Calories in vs. calories out and Macro App

[goldprospector]

I got a calorie counting, Macro app, that keeps up an exercise log. It's pretty cool and it sure beats doing all this stuff on paper like I used to.
Anyway, trying to maintain my current weight at 245 and leaning down more, My caloric intake should be between 3100 and 3300, (depending on which calculator used)

I ate 3400 cals yesterday with a macro break down of 46%pt/42%carbs/12%fat, BUT with my workout and about 5 hours of felling trees and cutting up firewood, my new little app told me I was in a 4900 calorie deficit.

Now that really sucked!

 

[Eman]

This doesn't sound correct... If I'm understanding you correctly, your app was telling you that you needed around 8500 calories yesterday just to maintain your bodyweight. I don't think so.

I think you're doubling up on your TDEE by accident. Don't worry about calculating your fault expenditure each day with exercise. Assume that you need 3200 calories each day as a baseline to maintain your weight.

 

[goldprospector]

Yeah, TDEE says roughly 3200. But this app counts work, and workouts (if you log them, which I did).

So technically it was saying that I expended that many calories. I am just using it to track calories and macros. Don't really care about calories out, but I just thought it was funny when it told me I was at a 5000 calorie deficit. I just thought things had changed since I was doing it on paper.
I am 51 years old and I am far from being technologically savvy. Heck I just upgraded from a flip phone to a smart phone just a couple months ago.