Activity level?! ( Fitnessblender!)

sabaraba
sabaraba Posts: 42
in Health and Weight Loss
So, I find myself having difficulties with determining my activity level.
I am still in school, so I sit a lot..but after school I often stand in the kitchen spending my time with cooking and stuff.
However, I am doing one of Fitnessblenders 8 Week Fatloss Programs..I do them over and over, for half a year now :). For those who don't know Fitnessblender and their programs; 6 times a week; HIIT, strength, cardio, cardiovascular, pilates..basically everything is included.
( Saturday would always be a optional workout day -and on these I always choose to go for a 30-minutes-run - and Sunday is completely off )
Any ideas? :)
Thanks in advance, Sarah

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    You could set to sedentary or lightly active and then add all your exercise manually and halve the calories on MFP database and see how you go for a few weeks then adjust from there
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I will assume you're a Senior in high school and have turned 18, since being under 18 isn't allowed around here. You are? Great.

    What is your question, exactly? I don't do the fitnessblender thing, so if it's directly related to that, I can't help.

    I have seen it referenced often, but don't know what HIIT is.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    You could set to sedentary or lightly active and then add all your exercise manually and halve the calories on MFP database and see how you go for a few weeks then adjust from there

    This^

    MFP doesn't give you credit for exercise until you log it. Activity level is about steps, stairs, like that. The recomendation for half is because MFP gives really generous estimates.

    A different method that includes exercise up front is TDEE less a percent. Scooby's & IIFYM are 2 calculators.

  • TJR88
    TJR88 Posts: 37 Member
    I'm doing one of the fitness blender 8 week programs too (I think they are great!) - what I've just started doing is exactly what rabbitjb has suggested.

    I've set my activity level at sedentary and then log my fitness blender workouts by adding them to the MFP exercise database and inputting estimated calories burned (check out their video on how they calculate the calories burned during their workouts to help you estimate what you are burning better). I also log any time I do on my exercise bike.

    This way MFPs green number is really telling me my calorie deficit for the day and sometimes I increase that deficit by eating a couple hundred below my sedentary calories.

    It seems to be working well for me but haven't been doing it long enough yet to see if the daily deficits I'm estimating add up to the weekly weight loss they should. If I lose to much I'm underestimating somewhere and will eat a little more or if I lose too little I'm overestimating something (probably calories burned) and need to do more exercise or eat a little less!

    Hope that helps! Friend and/or message me if you'd like! (If you are 18+ otherwise you shouldn't really be on here...)

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