700 calories burned without a workout?

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  • erin4455
    erin4455 Posts: 135
    So long as you have both MFP and Fitbit set to the same activity level you are good to go.
    I sub at a preK and I know when I work I get a pretty good adjustment and on days I go to the grocery store I earn at least 3 or 400 cals just from walking aorund getting groceries! (Mine is set to sedentary on both though so I get extra cals for anything over regular activity)

    I find it hard to believe that one can burn 300/400 calories while out shopping. That is how much I burn while running 30 min using a HRM !! Are these FItbits accurate. ??? If they are then I am heading to the mall daily and will be fitting in those skinny jeans real soon

    I go shopping all the time...and given that, I honestly don't know what I'm doing here trying to lose 50 lbs. My shopping alone should have kept me in check. Add calories burned at work and I should be underweight. :)
  • GauchoMark
    GauchoMark Posts: 1,804 Member
    So long as you have both MFP and Fitbit set to the same activity level you are good to go.
    I sub at a preK and I know when I work I get a pretty good adjustment and on days I go to the grocery store I earn at least 3 or 400 cals just from walking aorund getting groceries! (Mine is set to sedentary on both though so I get extra cals for anything over regular activity)

    I find it hard to believe that one can burn 300/400 calories while out shopping. That is how much I burn while running 30 min using a HRM !! Are these FItbits accurate. ??? If they are then I am heading to the mall daily and will be fitting in those skinny jeans real soon

    I have data to prove it... do you?

    besides, why is it so hard to fathom? Walking 2 mph for 1 hour for a 200 lb person is 255 calories... that is a fairly leisurely stroll.
  • dietpepsi100
    dietpepsi100 Posts: 76 Member
    I go by my fitness pal reccomendations for calories intake. I NEVER eat my calories back. I set it to lose 2 ibs a week 10 months in and I have lost 108 pounds pretty close to an average of 2 pounds a week. I tried to figure out all the extra stuff and just got confused.
  • T1mH
    T1mH Posts: 568 Member
    When you have a lot to lose larger deficits are ok. When you get closer to goal or a healthy weight the right deficit becomes more important. To large of a deficit will cause your metabolism to slow down and your body to burn more muscle while trying to store fat. Then when you go back to normal eating your body is still in famine mode and tries to store fat which is one of the reasons many people yoyo diet because it's so much easier to put that weight back on then it was to take it off.

    Edit: every time you go thru this cycle you end up with less muscle and more fat. You do not lose fat with out losing some muscle. You can't build muscle in a calorie deficit. This is why body builders go thru bulk and cut phases.
  • honeylissabee
    honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
    So long as you have both MFP and Fitbit set to the same activity level you are good to go.
    I sub at a preK and I know when I work I get a pretty good adjustment and on days I go to the grocery store I earn at least 3 or 400 cals just from walking aorund getting groceries! (Mine is set to sedentary on both though so I get extra cals for anything over regular activity)

    I find it hard to believe that one can burn 300/400 calories while out shopping. That is how much I burn while running 30 min using a HRM !! Are these FItbits accurate. ??? If they are then I am heading to the mall daily and will be fitting in those skinny jeans real soon

    I have data to prove it... do you?

    besides, why is it so hard to fathom? Walking 2 mph for 1 hour for a 200 lb person is 255 calories... that is a fairly leisurely stroll.

    This is why I love the FitBit. Because little bursts of exercise really count towards my goals.

    On Monday, I took about 10,680 steps.

    What really baffles me though is that I might be able to eat over 2,000 calories in a day and actually lose a pound a week just based on my job and a workout a few times a week. Insane! Although, I may be still in that rut of thinking that anything over 1500 calories is too much. It just doesn't seem possible, I don't feel like I'm that active at all.
  • alexisu96
    alexisu96 Posts: 103 Member
    So long as you have both MFP and Fitbit set to the same activity level you are good to go.
    I sub at a preK and I know when I work I get a pretty good adjustment and on days I go to the grocery store I earn at least 3 or 400 cals just from walking aorund getting groceries! (Mine is set to sedentary on both though so I get extra cals for anything over regular activity)

    I find it hard to believe that one can burn 300/400 calories while out shopping. That is how much I burn while running 30 min using a HRM !! Are these FItbits accurate. ??? If they are then I am heading to the mall daily and will be fitting in those skinny jeans real soon

    I have data to prove it... do you?

    besides, why is it so hard to fathom? Walking 2 mph for 1 hour for a 200 lb person is 255 calories... that is a fairly leisurely stroll.

    Well I weigh 218 so maybe I should give up running and go for leisurly strolls. ??? It's not that I cant fathom, its just I question all these devices including mine at times. When I think back to what I ate before I started MFP and now reducing, counting, tracking eerything. I really do wonder what got me at 218. I run around, shop, workout, walk stairs, walk to,things. FIdBit users claim burning 3000 a day and that was me too but even bavk then I wasnt eating close to 3000. to be honest since joining I am more confused.
  • GauchoMark
    GauchoMark Posts: 1,804 Member
    Well I weigh 218 so maybe I should give up running and go for leisurly strolls. ??? It's not that I cant fathom, its just I question all these devices including mine at times. When I think back to what I ate before I started MFP and now reducing, counting, tracking eerything. I really do wonder what got me at 218. I run around, shop, workout, walk stairs, walk to,things. FIdBit users claim burning 3000 a day and that was me too but even bavk then I wasnt eating close to 3000. to be honest since joining I am more confused.

    Burning calories from walking versus running is not that different if you look at it from a distance perspective instead of a time issue. How fast you get there has a relatively small change in the amount of calories burned versus how far you traveled.

    If you walk 2 miles in 1 hour a 200 lb person burns 255 calories.
    If you RUN 2 miles in 20 minutes a 200 lb person burns 303 calories.

    Not a big difference, so yes switch to walking if you hate running.
  • sandobr1
    sandobr1 Posts: 319 Member
    Mark to read again later, good info here, thanks for sharing.
  • cld111
    cld111 Posts: 300 Member
    Saving to read through again later.
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    So long as you have both MFP and Fitbit set to the same activity level you are good to go.
    I sub at a preK and I know when I work I get a pretty good adjustment and on days I go to the grocery store I earn at least 3 or 400 cals just from walking aorund getting groceries! (Mine is set to sedentary on both though so I get extra cals for anything over regular activity)

    I find it hard to believe that one can burn 300/400 calories while out shopping. That is how much I burn while running 30 min using a HRM !! Are these FItbits accurate. ??? If they are then I am heading to the mall daily and will be fitting in those skinny jeans real soon

    running and walking both use up roughly 100 calories per mile, so whether you burned 300 calories by running for 30 minutes, or walking for 60 minutes around the shops, it is still the same 300 calories.

    Somebody who walk 30 minutes every day would actually be creating more of a deficit than someone who runs 30 minutes twice a week, but I'll bet the runner feels more smug about their calories, and would frown at the walker eating back their calories.

    When setting their MFP settings people need to be honest, there is no point setting yourself as sedentary if you are runing around after kids all day, or walking your dog twice a day.

    At the end of the day, it's not the running, walking or shopping that loses the weight, it's the calorie defict.
    The walking, running, shopping etc can help create that defict, but unless you are eating less than you are burning through daily activity, you aren't going to lose anything.
  • honeylissabee
    honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
    So long as you have both MFP and Fitbit set to the same activity level you are good to go.
    I sub at a preK and I know when I work I get a pretty good adjustment and on days I go to the grocery store I earn at least 3 or 400 cals just from walking aorund getting groceries! (Mine is set to sedentary on both though so I get extra cals for anything over regular activity)

    I find it hard to believe that one can burn 300/400 calories while out shopping. That is how much I burn while running 30 min using a HRM !! Are these FItbits accurate. ??? If they are then I am heading to the mall daily and will be fitting in those skinny jeans real soon

    running and walking both use up roughly 100 calories per mile, so whether you burned 300 calories by running for 30 minutes, or walking for 60 minutes around the shops, it is still the same 300 calories.

    Somebody who walk 30 minutes every day would actually be creating more of a deficit than someone who runs 30 minutes twice a week, but I'll bet the runner feels more smug about their calories, and would frown at the walker eating back their calories.

    When setting their MFP settings people need to be honest, there is no point setting yourself as sedentary if you are runing around after kids all day, or walking your dog twice a day.

    At the end of the day, it's not the running, walking or shopping that loses the weight, it's the calorie defict.
    The walking, running, shopping etc can help create that defict, but unless you are eating less than you are burning through daily activity, you aren't going to lose anything.

    I don't think labeling my activity as "slightly active" versus "active" is necessarily being dishonest. I don't feel like I'm that active. I don't work up a sweat or anything by working out. I just pace around constantly.
  • fougamou
    fougamou Posts: 200 Member
    This is why I like the fitbit --- it appears that I am more active than I thought. Good information to know.
  • honeylissabee
    honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
    Ok, now I'm really confused.

    I went to work and then I went out to Target with my best friend. Even though I have my thing set up to active instead of lightly active. I still earned 619 exercise calories.

    Now, I am NOT a body builder. I don't work in construction. I work with two-year-olds. I spend about 10-15 minutes (in short 3 or so minute increments) dancing/jumping around, and I walk a LOT, but the idea of still burning 600 calories over an "active" day is INSANE.
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    Ok, now I'm really confused.

    I went to work and then I went out to Target with my best friend. Even though I have my thing set up to active instead of lightly active. I still earned 619 exercise calories.

    Now, I am NOT a body builder. I don't work in construction. I work with two-year-olds. I spend about 10-15 minutes (in short 3 or so minute increments) dancing/jumping around, and I walk a LOT, but the idea of still burning 600 calories over an "active" day is INSANE.

    When you look at your Home, Goals, what does MFP estimate you will burn in a day from daily activity?

    and what does your FB say you burnt?

    It may be worth checking your MFP settings (height, weight etc) are correct, as one incorrect digit can make a difference.
  • honeylissabee
    honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
    Ok, now I'm really confused.

    I went to work and then I went out to Target with my best friend. Even though I have my thing set up to active instead of lightly active. I still earned 619 exercise calories.

    Now, I am NOT a body builder. I don't work in construction. I work with two-year-olds. I spend about 10-15 minutes (in short 3 or so minute increments) dancing/jumping around, and I walk a LOT, but the idea of still burning 600 calories over an "active" day is INSANE.

    When you look at your Home, Goals, what does MFP estimate you will burn in a day from daily activity?

    and what does your FB say you burnt?

    It may be worth checking your MFP settings (height, weight etc) are correct, as one incorrect digit can make a difference.

    Everything is correct on both. Mfp says I burn 2,360 calories a day. FitBit said yesterday I burned 2,975 calories. I can understand maybe 100 to 200 calories for the shopping after work, but I cannot fathom how I burned that many calories above an "active" job.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Everything is correct on both. Mfp says I burn 2,360 calories a day. FitBit said yesterday I burned 2,975 calories. I can understand maybe 100 to 200 calories for the shopping after work, but I cannot fathom how I burned that many calories above an "active" job.

    So MFP uses Mifflin BMR which for you is 2360 / 1.45 for Active = 1628.

    FitBit uses Harris BMR which could come up with a different base value they are going off of. Usually only 100-150 calories though I have seen bigger spreads.

    That BMR and estimated RMR are used for all your slow moving and non-moving time in the day. So even if half the day was that, should only be 50-75 calories.
    So if it's very different, that could effect it.

    But walking is based on your weight, so confirm FitBit weight is correct.

    You might also look through the FitBit log for yesterday as good example, and see if there are any elevated burn times when you were actually driving, or walking slowly with a shaky cart. FitBit is estimating steps by bouncing. Some get that while driving - so false steps, false burn, elevated TDEE.
  • ezwryder
    ezwryder Posts: 25
    i came back and made it simple... MFP gives me a number, i eat that number, if i go to the gym then i log it, if i dont, i dont.

    Boy I agree with that. I jumped on that bandwagon for a while but the only gadgets I use now are a food scale and my iPhone.
  • honeylissabee
    honeylissabee Posts: 217 Member
    I decided to do a test and set MFP to say that I'm "very active". I also had a slower day today. I didn't go out after work. I also spent my lunch break sitting, and I didn't bring my iPod to work, so there was no dancing around with the kids. Still, even on a slow day, my total burn at nearly 10pm is only a little more than 100 calories under what MFP says I burn each day, so perhaps I am very active after all.

    I am still going to set up negative calorie adjustments because I'm a lazy bum on the weekends, and I'm sticking to a 500 calorie deficit. Then, I'm pretty much going to set up my personal plan where I'll try to eat any exercise calories over 500 calories. (So, if I burn off 600 extra calories, I'll eat at least 100 of those calories a day). However, any exercise calories under 500 are optional. I can eat them or leave them depending on the occasion, my hunger, etc. That way, even though my goal is SET to lose 1 pound per week, I can safely lose 2 pounds in a week by burning off the second 500 calories through exercise rather than cutting it out from my diet.

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