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How many calories do I burn during a day at work?

AndrewWood97
AndrewWood97 Posts: 22 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I have my lifestyle on MFP set as "Sedentary", since the days i don't work, I usually am sedentary.

I was wondering how many calories I would burn during a day at work as a Walmart Cart Pusher?

I walk about 20,000-30,000 steps over a 5 hour period, with an average heart rate of 120-140.

I'm 5'7"
18 years old
Weight: 170.9

Or, should I not even include that in my exercise?

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  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    Don't include it in your exercise. How many days a week do you work? I'd say you could easily move that to lightly active or even active depending on how many days a week you're working.

    You'll gain a few extra calories from changing that setting as well.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    Don't include it in your exercise. How many days a week do you work? I'd say you could easily move that to lightly active or even active depending on how many days a week you're working.

    You'll gain a few extra calories from changing that setting as well.

  • AndrewWood97
    AndrewWood97 Posts: 22 Member
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    Don't include it in your exercise. How many days a week do you work? I'd say you could easily move that to lightly active or even active depending on how many days a week you're working.

    You'll gain a few extra calories from changing that setting as well.

    I work 3-4 days a week, 5 hour shifts.

  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Work is not exercise (although it may feel like it!) - up your activity level to reflect your active job.
  • AndrewWood97
    AndrewWood97 Posts: 22 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    Work is not exercise (although it may feel like it!) - up your activity level to reflect your active job.

    It certainly does feel like it! Lol, but the only reason i didn't want to up my activity level is because the days I'm off, i'm pretty sedentary for the most part. <8,000 steps. When I had a FITBIT Charge HR, it was telling me i burned about 6,000 calories during a shift, and MFP was telling me to eat nearly 4,500 calories. So I quit wearing it.
  • ScubaSteve1962
    ScubaSteve1962 Posts: 609 Member
    Anything more than 7000 steps is still active, that's the recommended steps by the CDC and WHO for an adult.
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    Can you change your activity level each day? So on work days, switch it to active, and on non-work days switch it to sedentary? I think that would give you better sense of how much to eat each day.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    AndrewWood97 wrote: »
    When I had a FITBIT Charge HR, it was telling me i burned about 6,000 calories during a shift, and MFP was telling me to eat nearly 4,500 calories. So I quit wearing it.

    Were you using the HR capabilities or just the step counter?


  • AndrewWood97
    AndrewWood97 Posts: 22 Member
    MeanderingMammal wrote: »
    AndrewWood97 wrote: »
    When I had a FITBIT Charge HR, it was telling me i burned about 6,000 calories during a shift, and MFP was telling me to eat nearly 4,500 calories. So I quit wearing it.

    Were you using the HR capabilities or just the step counter?


    I was using the HR Capabilities.

  • AndrewWood97
    AndrewWood97 Posts: 22 Member
    jaga13 wrote: »
    Can you change your activity level each day? So on work days, switch it to active, and on non-work days switch it to sedentary? I think that would give you better sense of how much to eat each day.

    I guess that's not a bad idea! Thanks! :)
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    AndrewWood97 wrote: »
    MeanderingMammal wrote: »
    AndrewWood97 wrote: »
    When I had a FITBIT Charge HR, it was telling me i burned about 6,000 calories during a shift, and MFP was telling me to eat nearly 4,500 calories. So I quit wearing it.

    Were you using the HR capabilities or just the step counter?


    I was using the HR Capabilities.

    Just use it as a step counter. Your HR isn't representative of calorie expenditure and you end up with a significant overestimate, as you've identified.

    What I've found since I started using a step counter is that I'm a bit more active than I thought I was, so setting MFP was still underestimating my intake needs.
  • staceylynn217
    staceylynn217 Posts: 1 Member
    http://www.t25calories.com/

    That should help!
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