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help! I'm unsure what to do

chrissykay64
chrissykay64 Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I want to log my exercise in but I don't know how you figure out the calories burned. For example I just walked 25 minutes for a total of a mile.

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  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    That's just under 2.5 miles/hour. There's a setting for that in the Exercise database, I think. Just select it, add your time and it'll figure out the calories. Word of warning: MFP is thought to estimate high for calories burned. You may want to only eat back about half of the stated calories.
  • critwitt
    critwitt Posts: 5 Member
    I did the same thing! Good for us! I'm still new to the site and still trying to figure everything out, but what I did was in the exercise box, keyword search "walk" and it brought up walking fast, walking leisurely, walking slow. That seemed to work for me. Good luck to you!
  • chrissykay64
    chrissykay64 Posts: 8 Member
    It's telling me I have to put the calories burned. It won't calculate for me.
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