Am I sedentary or lightly active?

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  • paradi3s
    paradi3s Posts: 343 Member
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    likingbody7 wrote: »
    Try this site for a rough idea of what your base calorie needs are:

    http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

    This calculator coincides with the MFP activity categories quite closely.

    What I've found over time is that most of us are 'lightly active' throughout the day (it's quite surprising how much you burn using brain power at work and then coming home to cook and clean).

    I list myself as 'lightly active' and then add ~80% of calories burned from exercise (I'd be starving otherwise). My 'trick' is to try and leave a 200-300 calorie deficit at the end of the day. This allows for anything I may have missed during the day as well as any miscalculations in calorie burn during exercise. This method resulted in a drop of 37 pounds over 3 &1/2 months.

    Thank you! :-)
  • Kelll12123
    Kelll12123 Posts: 212 Member
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    I'm a college student too and my routine is very similar. It's a 20 minute walk to campus and some days I'll walk from campus to home 3-4 times. I have mine set to sedentary and then I log time spent walking.

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