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On a day when you work and basically sit most of the day and only have a small number of steps, say 1500, if you log duration as 8 hours the system assumes you have been doing this all day and show 1000 calories when only 125 are really used. Do you have to log in only 1 hour duration or is there a way to deal with this?
It incudes you BMR ( base metabolic rate, 50 -100 calories/hr depending on weight age and sex)) - those calories you burn when sedentary and just staying alive. It also includes exercise calories calculated from steps and elevated heart rate.
If I walk 1500 steps over 8 hours and log that as the duration I will get about 935 calories expended. If I walk for 1 hour with 3500 steps and show only 1 hour duration I will get about 125 calories expended. Doesn’t make sense and seems to say that on the sedentary day I should only show about half an hour. Thanks for the reply.
It incudes you BMR ( base metabolic rate, 50 -100 calories/hr depending on weight age and sex)) - those calories you burn when sedentary and just staying alive. It also includes exercise calories calculated from steps and elevated heart rate.
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