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Re:Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Ec... by thrower123 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:51AM (#21212956)
The difference in the amount of calories I burn on days when I go to work, and am mostly sedentary, and days when I'm at home puttering around constantly, is massive.

At least as tracked by my Fitbit it can be upwards of 2000 calories difference, and 10-15k steps.

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Re:Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Ec... by _carl_jung on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:25AM (#21213188)
It's unlikely that your TDEE is 4000 calories when you're at home puttering around. These fitness trackers are extremely unreliable at estimating caloric expenditure.
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Re:Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Ec... by thrower123 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:10AM (#21213968)
Whether it is accurate in absolute terms is less interesting than what it reports in differing trends. Every indicator that it reports is vastly higher on the days when I am not in the office, chained to my desk. Just being on my feet, walking back and forth all day, up and down and round and round, is a night and day difference.
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