Is the calorie calculation bugged?

SovDarkwood
SovDarkwood Posts: 2 Member
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I input my goals, and the app determined i need to eat 2150 calories a day. However, i work in grocery, where i am the grocery lead assistant (assistant manager). I spend much, if not most of my day moving around boxes, pulling pallets, loading pallets, lifting crates of water, all of that. The first 2 hours or so, i am walking the store aisle by aisle, picking up product that didnt fit on the shelf, and either putting on the very top shelf (top stock), or loading a cart and moving it to the back (backstock) and placing it on backstock carts.
The closest exercise option i found to log this was "move household items/boxes". Apparently, just 140 minutes, or 2 hours and 20 minutes of this, burns about 2400 calories.
The issue is, before i started tracking my calories, i was gaining weight, and gaining fat.
How can this be If for the first 2 hours AT LEAST of my 8+ hour shift, i am burning more calories (allegedly) than i am supposed to consume?

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  • SovDarkwood
    SovDarkwood Posts: 2 Member
    To clarify, yes some items are small in number such as, 4 cans of soup. However, all things i take to the back are full cases of products. From a 10 pound case of cereal, to 40 pound case of sugar, or 50 pound bags of pet food (sometimes more than one bag at a time).
  • OpheliaCooter
    OpheliaCooter Posts: 1,635 Member
    I wouldn’t go by that calculation. Calculating calories is a guess at best anyway. I would just stick to the allotted calories and if you feel hungry after that, eat a reasonable snack or meal. The math will never be perfect.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    SovDarkwood wrote: »
    I input my goals, and the app determined i need to eat 2150 calories a day. However, i work in grocery, where i am the grocery lead assistant (assistant manager). I spend much, if not most of my day moving around boxes, pulling pallets, loading pallets, lifting crates of water, all of that. The first 2 hours or so, i am walking the store aisle by aisle, picking up product that didnt fit on the shelf, and either putting on the very top shelf (top stock), or loading a cart and moving it to the back (backstock) and placing it on backstock carts.
    The closest exercise option i found to log this was "move household items/boxes". Apparently, just 140 minutes, or 2 hours and 20 minutes of this, burns about 2400 calories.
    The issue is, before i started tracking my calories, i was gaining weight, and gaining fat.
    How can this be If for the first 2 hours AT LEAST of my 8+ hour shift, i am burning more calories (allegedly) than i am supposed to consume?

    You're job is not your exercise, it's your lifestyle. Don't log it separately, instead increase your activity level and have it accounted for in your daily calorie allotment.
  • pridesabtch
    pridesabtch Posts: 2,467 Member
    If the calories burned seem unreasonable they probably are. If what you are doing is part of your daily activity, it should be accounted for in your activity setting and not added exercise. I see exercise as a deliberate act above and beyond my daily routine. As you said you did this before and continued to gain. If you find after a few weeks you are losing weight faster than you'd planned, add in a couple hundred calories, but don't go overboard. Best of luck.

  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    1. How much were you eating before you started tracking? (there's no real way to know this, since definitionally you weren't keeping count, but it's probably more than 2150 calories per day if you were gaining.)
    2. How long have you been tracking, and are you tracking accurately? (using accurate database entries, weighing your food?)
    3. What activity level did you put in to the guided setup? It sounds like you should put Active, if you put something else run the setup again.

    Rerun the setup if your activity level was off, don't count your activity at work as exercise, eat the number of calories it gives you for a couple of months and see what happens to your weight.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    SovDarkwood wrote: »
    I input my goals, and the app determined i need to eat 2150 calories a day. However, i work in grocery, where i am the grocery lead assistant (assistant manager). I spend much, if not most of my day moving around boxes, pulling pallets, loading pallets, lifting crates of water, all of that. The first 2 hours or so, i am walking the store aisle by aisle, picking up product that didnt fit on the shelf, and either putting on the very top shelf (top stock), or loading a cart and moving it to the back (backstock) and placing it on backstock carts.
    The closest exercise option i found to log this was "move household items/boxes". Apparently, just 140 minutes, or 2 hours and 20 minutes of this, burns about 2400 calories.
    The issue is, before i started tracking my calories, i was gaining weight, and gaining fat.
    How can this be If for the first 2 hours AT LEAST of my 8+ hour shift, i am burning more calories (allegedly) than i am supposed to consume?

    Your activity level should be set to be commensurate with what you are doing on the daily for your job/occupation. It shouldn't be added as additional exercise. Adjust your activity level to appropriately reflect what you actually do and you will get more calories. Only log deliberate exercise.

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