Activity level

SheAintGivinqUp160

Adjusting my calories again and ALWAYS get stumped with my activity level

830-430pm desk job x5
530-930pm active job x5
Hour of gym 6x

6 hours of gym
24-29 hours active job
40 hours sedentary job

Would my activity level be lightly active or active ?

JeromeBarry1

If one of your jobs causes you to spend 1 hour sitting, interrupted by no more than 5 minutes (bathroom visit), you are sedentary. This is sedentary even if the other job has you very active. Classify yourself as "sedentary" and log your exercise accurately.

janejellyroll

Keep in mind that if you choose sedentary and you lose faster than expected, you can always bump up the activity level.

cwolfman13

If you're using MFP as designed, your exercise has no bearing on your activity level...that's why there's no mention of it in the descriptors...it's just your day to day. You account for exercise after the fact when you log it and get additional calories to "eat back"

Personally I'd just go with light active and make adjustments from there as per actual results over the coming weeks.

celestestar

I work 2 days a week, a total of 9 hours per week, active on my feet, and distribute catalogues on other days, roughly another 5 to 9 hours per week, to give me extra cashflow. I'm usually on the couch sitting down at home with my remaining hours. I found that my current maintenance calorie level is that of a lightly active person. I'd personally go with the lightly active and adjust from there

rosebarnalice

I'd set my activity level as "sedentary" and then log exercise.

kpkitten

Lightly active, log your workouts separately (eat back 50-75% of those calories based on how accurate the calories mfp gives you look) and adjust as necessary in a few weeks.

SusanMFindlay

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

If one of your jobs causes you to spend 1 hour sitting, interrupted by no more than 5 minutes (bathroom visit), you are sedentary. This is sedentary even if the other job has you very active. Classify yourself as "sedentary" and log your exercise accurately.

No!!!

That may be true in terms of classifying your risk of circulatory issues, but it is a very bad way to estimate your activity level. The fact that you have a second active job means that you are guaranteed to burn a lot more calories than you would if sedentary all day.

The best way to get a decent estimate of activity level as required to estimate calorie burn will be to either wear a pedometer for a few typical days or use a step counting app on your phone for the same.

Sedentary: <5000 steps/day
Lightly Active: 5000-9999 steps/day
Active: 10,000-14,999 steps/day
Very Active: more than 15,000 steps/day

SheAintGivinqUp160

Oh my I get 10000-20000 steps easy a day lol

PAV8888

SheAintGivinqUp160 wrote: »

Oh my I get 10000-20000 steps easy a day lol

You are active (10K) to very active (between ~12.5K to ~15.5K) to beyond very active at above ~15.5K

when exceeding 15K you cannot capture your activity level using the base MFP settings, not without logging some additional "exercise" to account for that activity.

nosebag1212

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

If one of your jobs causes you to spend 1 hour sitting, interrupted by no more than 5 minutes (bathroom visit), you are sedentary. This is sedentary even if the other job has you very active. Classify yourself as "sedentary" and log your exercise accurately.

Horrible advice, "sedentary" is for literal office workers who do zero activity, op gets over 10-20k steps a day and exercises 6 hours a week in addition, she is active at the very least.