Terry Morse wrote in message ...
gds wrote:

And what good does knowing this do? I'm serious. I mean if you have
fun keeping track of this that's fine with me. But what nutritional
value does it add? Will you eat more to make up a "deficit" or eat
less because you in "surplus"?

Yes. If I burn more calories than usual on a given day, I'll eat
more that evening. If it was a particularly long day (5000+ kcal),
I'll even eat two dinners. I'll still eat the same amount during a
ride, just to keep from bonking. I can't afford to lose any weight,
so the calorie monitor keeps me from doing that.


Don't yo just feel more hungry? Of course if you excersize more you'll
need to replace more calories. But do you really need to calculate
this-especially as the calculation is probably not much more accurate
than your guesstimating that you "need" an extra helping of lasagna.
I'm sorry and don't mean to be attacking anyone. But my experience in
sports and training has now run about 50 years. This includes years of
training for sports in which weight was critical-wrestling, boxing,
karate-as well as running and cycling and I have neve once needed to
calculate calories burned.
Well perhaps my age (60) has something to do with it. When I was
really serious about training there was no such calculator.
Again, I have no problem with folks doing this but it certainly isn't
necessary.