Activity level

georgiamaxine1

6 days a week I'll do 10,000-14,000 steps a day. On Sundays I do around 6,000 steps a day. My activity per day ranges from 80-140 minutes a day. Some days I walk up to 7 miles a day, so would you say I'm an 'active' person?

animatorswearbras

I'd say that makes you consistently active, just don't log your walks as separate workouts

I'm lightly active (7500 steps a day on average) but some days I can be sedentary some I can be very active so since I'm inconsistent I log as sedentary and that add my walks on top.

animatorswearbras

Alternatively you could put down as lightly active and log your walks as workouts when you walk more than 10000 steps?

tinkerbellang83

Depends how you're recording it and if you have a fitness tracker synced. If you have a fitness tracker synced and have negative adjustments enabled your calories will be adjusted to whatever you have in MFP, the lower the activity level the more calories you will be "credited". Depending on the model and whether it has HR functionality it may or may not be accurate.

For example I have myself set as lightly active so only get credited for anything from my Garmin watch once I've done more than 5000 steps. But I generally do 12-14000 per day. There are the odd couple of days I am around 6-8000.

The activity level in MFP refers to non-exercise activity. If you're logging manually and the majority of these steps are incidental and not purposeful walking to/from somewhere then you would be better of setting yourself to active and not logging the steps. This will then be accounted for in your calorie total. If the majority of these steps are purposeful walks, set your normal work/home life activity level correctly and log the exercise seperately.

Alternatively you can use a TDEE calculator to gauge your average daily/weekly calorie burn, deduct the deficit you want and not log exercise at all as it's already factored into the total.

Whichever method you're using, stick with it for 4-6 weeks and see how your results compare to your chosen weight loss rate and you will be able to see whether you need to adjust your activity level.

SezxyStef

georgiamaxine1 wrote: »

6 days a week I'll do 10,000-14,000 steps a day. On Sundays I do around 6,000 steps a day. My activity per day ranges from 80-140 minutes a day. Some days I walk up to 7 miles a day, so would you say I'm an 'active' person?

Activity level for MFP purposes is before exercise.

If you are asking if you are active sure but don't use that as your activity level here.

SusanMFindlay

SezxyStef wrote: »

georgiamaxine1 wrote: »

6 days a week I'll do 10,000-14,000 steps a day. On Sundays I do around 6,000 steps a day. My activity per day ranges from 80-140 minutes a day. Some days I walk up to 7 miles a day, so would you say I'm an 'active' person?

Activity level for MFP purposes is before exercise.

If you are asking if you are active sure but don't use that as your activity level here.

Why not? As long as she doesn't plan to log those walks as exercise, she won't be double counting.

It comes down to personal preference. I've always preferred not to log every single walk, but to just pick an appropriate activity level since I found that easier (then got a fitness tracker which is even easier).