Exercise calories

kathyallen72
kathyallen72 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, I’m walking over 10,000 steps a day and MyFitnessPal only gives me back 6 calories? Is this correct.

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  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,208 Member
    What do you have your activity level set to?
  • kathyallen72
    kathyallen72 Posts: 3 Member
    edited February 2023
    Hi, it’s set on active, as I’m a cook and do a lot of walking throughout the day.
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,367 Member
    That's what it is then. MFP assumes a certain number of steps etc. for your activity level. You only start getting extra calories when you go above and beyond the assumption. Sounds like the active setting expects you to take about 10,000 steps as part of your regular life. It only becomes "exercise" that gives you calories after that point.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,332 Member
    Active is usually identified by me as about 10,
  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,208 Member
    Then you have already been “given” calories for all those steps via the Active setting. You don’t want to be given them twice!
  • kathyallen72
    kathyallen72 Posts: 3 Member
    Thank you.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    Nothing to add, other than congratulations on estimating your activity settings very, very well <3
  • Mandylou19912014
    Mandylou19912014 Posts: 208 Member
    Hiya, on average 10k steps burns 500 calories. I wear a fit bit and it tracks my steps and calories burnt, I then manually enter it into my fitness pal
  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,208 Member
    Mandylou19912014 wrote: »
    Hiya, on average 10k steps burns 500 calories. I wear a fit bit and it tracks my steps and calories burnt, I then manually enter it into my fitness pal

    make sure your profile is set to sedentary if you are adding that manually! otherwise you are getting those “back” twice, which can negate your deficit

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