Activity

marcustowey

Need advice. I gym every day for 70-80mins. Most I mix resistance and cardio. I generally ride 30 mins and cover 7 miles. I cross train 20 mins and treadmill 15 mins cool down at 3.6 mph. What activity level would that be? I tried active and kept to the prescribed goals but struggled to lose weight. In fact I didn’t. I gained to a point. Any advice please. I’m type 1 diabetic also.

MelanieCN77

Are you tracking the workouts with a device of some kind that's adding their calories to MFP?

CarvedTones

I use sedentary and log most activities. Some you can skip logging to help make sure you are at deficit.

marcustowey

No. Can you explain? I’m scanning all my food in to mfp if that’s what you mean?

marcustowey

Oh wait. No I’m not sorry didn’t read it.

MichelleWithMoxie

Depends on how you’re planning on tracking. Are you adding those exercise calories onto your daily calorie allowance? If so, it’s no wonder you gained. If you’re adding the calories back, I’d put yourself at sedentary. Then eat 50-100% of calorie burn back, and re evaluate after some time to see if this is aligning with your goals.

OR if you prefer, you can probably keep yourself as active but don’t log your calorie burn from exercise as that’s already accounted for with your “active” status. Doing it this way is essentially eating using the TDEE method.

marcustowey

Confused. Sorry newbie. I don’t add my exercise? I add my food in.

marcustowey

Thing is. I did eat a bit more than what it said and I did lose weight a bit. I am on verge of giving up. I just don’t understand all of this. 15 years back I lost 14 stone down from 27 stone. I just exercised and didn’t really do anything else. Now nothing is working.

Machka9

marcustowey wrote: »

Need advice. I gym every day for 70-80mins. Most I mix resistance and cardio. I generally ride 30 mins and cover 7 miles. I cross train 20 mins and treadmill 15 mins cool down at 3.6 mph. What activity level would that be? I tried active and kept to the prescribed goals but struggled to lose weight. In fact I didn’t. I gained to a point. Any advice please. I’m type 1 diabetic also.

Sedentary.

You don't do any activity for 22-2/3 hours a day.

Activity Level refers to what you do with your day. Under Goals and View Guided Setup, it says:

How would you describe your normal daily activities?
Sedentary: Spend most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)
Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesperson)
Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. food server, postal carrier)
Very Active: Spend most of the day doing heavy physical activity (e.g. bike messenger, carpenter)


Enter your details into MFP.
Select Sedentary as your activity level.
Eat the number of calories MFP tells you to eat. Weigh your food so that you're logging accurately.
When you exercise, log your exercise. I like to choose the "light/low/slow" options so that my calories burned is a little lower.
Eat about half your exercise calories back.

MelanieCN77

OK I would set to the lowest level and add in any exercise you do very carefully and eat those calories sparingly for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. e.g. if the app gives you 1500, that's your base for the day, then if you do a workout, add that to your day and eat about half of what it says you burned. Those workout burn numbers straight from the database are often very high.

marcustowey

So that would be lightly active then?

Machka9

marcustowey wrote: »

So that would be lightly active then?

Sedentary.

See my comments above.

MelanieCN77

Machka9 I think lightly active is the new sedentary.

Machka9

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

Machka9 I think lightly active is the new sedentary.

I can still select sedentary under Goal > View Guided Setup. In fact, that's what mind is set at.

MelanieCN77

OK my iPhone app has "not very active" as the lowest setting, and the website still has "sedentary."