Anyone add calories burned from total steps everyday

lakshva
lakshva Posts: 44 Member
edited November 30 in Health and Weight Loss
So I just started tracking number of steps taken everyday. But confused on whether I should add them separately as an exercise. Doesn't MFP already have that added in daily goal? I have set myself as sedentary.

Should I start adding steps if I go above 10k per day.

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  • thunder1982
    thunder1982 Posts: 280 Member
    What are you using to track steps? The device may sync with MFP. Sedentary would be less than 5,000 steps per day so if your device doesn't sync with MFP you can change your setting.
  • lakshva
    lakshva Posts: 44 Member
    I'm using an app called Pacer. It does sync with MFP but adds it as exercise even I take only 1k steps as part of normal steps a day
  • lemonychild
    lemonychild Posts: 654 Member
    So if it syncs then u don't need to add it again
  • mlinci
    mlinci Posts: 402 Member
    My Fitbit synching also starts adding calories from walking as soon as I'm past say 2,000 steps - but first in very small increments of about 10 calories here and there, so that's perfectly plausible to me. Compared to not moving at all, did I use another 50 calories if I walked about 2,000 steps? Of course, it makes perfect sense.

    I walked 16,000 steps yesterday, and while the estimate of about 800 extra calories could be a bit inflated, I don't think it's inflated by much (I've been eating most of my exercise calories back and losing according to predictions).
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I have my fitbit synced with mfp and let it do it's thing. Set and forget.
  • Cynsonya
    Cynsonya Posts: 668 Member
    I let Pacer sync and eat back about 50% of the calories it adds most days. I have MFP set to lightly active. I lose on track at 2ppw.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    I eat my walking calories. I have found the Fitbit calories pretty accurate overall. I watched it carefully at first & ended up making myself shorter than I really am on my stats to get it right where it needed to be.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    I eat my walking calories. I have found the Fitbit calories pretty accurate overall. I watched it carefully at first & ended up making myself shorter than I really am on my stats to get it right where it needed to be.

    Yep, I reduced my height and stride length just in case it was over estimating.
  • ronjsteele1
    ronjsteele1 Posts: 1,064 Member
    So, back to the original question because my Misfit does not synch with MFP (at least that I've figured out). I do not add back in for my steps taken but I also don't hit 10K steps everyday. I only add exercise steps if I actually go for a walk. I would rather not add them in and have that "buffer." So for those that don't sync with MFP, do you add your steps into MFP as "exercise?"
  • thunder1982
    thunder1982 Posts: 280 Member
    ronjsteele1 wrote: »
    So, back to the original question because my Misfit does not synch with MFP (at least that I've figured out). I do not add back in for my steps taken but I also don't hit 10K steps everyday. I only add exercise steps if I actually go for a walk. I would rather not add them in and have that "buffer." So for those that don't sync with MFP, do you add your steps into MFP as "exercise?"

    I would use my tracker to give me avg daily steps (probably using weekly figures) without purposeful exercise i.e. your actual walk and then make sure MFP is set up to the correct activity level based on that. So typically I do around 7,000 steps on a normal day so I am lightly active. The problem is if its not consistent week to week. I find my weekdays are pretty consistent but weekends can vary greater so days I might do 2000 steps others I can easily do 15,000.
  • TxTiffani
    TxTiffani Posts: 799 Member
    I went online and took off the calories added for steps per day. I have an office job so I'm pretty sedentary (other than my exercise hour which I do log but not as many cals as MFP gives) and didn't want to have extra calories here and there messing with my deficit.
  • lakshva
    lakshva Posts: 44 Member
    thunder1982 wrote: »
    ronjsteele1 wrote: »
    So, back to the original question because my Misfit does not synch with MFP (at least that I've figured out). I do not add back in for my steps taken but I also don't hit 10K steps everyday. I only add exercise steps if I actually go for a walk. I would rather not add them in and have that "buffer." So for those that don't sync with MFP, do you add your steps into MFP as "exercise?"

    I would use my tracker to give me avg daily steps (probably using weekly figures) without purposeful exercise i.e. your actual walk and then make sure MFP is set up to the correct activity level based on that. So typically I do around 7,000 steps on a normal day so I am lightly active. The problem is if its not consistent week to week. I find my weekdays are pretty consistent but weekends can vary greater so days I might do 2000 steps others I can easily do 15,000.

    That's exactly my problem. My steps vary a lot since my 'walking/ being active' habit is not set and I don't want to add extra calories which MFP has already accounted.
    I don't have a fitbit, so I guess I have to observe for a week or so and then adjust accordingly.
  • KorvapuustiPossu
    KorvapuustiPossu Posts: 434 Member
    In settings there is an option to allow negative adjustment...meaning if you do less steps in a day instead of extra calories you get a minus :D It's an option with FitBit at least since it estimates your TDEE based on your activity so far in the day and compares it to your TDEE set in MFP - that is why value changes during the day. So for instance if you decide to have a stay in bed and watch tv shows lazy sunday - it would give you a minus adjustment probably.
  • pandabear_
    pandabear_ Posts: 487 Member
    tiffanifair wrote: »
    I went online and took off the calories added for steps per day. I have an office job so I'm pretty sedentary (other than my exercise hour which I do log but not as many cals as MFP gives) and didn't want to have extra calories here and there messing with my deficit.

    Same here. MFP steps said I was burning a lot of calories by walking to work or to the train station, and so I could eat a lot of calories back, but it wasn't helping me lose weight. I was definitely going way over. Now I have turned it off, it feels much more accurate logging food and exercise myself.
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