Calorie allowance
awildmiri
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I just got an UP24 on Wednesday last, and have found that the calories it suggests for me are far less than what MFP recommends?
I classed myself as Lightly Active as I am a teacher normally and spent most of my day standing up. School finished, though, but now it's the summer holidays I work as an admin in a hospital which involves a lot of lifting of heavy patient files and sorting through things while squatting down or going between boxes etc - basically I am still standing and moving for most of the day. However, I noticed that my UP wasn't registering that as steps or any apparent sort of movement - I got an idle alert in the middle of carrying a pile of massive files between drawers in the room, for example. I was told Lightly Active does include standing, while sedentary is if you're sat at the desk all day, so I was wondering how that should factor into my calories and if my UP should be registering it somehow?
I'm maintaining rather than losing, so it's important I have an accurate calorie count :S at the moment I've been pretty much using the UP24 calorie count just in case, but I wanted to ask just in case.
I classed myself as Lightly Active as I am a teacher normally and spent most of my day standing up. School finished, though, but now it's the summer holidays I work as an admin in a hospital which involves a lot of lifting of heavy patient files and sorting through things while squatting down or going between boxes etc - basically I am still standing and moving for most of the day. However, I noticed that my UP wasn't registering that as steps or any apparent sort of movement - I got an idle alert in the middle of carrying a pile of massive files between drawers in the room, for example. I was told Lightly Active does include standing, while sedentary is if you're sat at the desk all day, so I was wondering how that should factor into my calories and if my UP should be registering it somehow?
I'm maintaining rather than losing, so it's important I have an accurate calorie count :S at the moment I've been pretty much using the UP24 calorie count just in case, but I wanted to ask just in case.
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I got an idle alert in the middle of carrying a pile of massive files between drawers in the room, for example. I was told Lightly Active does include standing, while sedentary is if you're sat at the desk all day, so I was wondering how that should factor into my calories and if my UP should be registering it somehow?
UP idle alert & MFP activity level are two totally different things. UP only detects step-based activity—it has no way of knowing that you're squatting to look through files.
Your job is something UP just can't track. So it's going to take a whole lot of trial & error to find the number of calories at which your weight will maintain. Slowly increase your calories every week until you find maintenance.0 -
I get an idle alert while I'm filing at work too. Or carrying files. The thing is your arm isn't swinging to register the steps thus it doesn't know.0
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