Exercise calories

kathyallen72

Hi, I’m walking over 10,000 steps a day and MyFitnessPal only gives me back 6 calories? Is this correct.

csplatt

What do you have your activity level set to?

kathyallen72

Hi, it’s set on active, as I’m a cook and do a lot of walking throughout the day.

COGypsy

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

Active is usually identified by me as about 10,

csplatt

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

Thank you.

yirara

Nothing to add, other than congratulations on estimating your activity settings very, very well

Mandylou19912014

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

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