Confused with Apple steps calories

equidivine
equidivine Posts: 101 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi
Does anyone know how accurate the steps calories are for apple?
So iv walked 20,000 steps today and apparently that’s 200 calories burnt.
I walked 5 hours 10 miles total,
My map my walk says 800 calories burnt so a little confused on what I should be aiming for.

Do you guys add the calories burnt into your diet?

Thanks 😊

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,713 Member
    equidivine wrote: »
    Hi
    Does anyone know how accurate the steps calories are for apple?
    So iv walked 20,000 steps today and apparently that’s 200 calories burnt.
    I walked 5 hours 10 miles total,
    My map my walk says 800 calories burnt so a little confused on what I should be aiming for.

    Do you guys add the calories burnt into your diet?

    Thanks 😊

    For walking, I put the speed and time into this calculator, set the energy box on "net", and log that many calories.

    https://exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs

    That will produce a conservative estimate.

    If I had a lot of walking for my job or other daily routine stuff, I'd increase my MFP activity level to cover that, and just log walking that was intentional exercise.

    I ate all of my conservatively-estimated exercise calories all through weight loss, and for 7+ years since. After the first 4-6 weeks of loss, after which I could estimate my calorie needs more accurately using my own experience data (not a calculator or tracker), my weight loss/maintenance was quite predictable.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,768 Member
    edited September 2023
    With apple, for walks, I start and end an exercise on my Apple Watch.

    I use the Apple Watch Adjustment within MFP.

    My watch automatically posts the exercise to my MFP diary but then makes a deduction, based on the activity level I’ve set, so I don’t get credit twice.

    I get more calories to begin with, simply by virtue of choosing “highly active” as my activity level.

    Here’s how it looks when my exercises post. The minus figure is the Apple Watch adjustment.

    If you’re using your phone, you’re going to have to manually calculate and post the walks-as-exercise. That’s why I love a fitness tracker. It takes all the grunt work out of it.

    The “leisurely pace” is due to a sniffy dog. I’ve manually calculated he stops about every 220 feet on average for a good sniff. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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