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jaz050465
jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
edited January 4 in Fitness and Exercise
Instead of buying a Fitbit I want to manually add the calories burnt from my accelerometer pedometer. I don't think I should add this to my TDEE or my BMR as one will be too many and not enough.

Any advice please.

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  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Can anyone help?
  • therealangd
    therealangd Posts: 1,861 Member
    Take your BMR x 1.2 for sedentary and then add in your pedometer calories.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Just wasn't sure if the 'sedentary' value includes SOME of the steps that my pedometer counts. Just sedentary mean 'getting up and sitting in the couch all day?'
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Sedentary means someone who works a desk job, isn't physically moving, lifting things all day. It doesn't mean laying on the couch watching TV so just walking around during the day shouldn't be counted as exercise.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    But how then do I know what calories intake should be my basic level, if I'm going to add in ALL the calories shown up by my pedometer.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    How does Fitbit do this?
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