Do you log your steps?

CarvedTones

I have a watch that doesn't sync, but I am okay with that because of what is working for me. I set my activity level to sedentary because I have an office job. I typically walk over 10000 steps though. One of my walks will usually be long at a brisk pace, like 5 miles at a 4+ mph pace. I use Map My Walk on my phone just for that kind of walking. I usually do some other fitness walking at a slightly slower pace and not as far. For example, yesterday I had almost 16000 steps. I logged about 9500 using MMW, which fed into mfp. My base is about 200 calories lower than mfp calculates. this sounds (and admittedly seems to me to be) rather inexact but my weight has been amazingly stable recently (I am in maintenance). Anyway, the point of all that is that if you use walking as a primary exercise, I think you should log the walking that is fitness walking but not all steps.

briscogun

My phone tracks steps and pushes to MFP but I don't get any calorie adjustment unless its over 10,000 or something like that so its nice to see if I was up and around or if a loafed too much but other than that...? Steps don't really factor into my fitness goals so I don't focus on them. I did a mile and a half nature trail walk last weekend and I tracked that in my app but that was more for kicks (and because I wanted to burn a few calories so I could eat a baked potato for dinner!)

Tacklewasher

Danp wrote: »

I have a very varied step count depending on how my day goes. Anywhere from 2000 steps to 15000+ steps.

The way I've approached it is to set my activity to sedentary and let the number of steps recorded by my android wear watch dictate my activity level that day. I then adjust my calorie intake accordingly.

Not sure if this is the smartest or wisest way to do it but it seems to be working for me so far.

I do the same, just a Gamin watch. I've played around in the past and bumped my setting to lightly active, but then MFP takes calories away. The net is the same, but I didn't like losing calories so I went back to sedentary so I get the little adds from activity. On days I don't run I can be under 2500 steps. So I've had days when I lose calories even though I'm set at sedentary. Usually these are busy days at work (month-end and the like) when I'm on the computer for 8 hours and barely break for lunch.