Tracking chores while wearing a pedometer
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ldangelina
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I have a FitBit Blaze that tracks my steps; I assume it’s accurate. If it is, then I need to move a LOT more than I do.
Will tracking activities, like washing dishes or even cooking, falsify my calories burned? By tracking movements that are not traditional exercises am I over-counting burned calories?
Will tracking activities, like washing dishes or even cooking, falsify my calories burned? By tracking movements that are not traditional exercises am I over-counting burned calories?
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Fitbit tracks all your activity. It's how you account for that in your eating that matters.
Here is the Fitbit Group https://media2.giphy.com/media/hAQKxS7pfRyY8/source.gif
Here is the FAQ that tells you how to set it up to work correctly with Myfitnesspal:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-amp-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p11 -
Those things you're talking about are your day to day activity. Counting them as exercise would be "double dipping" calories.
I wear a Garmin pedometer and am starting to average close to 10k steps a day. I don't log any of my walking as exercise let alone other day to day activity, because it already counts as movement.1
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