can i really be burning 2500 calories in a day!!
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innerfatty91 wrote: »Sounds reasonable to me.
But like others said it includes all calories burned, calories burned sleeping, beating your heart, breathing, digesting, thinking.
A large portion of your calories burned don't come from exercise or movement.
but why is 2000 calories deemed as the amount that women burn not including exercise?
Average woman
If you're taller, heavier, more active, exercise more you'll burn more. As you would if you have a higher musculature
Now personally I think 2500 might be a bit high .. but then I'm active, workout hard three times a week, have a decent musculature at 5'8 and 160lbs in maintenance .. and I burn on average 2300-24000 -
Try putting your stats into this calculator - http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator
imma gonna eat more
I thought I'd hit maintenance at around 2300 .. I might have another 200 per day in me
PS OP I use my fitbit and overlay with an HRM for specific workouts, I find it underestimates my TDEE so I generally eat 1500 calories over my MFP allowance each week0 -
there is a great website(http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned), you enter your height, weight, age, lifestyle.. etc.. it calculates your BMI (body mass indicator) compares where you are to where you should be, then tells you how many calories you burn per day, this is your BMR (basal metabolic rate) and what your nutritional needs are to maintain weight.. It is a real eye opener. this is great info to set your course for weight loss or maintenance.0
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lynnstrick01 wrote: »there is a great website(http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned), you enter your height, weight, age, lifestyle.. etc.. it calculates your BMI (body mass indicator) compares where you are to where you should be, then tells you how many calories you burn per day, this is your BMR (basal metabolic rate) and what your nutritional needs are to maintain weight.. It is a real eye opener. this is great info to set your course for weight loss or maintenance.
that's not bad, apart from the having to log additional exercise on a daily rather than weekly basis
again I need to eat more cookies it seems .. munch scarfle snarfle0 -
Hmmmm maybe I should get a fitbit. I'd be curious to see just how much I burn during my 2 hour footy training session.
It would be nice to know just how much I'm burning each day, though I'd get a little worried id get a bit obssesed and get carried away and overtrain
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I'm 46 and short and when I do a lot of walking throughout the day I can easily hit 1950-2000 calories. If I'm less active my TDEE is 1700-18000
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The number Fitbit gives you is dependent on height/weight/age so if you're tall yes you'll get a higher burn . My hubby gets 2800 on his sendentary days and on his usual work days (active job and walks a lot) he'll get 3500.
I'm petite at 5ft 2 and on my active days it gives me total of 2300 on less than active days 1800. I find it to be an accurate little device and its kept me right since I got it in 2013 0 -
RunRutheeRun wrote: »The number Fitbit gives you is dependent on height/weight/age so if you're tall yes you'll get a higher burn . My hubby gets 2800 on his sendentary days and on his usual work days (active job and walks a lot) he'll get 3500.
I'm petite at 5ft 2 and on my active days it gives me total of 2300 on less than active days 1800. I find it to be an accurate little device and its kept me right since I got it in 2013
it's still just an estimator .. it follows a specific formula .. one must always check what's happening with their actual body over time
for me it underestimates my TDEE . I've actually been advised to increase my height to make it adjust but I'm happier going in the red on food logging and keeping an eye on the numbers0 -
RunRutheeRun wrote: »The number Fitbit gives you is dependent on height/weight/age so if you're tall yes you'll get a higher burn . My hubby gets 2800 on his sendentary days and on his usual work days (active job and walks a lot) he'll get 3500.
I'm petite at 5ft 2 and on my active days it gives me total of 2300 on less than active days 1800. I find it to be an accurate little device and its kept me right since I got it in 2013
it's still just an estimator .. it follows a specific formula .. one must always check what's happening with their actual body over time
for me it underestimates my TDEE . I've actually been advised to increase my height to make it adjust but I'm happier going in the red on food logging and keeping an eye on the numbers
Agreed!!!!
A little brain power is needed to analyse the data sometimes. Maybe the burn is a little high or low, maybe the input is a little off. If the (bodyweight) scale is not going fast enough - or maybe faster than expected - you have to be ready to make adjustments.
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Everyone's different, but my FitBit is extremely accurate for me. I've had my metabolism tested professionally (participated in a University study) and my FitBit readings are very, very close.0
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I've also found the calorie burn from intentional exercise to be suspect.I had a fitbit charge hr for a while but got rid of it as it was way off of what Runkeeper or treadmills were showing for calorie burn
Was the Fitbit higher or lower than the treadmill?
Could the issue be that a Fitbit calorie burn is all inclusive, bmr+exercise.
While a treadmill or run keeper is just exercise?
I don't know, just seems odd to trust a treadmill etc over a Fitbit.
As an example, a few months ago I compared calories burned according to my treadmill and what my Fitbit showed. Keep in mind, I'm 5'8" 125 lbs. The treadmill showed just under 150 calories for 40 minutes of walking at an average speed of 3.3 mph with a slight incline. In that same time period, my Fitbit showed about 275 calories burned.
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According to my Fibit, I burned 1,097 cals yesterday running ten miles and taking over 20k steps. But that is VERY out of the norm for me.
Also Fitbit gives you your TDEE, the only way to figure out how many calories you burned through exercise comes from synching with the MFP app.0 -
My daily burn is 2800 cals! When I do NOTHING. I think how much you burn daily is dependent on your current weight and activity level, not JUST activity level.
Same here
When I'm losing weight, the rate seems to match up properly so I assume the numbers are at least close to correct0 -
Was the Fitbit higher or lower than the treadmill?
Could the issue be that a Fitbit calorie burn is all inclusive, bmr+exercise.
While a treadmill or run keeper is just exercise?
I don't know, just seems odd to trust a treadmill etc over a Fitbit.
The Fitbit was way out, quite a bit higher
The treadmills I use have an account sign in and I have my height/weight set up for it and it's usually a pretty close match on a 10km run for Runkeeper, never more than 150 cal out.
The fitbit was almost doubling what I normally got, it was only ever switched on for running and I setup the online dashboard to only show and use exercise.
A treadmill would be much more trustworthy than gps or fitbit because it's a constant calibrated machine free of outside influence, boring as hell, but constant.
Gps & activity trackers can all be affected by outside influences, headwind (not included), bad satellite tracking, extra bounce from rough ground or arm movement, various different reasons
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Well now I'm curious about my daily 'living' burn. I had always assumed it was something like 1600 since that's what MFP had told me to eat to maintain my weight. Putting my info in at the site posted earlier in this thread gave me a number of 1975 kcals/day.0
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I wouldn't say no if you're eating that much and not putting on weight. I can eat about 3800 calories a day and not gain weight.0
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I find my Fitbit to be fairly accurate, I used it when losing weight and am now maintaining eating all the calories it gives me.
For reference I'm 5'2, 121 lbs, age 41 and have a desk job but I average 14k steps a day. My average burn is 2200 cals.0 -
Remember the fitbit BMR is constantly running. To make it math simple, say your BMR is 2400 calories per day, or 100 calories per hour.
Your treadmill estimates 200 for one hour of walking, your fitbit shows 300 for the same period. It isn't that either is "off", it is simply interpreted differently.
The sync with MFP, only shows 200 of exercise.
Obviously, the actual numbers aren't that perfect, but the above is just for illustration. I use my fitbit calories, but don't add in any other exercise, and have my settings at sedentary.0 -
I used to think my fitbit was horribly inaccurate. I'm 5'1, 34 years old and at the time was 128lbs. The second day I had it it said I burned over 2500 calories. My average burn was 2300 to 2800 depending on how many steps I took.
I didn't believe it so I purposely ate 200 to 300 less than MFP told me to. And I did it for 8 weeks. During that period I lost 11.8lbs. Instead of 1lb per week like I intended to lose I was losing 1.45lb per week. So my deficit was closer to 750 than 500.
Now I'm 113lbs and my daily average is a little lower....more like 2100 to 2600. Average is around 2300.
I guess I'm just more active than I thought I was. I take 15000 to 25000 steps per day.0
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