Activity level

xxzenabxx
xxzenabxx Posts: 948 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I walk for an hour each day and in total I average 8000 steps a day. I consider my self sedentary because aside from the walk and my workout I sit at a desk and work (I do try and get up regularly to walk around). What would you guys consider my activity level to be?

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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Sedentary

    Log the walk and any additional workouts you do.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Presumably you don't count to 8,000 manually. If you link your tracker and enable negative adjustments, it doesn't matter what you put down for your activity level because the system will true things up for you based on what you did.

    But sedentary is probably best if your calorie goal comes from MFP. It's not supposed to include exercise, just your job. You get credit for exercise calories separately.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,120 Member
    Are you logging your hour walks? If not, you should put lightly active. 8,000 steps is above what MFP considers sedentary.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    xxzenabxx wrote: »
    I walk for an hour each day and in total I average 8000 steps a day. I consider my self sedentary because aside from the walk and my workout I sit at a desk and work (I do try and get up regularly to walk around). What would you guys consider my activity level to be?

    Are you logging the hour of walking or do you have an activity tracker synced up to MFP? If you are doing either of those things setting things as sedentary is fine.

    If you always walk the same amount, you could set your level to lightly active and not log the walking or sync an activity tracker.
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