Do you change your activity level?

FatMoojor
FatMoojor Posts: 483 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
My activity level is set as sedentary during the week because I so sit on my *kitten* most of the day. I have a 2 hour commute to work, 7 hours of sitting at a desk and another 2 hour commute home. So I think that counts pretty well for sedentary.

I have a 4 year old daughter and my weekends normally start around 5am when I get up and go for a long run and then I am pretty much running/chasing/hiding, until 7pm at night when it is time for her to have a stories and bed.

Do people think it's worth changing activity level for the weekends if they are so different from their normal week patterns?

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  • myfatass78
    myfatass78 Posts: 411 Member
    No keep it as it is
  • Dave2041
    Dave2041 Posts: 257 Member
    Keep it as it is... I cycle 10 - 22 hours a week but still have it set to sedentary ~
  • FatMoojor
    FatMoojor Posts: 483 Member
    Dave2041 wrote: »
    Keep it as it is... I cycle 10 - 22 hours a week but still have it set to sedentary ~

    But you would then include those burned calories in your daily amounts?

  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    Leave it at sedentary.
    Exercise calories are a bonus toward weight loss anyway - don't eat them back. (At least, most of the time.)
  • FatMoojor
    FatMoojor Posts: 483 Member
    MKEgal wrote: »
    Leave it at sedentary.
    Exercise calories are a bonus toward weight loss anyway - don't eat them back. (At least, most of the time.)

    I would be on a nett of around 700 calories a day if I didn't eat back my exercise calories. 1600 target from MFP and normally burn around 900 odd on a run.
    Weekends I'm burning 1500 - 2500 calories. Would be so ill if I didn't eat those back.
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