7,200 calories burned in a day?!

datsundriver87

i had a body media for about 6 months and on a normal day of work it said I would burn roughly 6500 calories or so with about 30,000 steps. I always felt this was really high so I just switched to a Fitbit hr, two days into work first day was 6700 calories and yesterday was 7200 calories with 37,000 steps. I work for a moving company and pretty much run or at least walk from 8 am to about 6 so it's possible this is correct, just seems unrealistic to be burning that many calories

IsaackGMOON

Are you wearing it for the whole day?

MKEgal

Sounds like you have a very physical job, so it's entirely possible that the estimates are correct.
You're walking, carrying heavy things, climbing stairs, etc. right?

mkakids

If your moving furniture and boxes from 8-5 every day, its entirely possible to be burning that many calories.

WhatMeRunning

I just logged 35,000 steps on a 16 mile run burning over 3200 calories in just thosr few hours of running. So for an active full day like that it may very well be right.

corryigo

35000 steps is a ton of steps, so yes absolutely if the steps and your stride is accurate the calories will be close.

Ironmaiden4life

Both those company's trackers have been tested and rate very well on accuracy. For the activity you've described it sounds about right.

BRB..... Switching jobs for epic burn

999tigger

If its correct and I dont use a counter then the weight should be dropping off, way to go and I bet soon you will be strugling to eat enough (jealous).

Actually how much do you weigh? 720 calories an hour continuous is pretty impressive, so am more cautious. You will be able to tell vyby results .

besee_2000

I know a guy that does a similar job. Despite his love of beer and mid-western foods he is pretty thin. This would explain it! I need to hide a pedometer on him because now I'm super curious.

datsundriver87

Thanks everyone for the replies, I've done this for 10 years and always been 270-280 but realized I drank a minimum of a 6 pack of soda a day plus at least two fast food meals a day, down 65 pounds in 6 months. The issue seems to be the two or three days a week that I drive and don't burn many calories that I was still eating like crap. I guess there is an upside to having a very physical job haha

iheartinsanity

I LOVED my bodymedia when I had it (hated paying for the subscription though), and was my thinnest since I was always motivated to move more when I seen my stats. Just stay active like you do, and keep at it!

tshuk00

Unless you're consuming over 9200 calories per day, you would be losing weight at an alarming weight. Those "fitness trackers" are notorious for not being accurate. The most accurate way to track your burned calories is using a heart rate monitor.

Let me put it this way, a person who weighs 210 lbs would burn about 3500 calories running an entire marathon. While you do have a physical job, use that to put some perspective on how skewed those number readings you are getting are.

You described what you used to drink and eat, and while that IS a lot of calories, if you were really burning 6500-7200 calories per day, you would still be losing weight. Guesstimate that an average fast food meal is about 1000 calories and a 6 pack of soda at 150 calories per can is 900 calories, you're still hovering around 3000 calories per day. You need a 500 calorie a day deficit from your TDEE in order to lose 1lb per week.

What you eat is much more important for weight loss than activity level. You can't outrun the calories you eat.

Mr_Knight

That's more than a typical day racing the Tour de France. You'd have to be at an elite level of fitness to burn that much.

30,000 steps of walking won't even get you close - at your size it's about 25-30 steps/calorie.

glevinso

7000ish is about what I burn over the course of a full Ironman race...

datsundriver87

I may have mislead with my original statement, I'm not burning 6500-7000 calories every day, I would say an average week for me consists of two-three days of those numbers, two to three days of between 3500-5000 calories and two days of little to no activity at all. Some weeks are 5 days of running 10 hours a day with heavy furniture up stairs, others are 5 days of sitting in s truck all day. I have done the math and I would easily average 5000-6000 calories a day at least of intake for the last 10 years. I'm also including my daily burn without exercise in the 7200 not 7200 calories burned in 10 hours. I'm sure the numbers may be somewhat off but as consistent as they have been I would say they are within reason

tshuk00

They're not within reason and that's what we're trying to tell you at the end of the thread. Unless you are pushing yourself to the level that someone doing a full Ironman race is, you're just not burning that many calories in a day, let alone multiple times a week. You're likely not estimating your food correctly either.

There are a lot of people that shift their daily calorie goals because they have very heavy activity level certain days and little to none others. Many powerlifters do this. They eat big on their lifting days and not so big on their rest days. That would probably be to your benefit considering how hard your job is on the "active" days, but you should look into another way to estimate your needed intake and then adjust your calorie intake accordingly and over time adjust the numbers up and down as needed instead of relying on notoriously inaccurate "fitness counters".

Mr_Knight

datsundriver87 wrote: »

I'm also including my daily burn without exercise in the 7200 not 7200 calories burned in 10 hours.

You're not burning that much.

In reality, not even close to that much.

datsundriver87

By no means am I saying I am right and that I am for sure burning that many calories, but I also know that my job IS 100 percent the most physical job out there, I have watched person trainers and military not be able to do my job at the level I do it. (10 years of experience and training is the only reason I am able to). I sprint consistently and carry between 35-150 pound items for 10 hours so I don't feel like it is reasonable to compare it to "25-30 steps per calorie". When my weekly deficit is 9000 calories and I loose 2 pounds that week... I say it's within reason.

999tigger

How much do you weigh now OP?
If youve been doing this job for the last ten years, then why is it only in the last 6 you have been losing? Why did you put weight on in the first place? Were you eating humongous amounts? Te fact you are now caliming 7200 without exercise i.e at a rate of over 720 calories per hour for ten hours would be remarkable.

datsundriver87

It hasn't been 720 per hour for 10 hours," 7200 "includes about 2000 tde and is not an average day. I'm 213 now and yes for the last 10 years I was eating about as unhealthy as you can. Normal day was McDonald's frappe and two sausage my griddles for breakfast, double quarter pounder meal or similar for lunch plus a few refills of soda, and a large Mexican plate for dinner not including soda or energy drinks thruout the day or candy bar snacks

999tigger

wouldnt that be 10/24x2000 for the deduction. Not sure what you wnat you asked if it was accurate or not thinking it was dubious, some people have now come on and pointed out it may not be and now you wnat it to be accurate? If you are satisfied you are burning that much, then why be bothered? What do you actually want? A few months ago there was a large thread on being able to burn 1000 calories from exercise per day. Apparently your burning more than a Tour de France rider.

datsundriver87

I don't know that it's 100 percent accurate and even I have said a few times I feel like 7200 calories in a day could be high, but from of the replies I feel like some people are saying I'm only burning 1,200 calories in 10 hours of my job, as I've said Multiple times I don't have faith that it's pure accurate but I have seen the proof that it is at least somewhere in the correct range and I am still consistently losing weight so I am happy. I was wondering more if 7200 is something people would say is possible or if I'm closer to 62-6500. I'll know In a week or two as I weigh weekly and I will be tracking the deficit very closely

datsundriver87

I'm not trying to cause problems or get people upset that wasn't my intention at all. My calorie burn is all over the place, today I will prolly only burn 3200 or so if that, Monday and Tuesday I'm guessing will be in the 4500-5000 range and Wednesday Thursday will be huge numbers again. That's how I'm not dropping 10 pounds a week. Next week may be 5 days of 3200 calories.

rbiss

It's probably going to be hard to estimate using a pedometer because you are also lifting. I would go with what your pedometer says for now and track accurately. Then, readjust your nutrition in about a month after you have had some time to average a couple weeks. Definitely eat more food on the days with the higher burn numbers so you don't binge. I would believe the higher numbers just based on what I burn hiking in a couple hours. Larger people can burn alot more.

MamaBirdBoss

Hmmm. When I do 25,000 steps, I hit 2200 calories......

But I don't weigh that much. 7200 would we awfully high, though. I'd just track calories and weight closely for a few weeks to see.

6200 I can see more.

KateKyi

I would average your weeks out. If you are sedatory for 1 week and physically active 2-3 days the next week. Add your calories for the 2 weeks and divide by 14. This is more likely to be more accurate than a daily check

FitPhillygirl

datsundriver87 wrote: »

I don't know that it's 100 percent accurate and even I have said a few times I feel like 7200 calories in a day could be high, but from of the replies I feel like some people are saying I'm only burning 1,200 calories in 10 hours of my job, as I've said Multiple times I don't have faith that it's pure accurate but I have seen the proof that it is at least somewhere in the correct range and I am still consistently losing weight so I am happy. I was wondering more if 7200 is something people would say is possible or if I'm closer to 62-6500. I'll know In a week or two as I weigh weekly and I will be tracking the deficit very closely

Sorry, but there is no way that you are even close to 62-6500 in a day. I work in a very large ER and easily walk 6 to 8 miles before the end of my shift. I don't even burn anywhere near that number of calories.

WaterBunnie

If 2 separate devices are giving you similar readings it's probably best to check by eating back your calories and seeing if your loss rate actually is your deficit over 3-4 weeks. If it is then you can be pretty certain it's right, if you're not losing at the rate you've set your diary for then work out the margin of error and deduct that as a percentage from the calories you allow yourself to eat back - problem solved! Most people even sportsmen are unable to sustain 10 hours of that kind of activity, the fact that it's strenuous and continuous must mean you're very fit. You'll know by your appetite if you're not eating enough to cover it. The Tour De France comparison is probably pointless because he's probably going to be lighter and so fit that he burns less per hour because his body will have become more efficient at handling the same small range of movements. Cycling is also not weight bearing, I burn half the amount cycling than I do walking! Walking/running with heavy loads has got to really torch the calories.

datsundriver87

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Eileen_S wrote: »

datsundriver87 wrote: »

I don't know that it's 100 percent accurate and even I have said a few times I feel like 7200 calories in a day could be high, but from of the replies I feel like some people are saying I'm only burning 1,200 calories in 10 hours of my job, as I've said Multiple times I don't have faith that it's pure accurate but I have seen the proof that it is at least somewhere in the correct range and I am still consistently losing weight so I am happy. I was wondering more if 7200 is something people would say is possible or if I'm closer to 62-6500. I'll know In a week or two as I weigh weekly and I will be tracking the deficit very closely

Sorry, but there is no way that you are even close to 62-6500 in a day. I work in a very large ER and easily walk 6 to 8 miles before the end of my shift. I don't even burn anywhere near that number of calories.

By no means am I saying I work harder or comparing us at all, but just for arguments sake I have used my iPhone's gps, polar ft7, and the Fitbit for a week and can pretty consistently log 13-15 miles a day on the days I load and unload, yesterday was 17.2 miles on the Fitbit I did not have my phone in my pocket to cross check it thou.

FitPhillygirl

datsundriver87 wrote: »

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Eileen_S wrote: »

datsundriver87 wrote: »

I don't know that it's 100 percent accurate and even I have said a few times I feel like 7200 calories in a day could be high, but from of the replies I feel like some people are saying I'm only burning 1,200 calories in 10 hours of my job, as I've said Multiple times I don't have faith that it's pure accurate but I have seen the proof that it is at least somewhere in the correct range and I am still consistently losing weight so I am happy. I was wondering more if 7200 is something people would say is possible or if I'm closer to 62-6500. I'll know In a week or two as I weigh weekly and I will be tracking the deficit very closely

Sorry, but there is no way that you are even close to 62-6500 in a day. I work in a very large ER and easily walk 6 to 8 miles before the end of my shift. I don't even burn anywhere near that number of calories.

By no means am I saying I work harder or comparing us at all, but just for arguments sake I have used my iPhone's gps, polar ft7, and the Fitbit for a week and can pretty consistently log 13-15 miles a day on the days I load and unload, yesterday was 17.2 miles on the Fitbit I did not have my phone in my pocket to cross check it thou.

I used my iPhone 6 Plus before I got my Vivofit 2 and even though it has GPS I can definitely say from counting my own steps taken for 1 mile, that my iPhone was over tracking and not accurate. I also do HIIT for an hour 3 days a week and run along with weightlifting during the week on days that I work and I still don't come close to that amount of calories burned. However, this is just me, not you.

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