Help me understand calorie adjustment

kayak4water
kayak4water Posts: 155 Member
edited November 26 in Health and Weight Loss
I don't understand the MyFitnessPal calorie adjustment. I went for a 2 mile walk at 8 p.m. and used map my fitness to record The Walk, and if credited me with 219 calories. Then MyFitnessPal calorie adjustment said it would give me 386 calories 4 about 4400 steps.
My understanding of the calorie adjustment is that of a gift of calories resulting from extrapolating myactivity for the rest of the day. The end of the day is near and the calorie adjustment hasn't changed.
Maybe I just haven't waited long enough?

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  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    What is your activity level set at?

    How many steps in total have you done all day?
  • kayak4water
    kayak4water Posts: 155 Member
    Way back when I started, I set activity at "lightly active" I think I underestimated that one--i swim almost daily for an hour, walk or bike an hour every other day, paddles every three or four...

    I might have about 7000 steps all day (a guess). I had Mapmyfitness on only during my walk--it credits me for 4377 steps.

    Does that info help?
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Lightly active already has around 7500 steps of exercise built in to your calories so it won't add more.

    Your swimming and cycling you should manually add.
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