Counting calories burned

cts051203
cts051203 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 17 in Fitness and Exercise
Good Morning. Everyone! So...I work in the medical field and I walk...a lot! For a while I was counting my steps and the calories burned. Recently I read an article that say you do not count these as calories burned but as a baseline for how many calories you should take in when considering weight loss as the lifestyle variable. How true is this? I am also looking for some motivational and accountability friends. Please add me

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    activity at work should be counted within your activity level
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    The truth is it doesn't matter. You can count them as part of your activity level, or you can count them as something extra; what both of those approaches have in common is counting them.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    cts051203 wrote: »
    Good Morning. Everyone! So...I work in the medical field and I walk...a lot! For a while I was counting my steps and the calories burned. Recently I read an article that say you do not count these as calories burned but as a baseline for how many calories you should take in when considering weight loss as the lifestyle variable. How true is this? I am also looking for some motivational and accountability friends. Please add me

    I think what they're saying is that this is a normal daily thing and that you should include that activity in your activity level and I would intend to agree with that. For example, a sedentary activity level is going to account for up to about 3,000 steps...and so on and so forth. If you counted those steps and logged them and got additional calories, you'd be double dipping.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    If you don't put them into your basic activity level, and then count them, then you're not double dipping.
  • nichell88
    nichell88 Posts: 364 Member
    So I understand what they are saying, and I wouldnt count this as calories burned. I would use this as your baseline of calories burned throughout the day and to calculate your bmr. I would count extra things like going to the gym or playing a sport
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    nichell88 wrote: »
    So I understand what they are saying, and I wouldnt count this as calories burned. I would use this as your baseline of calories burned throughout the day and to calculate your bmr. I would count extra things like going to the gym or playing a sport

    TDEE, not BMR. BMR is what your body burns just to live.

    OP, this should be a part of your activity level, unless you have an activity tracker that you can connect and sync to MFP.
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