Steps to Actity level?

srecupid
srecupid Posts: 660 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
I'm on vacation from work. I took 10k steps today but that was mostly walking to McDonald's twice once for coffee and once for lunch. Does that still count as lightly active? Been going overboard lately and am set at .5 pounds a week. Am I depriving myself?

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  • Owlfan88
    Owlfan88 Posts: 187 Member
    10,000 steps is generally more than lightly active. I have my settings at lightly active and I usually start getting extra calories from my Fitbit around 5000 steps.
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    The average stride length is 2.3ft which works out as approximately 2000 steps per mile. Working from this; you walked approximately 5 miles.

    Calories Burned = 0.3 x bodyweight x miles walked
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    5000-10000 steps is lightly active.
  • jazzyspender
    jazzyspender Posts: 49 Member
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    The average stride length is 2.3ft which works out as approximately 2000 steps per mile. Working from this; you walked approximately 5 miles.

    Calories Burned = 0.3 x bodyweight x miles walked

    Do you have a similar formula for miles ran?
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    jazzyspender wrote: »
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    The average stride length is 2.3ft which works out as approximately 2000 steps per mile. Working from this; you walked approximately 5 miles.

    Calories Burned = 0.3 x bodyweight x miles walked

    Do you have a similar formula for miles ran?

    I believe it's this:

    Calories Burned = 0.6 x bodyweight x miles

    Running should be added in to MFP as exercise, not accounted for in your daily activity level. That's intended to be your activity level before exercise.

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