I love days where I walk 8miles

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,302 Member
    edited November 2017
    Whether it was 700 or 7000, ot was still a heck of an excellent burn and certainly being able to walk more helps one eat more and still lose! :wink:

    You do have to make sure to watch and evaluate how closely your tracker and real life results match so that you can adjust as needed. A trending weight app (since you have a Fitbit account just connect it to www.trendweight.com) will help you evaluate your progress and compare to expected results and allow you to enjoy your extra calories free of concern!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,344 Member
    OP, is your tracker set to calories or kilojoules?
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    OP, is your tracker set to calories or kilojoules?

    If it's a Fitbit I'm pretty sure you can't switch. It's a good thing I can think in both! If it's another brand that might explain it (though then I'd be thinking it was reading low!).
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,344 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    OP, is your tracker set to calories or kilojoules?

    If it's a Fitbit I'm pretty sure you can't switch. It's a good thing I can think in both! If it's another brand that might explain it (though then I'd be thinking it was reading low!).

    Same, it would be very low
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    I'm 192lbs and I walked over 15000 steps today and my total burn for the day is just under 3000 calories. You numbers are off.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited November 2017
    tmoneyag99 wrote: »
    I'm 200lbs folks. When you are carrying the extra baggage you burn more kcals.

    Regardless, I only ate a total calorie count for my BR (2300)

    I’m a 6’6”, 200 lb. male. So far today I have just over 21,000 steps (including a 5K run this morning) and my Garmin is showing my TDEE up to this point in the day as 3,224 calories. Which means I should end up around 3500 or so for the day.

    I think your Fitbit missed a decimal point somewhere.
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    Yeah echoing everybody on your tracker being buggy. If it's a Fit bit call their tech support people, they are good about replacing if it's a hardware issue!

    For reference on the day of my 50 mile ultramarathon I ran at a decent enough clip to place, walked several kilometers waiting for the awards ceremony to kick up afterwards and even as a taller woman (5'10") my TDEE on the day was 6,937. It seems unlikely with only a 70lb difference between us that your burn on presumably less activity would be higher if you know what I mean?

    Regardless, congrats on a great activity day!
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    tmoneyag99 wrote: »
    I'm 200lbs folks. When you are carrying the extra baggage you burn more kcals.

    Regardless, I only ate a total calorie count for my BR (2300)

    200 pounds isn't THAT heavy. My husband is 200 pounds and there's no way he'd burn anywhere close to that much. Physics says "no" to your 7k burn. I agree with everyone here that your calorie tracker is busted. Nevertheless, you still burned a ton of calories and got some great exercise in for the day! Congrats on that! B)
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,687 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    OP, is your tracker set to calories or kilojoules?

    This is probably where the error lies.

    Divide 7000 by 4 (approximately) and you've got 1750, which is a whole lot closer to the truth. :)

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,687 Member
    I will also add ... I've been doing a step challenge at work for the last month, today is the last day. I'm averaging about 13500 steps a day and believe me, I'm not burning that many calories or I would have dropped significant weight this month. I'm figuring those steps have given me, on average, about 300-400 calories per day.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    I will also add ... I've been doing a step challenge at work for the last month, today is the last day. I'm averaging about 13500 steps a day and believe me, I'm not burning that many calories or I would have dropped significant weight this month. I'm figuring those steps have given me, on average, about 300-400 calories per day.

    Imagine how many people wed see out walking if we burned thousands upon thousands for minimal steps ....I seriously wish wed all be healthier AND able to eat all the noms
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,687 Member
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    I will also add ... I've been doing a step challenge at work for the last month, today is the last day. I'm averaging about 13500 steps a day and believe me, I'm not burning that many calories or I would have dropped significant weight this month. I'm figuring those steps have given me, on average, about 300-400 calories per day.

    Imagine how many people wed see out walking if we burned thousands upon thousands for minimal steps ....I seriously wish wed all be healthier AND able to eat all the noms

    Me too!!

    300-400 calories doesn't even give me a decent sizes piece of cheesecake for my efforts.

  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    edited November 2017
    Yeah, sorry but there's no way anyone would burn 7k cals walking 8 flat miles.

    I recently hiked 6.3 miles (14,785 steps) w/o a pack over very hilly terrain up to just over 1100 feet w/slopes varying between 6-15% and my hiking cal estimator rated that at 1196 cals.

    My pedometer which assumes flat ground only estimated the same hike at 562 cals. Prorated for 8 miles, that would only be 714 cals, 1/10th of the 7000 cals claimed, which is probably closer to the truth.
  • maybyn
    maybyn Posts: 233 Member
    Do listen to everyone here, OP. There is no way you burned 7k calories walking 8 miles.

    Can you share the name/brand of activity tracker you used?

    If you have just recently bought it, the tracker may take sometime to calibrate to your specific profile. I've read of cases where individuals have recorded extremely high calorie burns (like yours) when their trackers were brand new. Also, apart from your profile, you need to adjust your vo2 max number for more accuracy.

    (FYI, the highest number of steps I had recorded was about 90k in a trail ultra before my garmin died on me and even then, I didn't reach 7k burn...)
  • ruqayyahsmum
    ruqayyahsmum Posts: 1,513 Member
    edited November 2017
    tmoneyag99 wrote: »
    I'm 200lbs folks. When you are carrying the extra baggage you burn more kcals.

    Regardless, I only ate a total calorie count for my BR (2300)

    My last big hike day I weighed 246lb (I'm 5ft 2 ) was carrying my 20lb baby on my back, walked just over 27000 steps, 116 floors as per fit bit and had a calorie burn of just over 4200 for the entire day
  • ruqayyahsmum
    ruqayyahsmum Posts: 1,513 Member
    edited November 2017
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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,302 Member
    ruqayyahsmum wrote: »
    20lb baby * bloody autocorrect
    Well, technically, I guess, auto-correct was probably correct! It's just that I was somewhat surprised by your work choice ;-)
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,344 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    ruqayyahsmum wrote: »
    20lb baby * bloody autocorrect
    Well, technically, I guess, auto-correct was probably correct! It's just that I was somewhat surprised by your work choice ;-)

    Haahaa yeah I was like "huh, makes sense, but that's an odd way to put it!" :D
  • ruqayyahsmum
    ruqayyahsmum Posts: 1,513 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    ruqayyahsmum wrote: »
    20lb baby * bloody autocorrect
    Well, technically, I guess, auto-correct was probably correct! It's just that I was somewhat surprised by your work choice ;-)

    My tablet hates me, i had to log in from my phone just to edit my post so i dont look like a total moron
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    edited November 2017
    tmoneyag99 wrote: »
    I took 15000+ steps yesterday .... Per my tracker I burned 7k calories.

    Um, either that was a typo or there is something very wrong with your tracker. When I used a fitbit to track my steps my most steps was when I walked for about 11 hours straight going 60,000 steps or about 30 miles. According to it I burned 5200 calories and that included my NEAT so really I burned probably like 3200 calories walking 30 miles. And I'm a 6' tall man.

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    15,000 steps for a 200 pound woman I would believe 700 calories, not 7,000
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited November 2017
    ^ still that
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    ryenday wrote: »
    lol Apple Watch gives me like 135 calories for 14000 steps max - and I think that is pretty accurate

    That's way too low so at the extreme the other way.

    I get about 400 calorie for 10k steps so 600 for 15k. On an 8-10 mile hardcore hike I can be looking at 1300. TDEE would total about 2400-3200 for the above two scenarios. Obviously this is dependent on weight but you'd have to be pretty darn heavy to hit a TDEE of 7k and as above if your weight allowed for it you wouldn't be able to walk 8 miles.

    I think that would depend on what @ryenday's activity level is set at, right? I'm set to active and my Apple Watch gave me 143 extra calories when I hit 16,622 steps last month for a daily burn of 2647. A 15,570 step day got me an adjustment of 73 calories and a 2516 daily burn. (5'2" female, was somewhere around 175 lbs last month.) Admittedly I'm still new to the watch, but the scale has been playing along so far.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,344 Member
    If I was @tmoneyag99 , I'd also be making sure that my height and weight were correctly entered - an extra digit added to either could easily explain the issue.
  • Stationagentjules
    Stationagentjules Posts: 57 Member
    OP, great job racking up those miles to the game and getting in all those steps. Way to work more fitness into your world.
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