Calories Burned Working in Distribution Center

JackFigures87

Hello everyone! I'm struggling with trying to find the best way to calculate how many calories I am burning while working in a distribution center.

Activities Include:

Operating forklift (Getting on and off repeatedly, driving, operating).
Moving product from pallet to pallet.
Unloading truck.
Walking short/long distances at a time.

I've been giving myself 600 calories a day, but I don't think I am giving myself enough.

I am 6'5" and 270 pounds at the moment. Don't know what my percentage of body fat is.

Any help with this would be great!

malibu927

Set your activity level to active, monitor your loss over the next month, and adjust if it's faster or slower than expected

JackFigures87

Adjust to very active or the amount that input in? I've been on active this whole time. I've leveled out at 270 for about three weeks now.

malibu927

You shouldn't be logging your work since that's in your activity level. Keep it where it is. If you don't start losing again, then you'll want to look at your food diary to see what you can tighten up.

JackFigures87

That makes a lot of sense. I've been doing it wrong! Dammit, thank you for your help! It must be he cause of why I'm plateaued out.

Purplebunnysarah

You could also get an activity tracker like a Fitbit or as other sort of pedometer. Link to your MFP account and enable negative adjustments. If you always get calories taken away your activity level is too high...

JackFigures87

Yeah, I had a garmin but it wouldn't connect to myfitnesspal correctly, tried troubleshooting it for a while. So, if I enable negative adjustments it will account for the high activity level and adjust calories to spend based on the actual day?