While calorie tracking apps are a very useful invention that can help you lose weight and keep track of your nutritional intake, they can also make mistakes that will end up setting you back. 

Weight loss/gain, when boiled down to its most basic form, is the equation of calories in vs. calories out. There's 3,500 calories in a pound, so if your goals is to lose 1lb a week you need to burn 3,500 more calories in that timeframe than you consume through food. This is called a caloric defecit.

Many of these trackers have a "net calorie" function. What this does is take your total daily caloric allowance, and add any calories burned due to exercise onto that number. This function allows you to "eat back" your calories burned, theoretically keeping you below your alloted number needed to lose weight.

For example if you're allowed 2,000 calories in a day, but lift weights for 30min and input that into your app, it may say that since you burned 200 calories in that 30min you can...

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