I do not understand something here. Maybe you can help me with this, UpDownAround. My watch has three ways of adding up calories. One way is actually with MFP. This is to add up calories from exersize that day, add this amount to my base calories determined for a person who lives a sedentary life, and end up with one calorie count that I need to consume in food. So this means 2090 base calories, added to 145 calories burned for the day from exersize, to end up with a target of 2135. Another way is to add up resting calories, which is BMR, and add the all calories from walking that day, including calories burned from exersizing. So this is 1666 for resting calories so far today, adding this to 207 calories, yields a figure of at least 1873. Lastley, adding all calories from walking to the base calories. So this is 207 active calories added to 2090 to yield 2297. So there is 2135, 1837, and 2297. Which one is correct?

I like the way that MFP does this since my base calories of 2090 should include the usual activity for a sedentary life style, which should be not that much including walking. In this situation, normal daily activity can include much more than from walking during normal daily activity. Also you and I have determined using the base calories in this way works. Now if I am more active, and skewing the results, I can recalculate base calories accordingly by selecting this as an increased activity with MFP.

The second way is the addition of rest calories with calories from steps taken during the day, which includes those from exersize. This looks to be the most accurate at first glance. I do not think this works. Calories burned in this way does not include other calories which are not from walking. The base calories should take this into avvount.

Using all calories from steps taken in exersize together with normal daily activity, adding this to the base calories, provides another value. This makes sense if a good part of the calories burned come from normal daily activity is not entirely reflected by the base calories. For instance, a warehouse worker would be walking on the job allot. However, selecting a higher activity level for the calculation of base calories should take care of this. But maybe not.

What do you think? This seems confusing, doesn’t it?