Can you help me figure out my activity level?

Losingthedamnweight

Trying to figure it out to adjust my calories and I’m also curious if my Apple Watch is even remotely accurate.

So I’m a cna and I work 12 hour shifts 3 days one week and 4 days the next week. During my shift I get at least 10,000 steps and my daily activities are a mix of cleaning, transferring people, laundry and just general cna duties. I work night shift so most of the people I take care of are down for the night. So my night I would say is broken up into a few parts.

First 4 hours is giving meds and getting people to bed and then cleaning the place. Doing laundry. Sweeping, mopping, those kinds of things. And then I have about a 4 hour lul where I don’t have to do much. So paperwork and sitting down. Then 4 hours of getting people cleaned up and ready for the day. And then I go home and pass the heck out in bed

What would you say my activity level is? Light? Moderate?

Machka9

That's what the Goal > View Guided Setup section is for.


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)

Deviette

Probably Lightly Active to Active.

Although the best way to work it out (or work out if your apple watch is accurate) is to get a couple of month's data. Use how much you've eaten, and how much you've "burnt". Compare the amount of weight loss you theoretically should have lost if your numbers were 100% accurate, and then compare to the amount that you've actually lost.

Working the above with my fitbit, I've got it being within about 50kcals as correct every day. So I'm pretty sure that my fitbit is fairly on point.

Lillymoo01

How active are you on the days you don't work because I think that would be the difference between whether you are lightly active or active?

sijomial

If you have been logging a while and your job hasn't recently changed then I would suggest manually setting your daily base calorie goal based on your actual long term trends.

That way it compensates for logging inaccuracies. My logging was consistent but not particularly accurate which lead to my rate of loss being a bit slower than expected. I just reduced my goal by 200 cals and proceeded to lose at the desired rate.

If you really want to play with your activity setting then you need to include what activity you do outside of work too. You might be sedentary at home or constantly on the move.

Machka9

Machka9 wrote: »

That's what the Goal > View Guided Setup section is for.


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)

To whoever "woo'd" me ...

Go here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided

If that link doesn't work, go to Home > Goals > View Guided Setup and read that page.

The descriptions above aren't mine.