[Newbie] Calories burned per day, and HRM/calorie watches

Hi all,

New to MFP and fitness in general and have some questions that I hope you may be able to help with.

First question is regarding the calories burned each day. I recently purchased the Suunto M1 HRM/calories tracking watch (with chest strap), interested in seeing roughly how many calories I burned per day just going about my daily business, though I've read the accuracy is rather questionable....anyway, I wondered if, say, you looked down at your watch and it reads 250 calories, are those calories to eat or just for living on and we should only be using the calories burned from workouts and exercise alone?

Next question is about the Suunto's fitness level option, I'm unsure which category I fit into. To make it easier, there is a user guide online explaining in more detail about each fitness level which I'll quote here..

"5.1 Estimating your fitness level
To get guidance during exercise, you need to estimate your current fitness
level in the initial settings.
Select one of the following options:
●
very poor
: you prefer using the elevator or driving to walking, or sometimes
walk for pleasure, and occasionally exercise sufficiently to cause heavy
breathing or perspiration.
10
●
poor
: you exercise regularly 10 to 60 minutes per week in recreation or
work requiring modest physical activity, such as golf, horseback riding,
calisthenics, gymnastics, table tennis, bowling, weight lifting, or yard work.
●
fair
: you run less than one mile (1.6 km) per week or spend less than 30 min
per week in comparable physical activity.
●
good
: you run 1 to 5 miles (1.6 - 8 km) per week or spend 30 to 60 min per
week in comparable physical activity.
●
very good
: you run 5 to 10 miles (8 - 16 km) per week or spend 1 to 3 hours
per week in comparable physical activity.
●
excellent
: you run over 10 miles (16 km) per week or spend over 3 hours
per week in comparable physical activity."

My method of cardio is a treadmill. I walk 1.60k/1 mile (speed 5k) 3 times a day for 20 minutes, 7 days a week. I use the hula hoop and do some strength training too but not sure how to go about inputting that into MFP just yet. Giving the descriptions, I think it wants me to go with the "excellent" option, but the wording they use is "run over 10 miles per week", whereas I am only walking at a fast pace over 10 miles per week..

Lastly, and my apologies for the lengthy post!, my watch says I burnt 208 calories on one of these 20 minute (1.60k) walks on the treadmill. I'm 29, 5' 2", female, 141lbs. These devices aren't going to be 100%, but how far off to do rekon this number on the watch is?

Thanks in advance for the help!