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Do I Count The Calories Burned While At Work?

cue_chik
cue_chik Posts: 63 Member
edited January 22 in Fitness and Exercise
Hello everyone! Forgive me if this isn't the ideal place for this post, but it seemed like the right place to ask.

I recently bought a HRM that keeps track of calories burned, distance traveled a, and steps taken (as well as current HR) throughout the day. My question is: do I count those calories burned through a day of work and add those to my actual 'work out' calories burned or are those calories burned thru regular daily activities like working already figured into MFP ?

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  • lina1131
    lina1131 Posts: 2,246 Member
    No. Only log the calories that you burned during an actual workout.
  • Ayne6246
    Ayne6246 Posts: 37 Member
    Unless you have a job that is physically active, I would only count the calories burned during exercise. I just got an HRM a couole of weeks ago and found out that I was not loging enough calories for my exercise video (Richard Simmons Swesting to the Oldies 2). The monitor will be great incentive to get more of a workout! AT least it was for me!
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    No. Only log the calories that you burned during an actual workout.
    This. Your lifestyle (active, sendentary, etc) that you chose when you filled out your settings already accounts for that. Only log calories burned during intentional workouts.
  • cue_chik
    cue_chik Posts: 63 Member
    Thanks. I was assumng that they were already calculated by MFP to give me my daily caloric needs. Just wanted to be sure :)
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