Light or moderately active?

suppakana

I'm a little confused over whether I should be considering myself "lightly active" or just "active" on this site. To summarize my day to day activities:

• I work retail. When I'm at work (part time - 20 hrs a week) I'm constantly on my feet, moving, lifting, pushing, pulling, etc. I climb ladders and assist customers. A little bit of everything.
• I work out every day - or at least 6 days a week. Right now I'm doing the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred, but usually I do a mix of Turbofire, P90X, and running. In those workouts I usually burn no less than 300 calories, and the highest I've ever done was 1000 in one sitting (I did the longest TF workout followed by a short run. Whew!)
• I occasionally (see: not very often) go out with friends and sit around, or go walking/swimming. Not hard laps, just goofing off in water.
• When I'm doing none of the above, I'm either reading or playing World of Warcraft :laugh:

So when I'm not doing any of the first three points, I would put myself at only lightly active. I don't get up a lot while I'm at home except to grab food or something and bring it back to the computer... But at the same time, when I push myself into moving, I f***ing move.

Would you rate me as:
• Sedentary
• Lightly Active
• Active
• Very Active?

pesigrandi

While the categories are subjective I would say between work and working out regularly you are active.

Fragilebird24

I would say active. I was unsure about this also, so I just set mine as lightly active just in case. You're daily life is a lot more active than mine, so I'd go with active!

Madame_Goldbricker

I set myself up as sedentary to balance out my non exercise days. However, I do eat my calories back. Just whatever works for individuals I guess

herblackwings39

I think with MFP you just go by your work day activity. That's why the exercise calories are added back in. If you want to combine them like the TDEE method you could pick a higher activity level that accounts for both and then just track your exercise with a 1 calorie burn.

suppakana

Thanks for the feedback guys! I think I'll just set it at "active," and stop eating back so many of my calories. I was looking around at BMR calculators, and they say that I should be at 1620/day, so MFP gets pretty close to that with the 1590 daily goal. :laugh: