Tracking chores while wearing a pedometer

ldangelina

I have a FitBit Blaze that tracks my steps; I assume it’s accurate. If it is, then I need to move a LOT more than I do.

Will tracking activities, like washing dishes or even cooking, falsify my calories burned? By tracking movements that are not traditional exercises am I over-counting burned calories?

cmriverside

Fitbit tracks all your activity. It's how you account for that in your eating that matters.

Here is the Fitbit Group https://media2.giphy.com/media/hAQKxS7pfRyY8/source.gif

Here is the FAQ that tells you how to set it up to work correctly with Myfitnesspal:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-amp-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1

nicsflyingcircus

Those things you're talking about are your day to day activity. Counting them as exercise would be "double dipping" calories.

I wear a Garmin pedometer and am starting to average close to 10k steps a day. I don't log any of my walking as exercise let alone other day to day activity, because it already counts as movement.