@Bozdickens - I hope they are able to get you feeling better soon.

@Tucson - I use Strava for paddling and MMW for walking, but I turn MMW logging on and off because I think it gives me too much. I have been walking a lot and my legs have pretty much always been in good shape except when I have had arthritic flares and couldn't walk much for 2-3 months. I am hopeful i will get few if any knee flares with my lower weight. Anyway, I don't get my heart rate very high so i think I burn well under 100 but I am not sure.
The thing about paddling is that it is pretty strenuous or at least I can make it so from time to time and when I go for 2-3 hours I do some fairly long continous stretches. i am paddling and in motion about 80% of the time.

I weighed 158.6 this morning so my guess was pretty close. My scale only reports even tenths so I was only one measurement fine unit off. It was too fast to be a true gain of 2 pounds so I think it is a spike and I probably really weigh 157 and change. That is where I want to stabilize, though I am toying with the idea of stabilizing at 155 +/- 3 pounds instead. It is purely a mental thing but I don't want to see 160 even on a spike.

EDIT - Just read something that said walking typically burns (.57 x weight x mileage). That would put me at about 90 calories per mile.

EDIT #2 - that was in a forum post and someone else replied:

Note that this formula provides the GROSS calorie burn from walking. That is, the result will include calories you would have burned even if you had not taken a walk.

The formula for the NET calorie burn (the extra burn resulting directly from your walk and thus the amount you can eat back) is 0.3*weight*mileage.

I set my goal as a custom amount because the number mfp gives me is too high, but I may be going too low. Ideally, what I would like to do is have my base include no steps and log every one of them but I wold need to know how to log them with some degree of accuracy. I understand why most people end up doing mini yoyos in maintenance. There was some luck involved when I stayed really close to 160 for so long before I decided to drop it down a few more pounds.