Just How Sedentary is "Sedentary," Anyway?

BWBTrish

I have the same as you, sedentary. Work from home, so desk job. No children at home and we live not that big. The housework i even share with my husband who insist on helping. He vacuums i mob and the other way around etc etc. Shopping we always do together and he carries the stuff all in and out of the truck and house. So yes i did sedentary and my exercise i log on here.

I keep track with my step counter and polar watch It gives me for excercise around 600 to 700 daily. Those i log and i estimate that it is to high for 50%. So 700 = really 350. From those 350 i eat half back .....when i need it ( read hungry or want something nice).

With this system i lost 54 pounds since the first of October.

PeachyCarol

If you want to know what really sedentary is, at the risk of a little bit too much TMI, I'll share my current situation with you. I'm 52 years old. I have Hashimoto's disease, my psoriatic arthritis is flaring, I have a bad migraine and am out of medication to treat it, and the body that I thought was finally menopausal is trying to have a period (I'm spotting).

I got up this morning, showered, and sat in my chair that supports my back and knees. I only got up to use the bathroom and then again when we all decided to have lunch. Then I took a nap. I slept for 3 hours. I'm back in my chair again, where I'll probably stay until bed time.

THAT'S sedentary. I normally am more active than this, but for now, it's slug city.

victoriaalice40

Sedentary

If you’re sedentary, your daily activities include:
Activities of daily living only, such as shopping, cleaning, watering plants, taking out the trash, walking the dog, mowing the lawn and gardening.
No moderate of vigorous activities.
Unless you do at least 30 minutes per day of intentional exercise, you are considered sedentary.
Spending most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)
The majority of people will be considered sedentary.
Lightly Active

If you’re lightly active, your daily activities include:
Activities of daily living only, such as shopping, cleaning, watering plants, taking out the trash, walking the dog, mowing the lawn and gardening.
Daily exercise that is equal to walking for 30 minutes at 4mph. For an adult of average weight, this amount of exercise will burn about 130-160 additional calories.
More intense exercise can be performed for less time to achieve the same goal. For example, 15-20 minutes of vigorous activity, such as aerobics, skiing or jogging on a daily basis would put you in this category.
Spending a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

kcd1961

I have mine set at sedentary and log any exercise, and additional "housework" like gardening, maintenance, extended cooking (but not the basics like washing, normal cooking and quick cleaning). I eat back around half of my "exercise" calories and that seems to work for me (losing slightly faster than my target of .5kg per week). If that stops working, I will manually adjust as needed.

LivingtheLeanDream

victoriaalice40 wrote: »

Sedentary

If you’re sedentary, your daily activities include:
Activities of daily living only, such as shopping, cleaning, watering plants, taking out the trash, walking the dog, mowing the lawn and gardening.
No moderate of vigorous activities.
Unless you do at least 30 minutes per day of intentional exercise, you are considered sedentary.
Spending most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)
The majority of people will be considered sedentary.
Lightly Active

If you’re lightly active, your daily activities include:
Activities of daily living only, such as shopping, cleaning, watering plants, taking out the trash, walking the dog, mowing the lawn and gardening.
Daily exercise that is equal to walking for 30 minutes at 4mph. For an adult of average weight, this amount of exercise will burn about 130-160 additional calories.
More intense exercise can be performed for less time to achieve the same goal. For example, 15-20 minutes of vigorous activity, such as aerobics, skiing or jogging on a daily basis would put you in this category.
Spending a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

Thanks for explanation. ..there's only one thing I wouldn't say should be under sedentary. ..lawn mowing! It takes me 1.25 hrs doing ours and it's flipping hard work, sweaty and dirty lol - but as I'm set to lightly active I don't log it anyway .....just had to have my say lol

LAWoman72

Thank you for the thoughts and good information, everyone.

I am just going to stick with my settings as I have them and see what happens. Losing is the goal, after all...so I wasn't complaining...just wondering. I'll stick with this and go from here.