do you use your smartwatch or Fitbit to track how many calories you burn?
But are you still not able to lose weight and wondering why?
Then this post is for you👇🏼
The number you get shown on your devices, be it a smart watch, fit bit, or even a cardio piece of equipment are all estimates.
A lot of the time they are inaccurate.
Which leads to people over estimating how much they should consume to burn fat and why they tend to not see a difference when dieting.
Don’t get me wrong it’s great to get a ballpark figure but to take it quite literally into your individual activity is where a lot of people go wrong.
Everyone burns a different amount of calories depending on their body composition, intensity & duration.
For example -
Whilst you may have ran for 30mins (the same duration as someone else) you have two different body compositions, so therefore your energy output is not going to be the same.
This is also the case with intensity.
Whilst your duration may of been the same as another person, they may of ran an average of 20s faster per mile.
So not only are your devices inaccurate but comparison to people around you isn’t the best route either.
Focus on yourself as an individual and don’t rely on outside information for how you and your body performs.
By all means still use your fitbits and smart watches to get an idea, I’m definitely not saying don’t use them.
But don’t take it quite literally to the point where you think
“Oh I burned 300 cals on my run today that means I can have an extra couple slices of pizza with dinner”
Because you may have actually only burned 180cals and those extra slices will stop you from being in a deficit.
Just something to think about if you are using devices to track calories burnt but the scales aren’t moving.