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Step calories

ShirleyAnn710
ShirleyAnn710 Posts: 1 Member
in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions
Hi, this must be obvious.... But do calories burned in steps count towards exercise calories? My step tracker doesn't sync with my fitness pal (very old Huawei) but I wondered if I could add the step calories under exercise. Thoughts?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    It depends. Your activity level is going to account for a certain amount of general movement so some steps would already be accounted for. Even if you're set to sedentary, that activity level will account for roughly 3K-5K steps.

    If these steps are consistently part of your daily movement I would just adjust your activity level accordingly. For example, with a daily walk and my other daily movement I pretty consistently get around 10K steps daily which is on the high end of lightly active...so I would just set my activity level to lightly active and wouldn't bother logging anything for exercise.

    If part of your step count is a daily walk and perhaps you aren't particularly consistent with it, I would just log that walk...and I'd log it by miles, not steps...

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