Do I pay attention to the calories given from my fitbit?

karirenae

My fit, for example, right now says I have walked 2132 steps and MFP has given my 227 calories for that, it just seems really high, should I pay attention to those and eat those back? MFP is set to sedentary since I am on my butt at work all day!

heybales

So 1/2 of your weekday time (8 hr work, 8 hr sleep, 8 hr other) is deskjob.
What is the other 1/2 like?

What is the weekend like?

That all get averaged in.
So like many others, you could discover that despite a deskjob - you are not on average sedentary lifestyle outside of purposeful workouts.

So of all the possible answers as to how much extra active and calorie burn did you cause compared to sedentary - there is 1 answer that is most definitely wrong.
And that is 0.

So yes it counts. Depends if a good count though.

Now, that being said - usually people start getting adjustments to sedentary when steps get around 4000 - but it totally depends on the distance those steps caused, not steps by themselves. You could have good distance and get adj at 2K, could have short steps and get adj at 6K.

So either you had some very serious steps so far, walking to/from ect - and got some distance. so valid adjustment to account for.
Or your stride length is wrong and it thought you did a serious distance.

You can view your 24 hr graph of steps and calories and confirm no flakiness to either at times you know you weren't walking or burning more.

But yes - you do pay attention to the adjustment MFP gives based on what Fitbit reported - just tweak the Fitbit to get best info.

Like walk a known distance at average daily pace (not grocery store shuffle, not exercise level) and confirm the reported distance is right. Might seem slow walking 2mph, but that's likely in the middle.