Should I change my fitness profile?

marelthu
marelthu Posts: 184 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I work in an office sitting behind a desk much of the time. When I started on MFP a few months ago I listed myself as being sedentary. Over the past few months I've started walking and regularly get about 9,000 steps a day, 6 days a week, much of it during my breaks at work. So my question is, should I change my profile to be lightly active?

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  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    Depends on if you log your walking as exercise or not. If not, then change your setting to lightly active
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    I would keep it at sedentary... unless you are losing weight too rapidly?
  • marelthu
    marelthu Posts: 184 Member
    DancingMoosie wrote: »
    Depends on if you log your walking as exercise or not. If not, then change your setting to lightly active

    It's logged automatically by Fitbit although I usually don't usually take credit for most of those calories as I think they're over inflated.
  • marelthu
    marelthu Posts: 184 Member
    meganridenour wrote: »
    I would keep it at sedentary... unless you are losing weight too rapidly?

    No. It's actually starting to slow a bit.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Sync your fitbit with mfp and leave th ED setting at sedentary.
  • megan_elizabeth8
    megan_elizabeth8 Posts: 216 Member
    Unless you're starting to lose too rapidly or you don't eat back any exercise calories at all there's probably no reason to change it. If what you're doing is working, don't fix it! ;)
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    megan_elizabeth8 wrote: »
    Unless you're starting to lose too rapidly or you don't eat back any exercise calories at all there's probably no reason to change it. If what you're doing is working, don't fix it! ;)

    Bingo. Changing your activity level is just going to change your calorie goal, which you can do manually regardless.
  • marelthu
    marelthu Posts: 184 Member
    megan_elizabeth8 wrote: »
    Unless you're starting to lose too rapidly or you don't eat back any exercise calories at all there's probably no reason to change it. If what you're doing is working, don't fix it! ;)

    Words to live by. Thanks for the help.
  • marelthu
    marelthu Posts: 184 Member
    DopeItUp wrote: »
    megan_elizabeth8 wrote: »
    Unless you're starting to lose too rapidly or you don't eat back any exercise calories at all there's probably no reason to change it. If what you're doing is working, don't fix it! ;)

    Bingo. Changing your activity level is just going to change your calorie goal, which you can do manually regardless.

    OK. Thank you for your help.
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