Walking on spot calories

Rubyhelena8
Rubyhelena8 Posts: 13 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi all! So I’m currently maintaining my weight and basically I want to eat as much as possible without gaining weight and a go to Method for extra calories is steps. So I was wondering, when mfp translates steps into calories do they still equal the same amount of calories if I’m just walking on the spot/marching/jogging as the weather is pretty bad where I am so I don’t really wanna go out for a walk but I’ve been able to get to Over 15k steps a day by just walking on the spot every now and then. So is it still okay for me to eat the calculated calories from steps on mfp? It is connected to my iPhone so automatically translates it into calories. Also I’ve set my activity level at sedentary and if I walk like 13k steps it only says ~100kcal whereas online calculators for steps say ~350kcal? Why is that?

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  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    As to the calorie equivalent, you might experiment for a couple of weeks and see what happens. If you gain, then the "in place" steps are probably overestimated. If you maintajn, then, you learned what you wanted to know :-)
  • Rubyhelena8
    Rubyhelena8 Posts: 13 Member
    Thank you ! :)
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    When you use the simplistic function of MFP getting a step count from a device - yes it's given the same calories.

    Obviously that is not true though, but it's what you get.

    There is NO direct steps to calories. Steps can be used to get distance though, and distance, time, and mass are accurate calculation of calorie burn.
    But that's not what MFP has ability to do.

    Obviously not sedentary though, even at 5K steps - that would be into the Lightly-Active level.
    Now you are above that level by a lot, even if they are small calorie burn steps.
    If this is an almost daily plan, you could easily use Active and feel safe, that level usually ends about 10K steps roughly, you are still above that.

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