how to log calories from work?

Dawn410
Dawn410 Posts: 120 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
I am working 16 hours todayou and i have walked over 30000 steps during my shift. I don't usually add work steps into my exercise, but I feel like today I should get some credit for all this movement!

how should I log it?

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  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    as excercise
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    As walking.
  • Dawn410
    Dawn410 Posts: 120 Member
    would you log all of it? log it as miles?
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Dawn410 wrote: »
    I am working 16 hours todayou and i have walked over 30000 steps during my shift. I don't usually add work steps into my exercise, but I feel like today I should get some credit for all this movement!

    how should I log it?

    Can you link what your using to track steps to MFP?
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    edited June 2015
    shadow2soul wrote: »
    Dawn410 wrote: »
    I am working 16 hours todayou and i have walked over 30000 steps during my shift. I don't usually add work steps into my exercise, but I feel like today I should get some credit for all this movement!

    how should I log it?

    Can you link what your using to track steps to MFP?

    ^This.

    Or if this is a common thing and you aren't able/don't want to link whatever device/app you are using, then change your settings to active (if you don't have it set to that already).

    And I say active, not lightly active because lol, 30K steps is not lightly active at all. :bigsmile:
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    yes when it is really extra i would log it as walking but only eat a max of 50% of the calories back.
    But i would want to register it for the data so yes i would log it.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Dawn410 wrote: »
    would you log all of it? log it as miles?

    No, I personally wouldn't as it's normal daily activity. Still if you feel you did "extra", log it. What are you using to count your steps?
  • honkytonks85
    honkytonks85 Posts: 669 Member
    have you set your activity level to lightly active?
  • Dawn410
    Dawn410 Posts: 120 Member
    today I am using my phones pedometer to track my steps. I don't want to up my activity status because most days I do not work grueling 16 hours shifts.

    I logged half half the activity as exercise at a liesurely pace.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Dawn410 wrote: »
    today I am using my phones pedometer to track my steps. I don't want to up my activity status because most days I do not work grueling 16 hours shifts.

    I logged half half the activity as exercise at a liesurely pace.

    In the MFP app, if it shows as an option to use to count steps, it will automatically adjust your calories for you when you have active days like this.
  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    I used a couple of different online formulas to estimate how many calories I might burn with walking (using my weight/height, speed, steps per km etc). I came up with an estimate for calories per 1000 steps, then cut it a bit to account for possible overestimation. I then entered it as a custom exercise where 1 minute logged equals 1000 steps. Then however many thousand steps I've walked, I log that many minutes. I usually only log steps if I'm over 5000 though, but since I'm on holiday at the moment I'm logging them all because I need the extra, haha. It ends up being around 130 extra calories per 10000 steps (I'm 5'4 and around 60kgs), which is a fairly conservative estimate.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    Dawn410 wrote: »
    I am working 16 hours todayou and i have walked over 30000 steps during my shift. I don't usually add work steps into my exercise, but I feel like today I should get some credit for all this movement!

    how should I log it?

    I wouldn't, since it's part of your work day.
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