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Guess my Activity Level? Please

Posts: 246 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok can you guest my Activity Level any help is good :)
I average 6000-7000 steps a day not including any exercise, I exercise 30-60 4x a week doing cycling or jogging/walk and I lift 14 pounds dumbells inside my room, I rarely sitting. I'm confusing that If I should go for Lightly active or Active. Thanks

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  • Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited May 2017
    Lightly active, and then eat back some of the calories from the cycling/jogging.
  • Posts: 240 Member
    What sort of job do you do?
  • Posts: 35,719 Member
    i get about 6000 and call myself sedentary
  • Posts: 1,794 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    i get about 6000 and call myself sedentary

    I did this too and it worked well. Now, at maintenance I've changed to lightly active and eat back only some of my exercise calories. Seems to be working well.
  • Posts: 246 Member
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    What sort of job do you do?
    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside
  • Posts: 35,719 Member
    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
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    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside

    yet you only get 6000 steps a day?
  • Posts: 246 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
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    yet you only get 6000 steps a day?
    Yes, At morning I'm going for walk to go to coffee shop and at 12:00 I clean the house, 1:00-4:00 I'm staying outside with a friend going anywhere we want by walking and so the day goes on I get 6000-7000 steps a day no doubt maybe I'm not stay at home, I'm stay at my place haha

  • Posts: 186 Member
    Yeah I agree with the others who mentioned lightly active.
  • Posts: 240 Member
    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
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    Yes, At morning I'm going for walk to go to coffee shop and at 12:00 I clean the house, 1:00-4:00 I'm staying outside with a friend going anywhere we want by walking and so the day goes on I get 6000-7000 steps a day no doubt maybe I'm not stay at home, I'm stay at my place haha

    I work a desk job and I get the same, if not more, steps. So... confusion.
  • Posts: 83 Member
    I wish I had that job
  • Posts: 186 Member
    I made a typo I meant sedentary would be a good activity level I would place you at.
  • Posts: 1,766 Member
    edited May 2017
    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
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    Yes, At morning I'm going for walk to go to coffee shop and at 12:00 I clean the house, 1:00-4:00 I'm staying outside with a friend going anywhere we want by walking and so the day goes on I get 6000-7000 steps a day no doubt maybe I'm not stay at home, I'm stay at my place haha

    So, are your steps just from when you're actively walking then? You're not counting steps around the house?

    6,000-7,000 steps/day is "lightly active". Log workouts as extra but probably only eat back half the calories if you're using MFP's numbers for calorie burns. Don't log your usual walks as exercise because you're already including them in your activity level.
  • Posts: 15,220 Member
    I am confused. Moderate walking is around 100 steps a minute. Your three hour walks with friends should, by themselves, produce more than 10k steps even at a slowish pace.

    Lightly active tops out at ~7k steps.

    So the activity level you select depends on how many of the things you list you are planning to log as separate exercises.
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