Eating calories from steps walked

I typically don't eat the calories from my synced steps. I listed myself as moderately active when I signed up for MFP, and I believe that there is an allowance of extra calories for that distinction.

I had to get up over my 'norm' to see loss. As I suspected I was already at about 10k daily with 'lifestyle' steps... I pushed my goal to 100k a week with the last 30k being purposeful hill walks and trail hikes & ate some of that back. It has worked well for me.

I sync mine and regularly eat them back, loosing 2lb a week on 1220 Cals a day plus what ever my steps give me which is usually 200-300

Maybe that 'don't eat any exercise calories back' advice works for very obese people doing very gentle workouts, but I wouldn't be able to do the kinds of workouts I do if I didn't eat some of those calories back!
Came back to edit: that sounds too harsh! What I mean is this... MFP is set up for you to eat back exercise calories to some degree. Sadly, calorie burns assigned can be too high, so it is prudent not to eat all of them back. But if you are doing something very strenuous, say a three or four hour hike, or even habitual long walks at a 15 minute mile pace or better, etc, you WILL need to eat in a way that backfills some of that deficit or your performance can suffer, you might begin to feel either lethargic or antsy, and you are more apt to break in an unscheduled binge-y way to close that gaping deficit.
Everybody is a little different. The overall accuracy of all your other logging comes in to play too. Start by eating some of those calories. If you feel it slows your weight loss, back off a little. If you still feel crazy hungry (true hungry, not bored hungry) try adding in a few more. The scale will show true deficit eating is working over time. When I started in August 500 calorie daily deficits were easy and effective. Now that I'm about 20 lbs from my goal 250 calorie daily deficits are more realistic and comfortable. I'm okay with the slower pace. I'm going to be doing some form of this forever, right? I also take refeed breaks where I eat at maintenance just to practice what that feels like. It's amazing how good you can feel after a week or two of that once you get over feeling 'naughty.'
Fitness and weight loss are two different but synergistic goals. I practice fitness religiously. I take mini breaks from weight loss when I begin to feel ground down, out of energy and overly negative.

I eat most of my step calories back, usually not all, but most of them. I'm set as sedentary and have my Fitbit synced. During the work week, I don't usually get many step calories, but I get a good amount on the weekend and use them to eat and drink well on the weekend!

My only exercise is walking, averaging about 8,000 steps a day, usually more on weekends.

And of course that walking burns calories, compared to being completely sedentary.

I've set my activity level to sedentary and I sync my Fitbit to MFP and I eat most of my calories back, and I've been losing fine. I'm a 40 year old woman, 166cm, currently 76kg.

@synacious I'm the same... 20k steps + a workout adds up to A LOT of activity!

I have a substantial amount to lose and set my activity level to lightly active. I'm on my feet at work 40-50 hours a week running around a restaurant. I'm more than likely at least active instead. But I didn't want to take any chances on over estimating. I have been considering a fitbit but for now just use the Pacer pedometer app. MFP gives me 1970 calories at my current weight to lose 2ppw. I linked the Pacer app and turned on negative calorie adjustment. I like seeing the calories it adds but rarely eat them back. Occasionally I'll eat back a couple hundred. I lose between 2.2-4 pounds on average a week.

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