Woke up and Fitbit said I had 44 steps for the day

[Yisheng]

Was I sleep walking? 44 steps is like from my bed to the fridge.

Woke up this morning at 6:30 after going to bed around 11:30 last night.

I have no recollecting of walking.

[shipo]

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@Yisheng wrote:
Was I sleep walking? 44 steps is like from my bed to the fridge.

Woke up this morning at 6:30 after going to bed around 11:30 last night.

I have no recollecting of walking.

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Random arm movement; no big deal.

[mindreader90]

Has happened to me as well. At the end of the day, reduce the steps by around 5%-8% to gauge the actual count. Also, make sure that you have the dormant hand setting set which you can do through the Fitbit app.

[ElsieG]

I think that is great that you are sleep walking.  Seriously, how many steps to your bathroom and how many times to you get up during the night?

[becckyp]

Hi.  Does anyone know how to manually enter information on the FitBit Dashboard so that it shows how many steps you acheieved doing a particular activity?  For example,  if I lift weights for 15 minutes, that is an equivalant of aobut 1,000 steps. But it doesn't show the actual 1,000 steps for that activity in either MyFitnessPal nor can I find a way to add the actual steps on my FitBit Dashboard.  Anyone know how to do this?  Thank you. beckypharo@yahoo.com

[GershonSurge]

@becckyp

Many of us who lift and do other activities focus on calories burned a day instead of steps. If this doesn't meet your needs, I suggest walking a mile or two and dividing the number of steps by the number of calories burned. This gives you steps/calorie.  If you multiply this number by the number of calories you burn weight lifting, then you get an equivalent number of steps.

Be careful you don't double count steps by logging steps. I don't know how to prevent this, but maybe someone else does.

[becckyp]

Thank you for the reply. I am actually in a monthly step competition with a bunch of people so I want to make sure to convert the good things that I am doing.  Not worried about tracking little stuff, but 15-20 minutes of weight lifting can add another 1,000ish steps for my count but I just don't know how to add that in yet.

[Lilmisshc]

If you're using free weights your fitbit might be recording it as steps anyway. When I'm stapling stuff at work or shuffling papers (I do a lot of this) fitbit counts all the movements as steps.