20000 steps calories?

Are you are losing or gaining or maintaining over a period of time? Make adjustments. All the numbers of calorie intake or calorie burns are just estimates.

AndyKiu wrote: »

i'm mantaining/gaining.

i was just wondering how many kcal does the average person burns by walking 20k steps daily (some websites says around 1k cal)
or walking 1 hours at 4phm

Height, age, weight, amount of muscle, etc all effect the amount of calories you burn.

Are you eating the calories fitbit says?

Remember weight fluctuates. Most people have a 5 lb range (give or take a few) that their weight will fluctuate in when maintaining. Maybe start using an app to look at the trend of your weight so you can see exactly what it's doing.

Trend apps:
Happy Scale
Libra

how many calories the same amount of walking uses depends also on the speed and intensity - are you walking up hills fast? up and down stairs at a moderate pace? walking down hallways slowly? these can burn radically different amounts of calories.

@shadow2soul do you not focus on net calories? I know I asked this before but it always confuses me. Even If I eat at what mfp gives me after fitbit sends over exercise calories my net is low so should I keep my net above a certain amount or just focus on the mfp and fitbit numbers

AndyKiu wrote: »

hi, i have been wondering how many kcal i burn by walking 20k steps
i'm 6 feet and 170 pounds.

by using the iphone motion, Fitbit says that by walking 20-25k steps a day my daily intake should be around 3-4k (wich i found incredibly innacurate) meanwhile myfitness pal says 2900-3k

wich one is correct?
does walking at 4mph for one hours really burns around 300 kcal?

I hate fitness trackers just for these reasons.

If this is something you do daily, your body has adapted to this amount of work, it's your "normal". So I wouldn't eat these back, I wouldn't count this as exercise etc. Only account for actual exercise, like if you purposely go for a run/jog/ walk or go to the gym outside of what you normally do.

Be more concerned about the calories you're eating instead of the calories you're burning IMO.

I have lots of experience with Fitbits, and personally disregard their estimates for calories burned from activity.

I assume I burn about 50 calories per 1,000 steps, on average. There are obviously problems with this static number; heavier people burn more, steps running burn calories at a higher rate than walking, inclined walking burns more, etc. Averaged out over long periods of time and most situations, though, this number seems to work fine (I'm 28/M/160lbs/5'7).

So for 20,000 steps I would assume that's about 1,000 calories burned. It's probably not less than that, and if it's more then you'll just lose more weight than you thought.

I don't know about 1000 for 20,000 steps. Who knows. Maybe that's correct given your stats. It seems as though I can get (if I'm lucky) 50 calories per 2,000 steps (just daily activity). I do have an Apple Watch though. I regularly get between 17,000-27,000 steps. My active calorie burns for the day when I get about 25,000 steps (including 4-6 mile run counted in those steps) I may get an additional 1000 calories on top of my sedentary burn.

If I'm only walking about 25,000, I'm lucky if I get an additional 750 calories. It varies depending on stats. I'm 5'5 female and ~130 lbs.

I'm 5'3", 31 years old, and 112 pounds. I walk anywhere from 17,000 to 30,000 steps per day. Here's a screenshot of what my Fitbit Charge HR says:




This includes a 217 calorie cardio workout and two hour long walks that gave me 320 calories and 354 calories. I walk slightly over 4 miles per hour, sometimes with a 20+ pound bookbag. I don't have inaccuracy issues with my Charge HR on the weight loss side. I was trying to bulk for two months, regularly eating between 2500 and 3000 calories per day and only gained half of what I should have and I've already lost that weight. Everyone is different though.

scolaris wrote: »

It is correct that fitbit burns for the day include your baseline. I for instance get about 1400 on days I'm sedentary. Skip the nonsense about your exercise 'baseline' that's bro science right there. You will not increase your muscle strength or your cardiovascular capacity doing what you normally are accustomed to do, but a calorie burned is a calorie burned. There's no getting around that! (Also ignore people who say your body doesn't 'recognize' exercise you are used to performing... umm... nope)

LOL! Yeah, by that logic wouldn't you reach a point where any exercise you even do would be rendered useless unless you did nothing but exercise from the moment you woke up until the moment you went to sleep? If our bodies get used to it so much to the point where we shouldn't eat any extra calories, someone should tell that to my sore hamstrings and growling stomach.

AndyKiu wrote: »

No, according to yesterday report, my intake should have been 4160 calories meanwhile MFP says 2900 (same steps)

Isn't MFP giving you your calories including a deficit? Fitbit isn't, it is just giving you your total calories burned for the day. Also do you have you fitbit linked to your MFP account, or are you just entering in your steps manually?