Pedometer

Teliooo

HIya

I remembered I had a pedometer so today I have been wearing it. It shows how many cals you have burned and steps. What I was wonderful is, how much of those cals do you count as extra? I have my MFP setting at sedentary but I think it should probably be on lightly active but I thought I would just count steps instead and add them as walking and am going to get a HRM for when I exercise (on pay day). So do I count all the cals on the pedometer as extra or just a certain amount? I am a bit confused. I know that you have the amount of cals you would burn just by sleeping so are all of these movement ones extra or do I just count like half? I am very confused.

Thanks

manorexicmarshmallow

bump, so I can see the answer

Wuggums

I think it depends....If I'm walking for exercise - like my morning dog walk or a walk on the treadmill, I'll log all of it as exercise. But, if it's my normal walking around during the day (to and from the bus stop to the office, from the parking lot to the store, around the mall, etc.), I don't log any of it - but that's just me. You can also calculate the number of calories you burn without exercise. I calculated my BMR, then divided that by 24 to get the calories i normally burn per hour without exercise. For me, it works out to about 60 calories per hour. You can calculate your BMR calories for the time period, then subtract that from the calories shown on your pedometer, to get the extra. So many different ways to handle it, who knows if any of them is 100% "right".

manorexicmarshmallow

Perhaps you could have a "normal day" where you monitor how many steps and calories you have on your pedometer on an average day, and then from there on, on future days just add any extra steps/calories to your exercise journal.