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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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