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Question.....

Tinawood40
Tinawood40 Posts: 65 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I don't always have time to exercise (I know I should and I want to improve that - but that's a discussion for another time).....so my situation is this -
I'm on my feet all day at my job - we own a busy restaurant and I'm constantly running around seating people and setting tables and clearing tables etc. always on the move - maybe paperwork for 1 hour sitting.
Should I put sedentary or lightly active for my exercise level?

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  • jdleanna
    jdleanna Posts: 141 Member
    edited August 2015
    Lightly active! Working in a restaurant is no joke. You need fuel for that. Sedentary wouldn't give you the calories you need to be working the way you work.
  • court_alacarte
    court_alacarte Posts: 219 Member
    lightly active or the one above AT LEAST. i work at a corporate desk job and barely work in 3,000 steps by 5:30 PM. now that's pretty sedentary....
  • Tinawood40
    Tinawood40 Posts: 65 Member
    Ok thanks. That's what I've been working with and I've lost over 17 lbs but the last couple of weeks I didn't lose a full pound each week like I was before so I started thinking maybe I had overestimated my exercise level.
  • Saraw0520
    Saraw0520 Posts: 15 Member
    I agree with lightly active or active! I am a pet groomer and never sit. I stand at my table and walk to and from the bathing room multiple times a day. I count myself as lightly active, just because I stand more than I walk, but I am not sitting either.
  • Tinawood40
    Tinawood40 Posts: 65 Member
    Ok good to know. I literally move non stop. So I think I'll stick with lightly active.
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