Sedentary or lightly active?

Dancetherapist
Dancetherapist Posts: 33 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm not sure if I should say that I am "sedentary" or "lightly active." My job involves sitting at a desk for 30% of the time, sitting in people's houses for 40% of the time and driving 30% of the time. I work out 1-3x a week (barre classes and boot camp style yoga classes). I also take my dog on long walks (30-50 minutes) 2-3x a week. Am I sedentary or lightly active?? Thanks!

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I would start out setting it lightly active. After several weeks (4 or so) reevaluate and if you think it needs to be adjusted downward, move it to sedentary. You'll be logging your exercise (barre and boot camp and walks) separately so those shouldn't factor into this choice.

    FWIW, I work a 40 hour a week sit-in-front-of-the-computer job and have to set mine to lightly active.
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    I would consider this sedentary, and then log the dog walks and exercise classes separately. That's how I do it. I get approx 1 hour of exercise/activity in every day, but that means I'm just sitting (or sleeping) for 23 hours a day, so I assume that is sedentary.
  • DaveAkeman
    DaveAkeman Posts: 296 Member
    Definitely sedentary. Sitting at a desk . . . sitting at people's houses . . . sitting in a car . . . not much activity here. And you should log your exercise separately, so it will add on top of the 'sedentary' that you chose. If, after a couple weeks, you are losing TOO fast, or you absolutely can NOT hit your calorie target, then change it. This is all really a big experiment, anyway, with MFP's guidelines there to help guide you, to find out what works for your body.
  • Clarewho
    Clarewho Posts: 494 Member
    DaveAkeman wrote: »
    Definitely sedentary. Sitting at a desk . . . sitting at people's houses . . . sitting in a car . . . not much activity here. And you should log your exercise separately, so it will add on top of the 'sedentary' that you chose. If, after a couple weeks, you are losing TOO fast, or you absolutely can NOT hit your calorie target, then change it. This is all really a big experiment, anyway, with MFP's guidelines there to help guide you, to find out what works for your body.

    Yeah what he said!
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