Calories Burnt during the day

[Harneet]

Hello Everyone

Happy New Year. I am using fitbit for last 6 years, started with Charge 2 and using charge 5 now a days.

I am 42 yrs old with 190 lb and 5-10 height. Normally i do lot of walking in the house and around during the day to keep myself active and step count high for workweek competition.

However my question is normally i walk 1200 steps in 10 minutes with calorie burn rate of 100 to 120. Is this correct, as per some other website normally walking 1000 steps we burn around 40+ calories and even doing that on treadmill it is a different number from fitbit.

Thanks

Harneet 

[ericpaul2]

This seems a little high to me,  maybe by double?  It does somewhat depend on details (speed, incline), but unless your heartrate is higher above 130), it seems too high.

See my recent post...I think my Charge 5 is reporting a high calorie burn for a single exercise in the app, but tracking the total calorie burn for the day correctly.

[Harneet]

Thanks a lot Eric. I saw your post but i think it was a different situation. I am attaching below my stat's for yesterday.

First Image is having step count throughout the day along with some walking activities and second shows the calories burn.

Can you please analyze and let me know if my calorie count looks good.

Step CountCalorie Count

[ericpaul2]

I'm no expert by any means, but comparing your numbers to what I have seen in the past, the overall total calories for the day doesn't look out of whack.  4000 calories for 25,000 steps is in the realm of what I expect.

Thinking about it again, I think maybe a 10 minute walk isn't long enough to really get a good read and pace is an important factor.

For example, 

Jan 3, 7:13p - you walked for a little over 11 minutes for 65 calories

Jan 3, 9:54p - you walked for almost 13 minute at almost double the pace and burned 134 calories

The rules of thumbs are general and highly dependent on pace and your body weight, but the data above looks reasonable (if you assume there's some error inherent to the process).  I don't have any references, but I assume my workout calories are +/- 10% error and my food intake calories are +/- 20% error, so to lose weight I focus on making the deficit at least negative PLUS 30%.