Nurses, Questions about steps

[AutumnMoonfire]

I work on a medical and rehab unit (8hr day)and went over 10k steps, when I looked at the info sent to MFP I was given nearly 2300 calories for my day, My fitbit claims I've burned over 4000 calories, is this realistic? 

How many steps and calories are other nurses getting? 

I don't want to eat like a fool if I really didn't burn all these calories.

[Rich_Laue]

Hello @AutumnMoonfire mI feeling is that common sense is needed with any diet. .I would take a look at this post about MFP calorie discripancy it might answer your questions. 

In also moved your post to the Discussion Board since your question is not tracker related. 

[emili]

Hi @AutumnMoonfire- well it all depends. Your calorie burn is associated with movement as well as your BMR. Your BMR is based on height, weight, age, gender. It also depends on whether or not your tracker is an HR one or not. So you and another person can walk the exact same steps and come out with completely different stats... and if you have HR and are helping a patient that gives you energy excursion, your elevated heart rate will give you a different calorie burn for that time interval...

To figure out if its almost right, use an online calculator to calculate your TDEE and see what it says. Plus or minus it should give you a ballpark that you can measure up to your fitbit stats..

[AutumnMoonfire]

I reallydo want to hear from other nurses and I put it where it had been because for some reason I couldn't start a conversation in community. I've got a charge2 which I love, and as you know it does track heart rate.

It's not that I want to know, down to the last calorie, or that I want the two platforms to match perfectly, it's more wanting to know, from other nurses, if this calorie burn is generally correct and experienced by other nurses working in similar settings or if it's crazy high. I wanted a conversation not a solution, exactly. Is that not something that happens here?

[A_Lurker]

You may get an answer from other nurses, but it will still depend on their height/weight, etc.  I work in a production plant, although in the office there are some days I only really sit down for a few minutes here and there.  I burn lots of calories those days, more so than days I'm at my desk and make up my steps at night.

I can add more, but I'll stop for the moment and see if you get the replies you want.

[Rich_Laue]

My feeling for moving the post @AutumnMoonfire was twofold. 

The post is not about the tracker but about the way Fitbit calculates  calories. 

By leaving it in the Charge 2 forum, which is for tracker problems we are ignoring any nurse that may have one of the other 9 models of Fitbits. So by moving it here the thread has been made a soluble to 9 times more nurses.