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What would I put my activity level at?

NavajoGirl85
NavajoGirl85 Posts: 164 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've always been curious about this question. I work Monday through Thursday cleaning homes for the elderly. Usually I work anywhere between 5 to 7 hours a day. On Friday through Sunday I am usually busy running doing different things probably only sit down an average of 2 to 3 hours a day. I don't ever know what to put my activity level on. I'm pretty sure I'm lightly active on here. At work I do everything from cleaning kitchens, cleaning bathrooms, dusting. Pretty much everything a house needs. The clients I have have me come once a week, some two times a month and some of them once a month but I average about 2 houses a day, not including my own house. Any suggestions? I'm losing weight now although I'm not eating all my calories as it is and for the last couple of days I have been in yo-yo between 196 and 197 pounds due to water weight or a little constipation.

Replies

  • mrsmeteor
    mrsmeteor Posts: 45 Member
    That sounds like more than lightly active to me; I'd think that would be active.
  • NavajoGirl85
    NavajoGirl85 Posts: 164 Member
    Diem78 wrote: »
    I'd chose lightly active or active. Sounds like either would be fine. Lightly active may give you less cals to eat but at least then you'd know you're not going over-- especially when you have slightly less active weeks/days. Your choice though!

    In order to be safe I chose lightly active. Sometimes I'm so super busy that I don't even sit down until after 10 p.m. but then there are days where I am not as busy.
  • mrsmeteor
    mrsmeteor Posts: 45 Member
    Diem78 wrote: »
    I'd chose lightly active or active. Sounds like either would be fine. Lightly active may give you less cals to eat but at least then you'd know you're not going over-- especially when you have slightly less active weeks/days. Your choice though!

    In order to be safe I chose lightly active. Sometimes I'm so super busy that I don't even sit down until after 10 p.m. but then there are days where I am not as busy.

    Well, if you have days where you're not as busy then lightly active makes more sense. I did housecleaning as a job in the summers when I was in college and remember it as being pretty active. After years of working at a desk job maybe my perspective is skewed.
  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
    edited March 2017
    I set it at sedentary then eat 1/2 exercise calories not housework etc but any exercise that is more than usual housework etc
    Then eat only upto 1/2 your exercise calories back
    I do this as it's really hard to know our real activity level
  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
    Diem78 wrote: »
    I'd chose lightly active or active. Sounds like either would be fine. Lightly active may give you less cals to eat but at least then you'd know you're not going over-- especially when you have slightly less active weeks/days. Your choice though!

    In order to be safe I chose lightly active. Sometimes I'm so super busy that I don't even sit down until after 10 p.m. but then there are days where I am not as busy.

    Don't forget our body's get used to what we do and I only add exercise I do not any household chores or I'd have tons calories
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,574 Member
    Activity is activity.
    This level of activity is more than MFP's active setting.
  • NavajoGirl85
    NavajoGirl85 Posts: 164 Member
    mrsmeteor wrote: »
    Diem78 wrote: »
    I'd chose lightly active or active. Sounds like either would be fine. Lightly active may give you less cals to eat but at least then you'd know you're not going over-- especially when you have slightly less active weeks/days. Your choice though!

    In order to be safe I chose lightly active. Sometimes I'm so super busy that I don't even sit down until after 10 p.m. but then there are days where I am not as busy.

    Well, if you have days where you're not as busy then lightly active makes more sense. I did housecleaning as a job in the summers when I was in college and remember it as being pretty active. After years of working at a desk job maybe my perspective is skewed.

    I would say that I have 5 days a month where I'm not running doing stuff or working.
  • NavajoGirl85
    NavajoGirl85 Posts: 164 Member
    size102b wrote: »
    Diem78 wrote: »
    I'd chose lightly active or active. Sounds like either would be fine. Lightly active may give you less cals to eat but at least then you'd know you're not going over-- especially when you have slightly less active weeks/days. Your choice though!

    In order to be safe I chose lightly active. Sometimes I'm so super busy that I don't even sit down until after 10 p.m. but then there are days where I am not as busy.

    Don't forget our body's get used to what we do and I only add exercise I do not any household chores or I'd have tons calories

    I don't add any of the things I do to the houses to my excersises.
  • NavajoGirl85
    NavajoGirl85 Posts: 164 Member
    This is why it's confusing because 5-6 days a week I'm very active and the then for a day I'm still active but I'm at home so I do some sitting in between things.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Set it as active and then see what happens with your weight loss vs. expectations for a month or 2. If you lose weight too fast, up the activity level.

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