Activity level

3furballs

I tried reading the other post about how to calculate my activity level and it was over my head! I've tried using health-calc.com and I've tried scobby but I'm not 100% sure what level I would use on scobby. I walk to work every day, 30 min, kettlebell class 3 times a week, 45 minutes including stretching and warm up and 4 Kickboxing class of 60 minutes with 15 off that being jog in place/stretching, 10-15 minutes of resistance training and the balance on the bag and core. Then workinf at a deskand then taking care of the kids at home. So what would you put as your activities level?

heybales

Kid at home probably makes your non-exercise activity lightly active by itself.

Exercise, count walking as half time since it doesn't burn nearly as much as other stuff, then add up the time.
Walk in 30 min, and then walk out the same? Or 30 min total walking time?

3 x 45 min = 135 min (unless you know how long stretching takes, and warmup ain't much effort, to subtract from 45 min)
4 x 60 min = 240 (unless you know how much is stretching time to subtract)
? x 10-15 min (avg 12.5) = ?

135 + 240 + ? + walking time/2 = ?

Considering just the first 2 are 6.25 hrs - you are Very Active easily, if not more actually.

And with less than 10 lbs to lose, you'll want 10% deficit.

Is the issue actually weight loss, or fat loss in certain spots at this point?

If current pic, your workouts will have a much more profound effect for body transform if you eat at maintenance.

And then actually allow rest to recovery from strong workouts.

Exercise if done right tears your body down.
It's actually the rest for recovery and repair that builds it back up, stronger if diet allows.

Do you actually have some rest in that weekly schedule to allow that?
If not, I can easily see how the workouts aren't transforming you the way they could.

Diet will help a little, but it can't overcome lack of recovery.

3furballs

Sunday is my rest day. The pic is from last year. The 10 lbs is what I've somehow gained in December and seems to be in the stomach and butt and my pants don't fit well anymore. My workouts may be changing with my husband's hours being changed coming up. Right now I just want to lose the weight I gained in December and then I'll be looking to define a bit more.

heybales

Actually, 1 day a week isn't the rest that is needed.

When you give your muscles a good workout, they recover in the next 24-36 hrs.
If you fail to give it to them, then for example Mondays workout ain't getting anything from Sunday being a rest day, if Tue is another hard workout with same muscles. The repair is killed, the workout was wasted.
Except for merely burning some calories.

And define comes from losing the fat on top of muscle. But as many discover, losing fat and some muscle that isn't strong doesn't reveal much underneath.

So all that workout is for effort of losing 10 lbs - not for transforming the body even, it sound like.

3furballs

Actually the working out I've been doing long before wanting to lose the weight. I've found myself really liking sind my endurance get better and feel myself get stronger.

I'm finally seeing some down ward motion on the scales which is gratifying. I think my issue has been needing to clean up my eating. Eating more protein and less sugar or empty calories on a daily basis.