Activity level on MyFitnessPal

Nommzi13

Hi everyone! I walk for 90 minutes daily (briskly) +-8km daily. When determining my goals, would “active” be suitable even though I sit and do other basic activities for the day?

sijomial

Walking is something that can be accounted for either in your activity level or as an exercise if you prefer.

If you want to wrap up that walk into your activity level then try Active for a month and you can adjust if necessary based on actual results to fine tune things.

callsitlikeiseeit

There is a very long answer that essentially says yes, you can (and you could)

BUT for the average person, I usually recommend calculating your daily activity by what you do every day, when you gained weight (assuming your goal is to lose weight). So... if you gained weight doing it, its not counted as exercise. So, cleaning house, cooking, doing laundry ... do not get counted as exercise (and it drives me BONKERS when I see someone log it as exercise LOL).

So in your case, more than likely, that walk would be counted as intentional exercise. Just like me going to the gym gets logged as intentional exercise.

AnnPT77

If you want to just get a consistent calorie goal that you would follow each day (not eating back exercise calories separately as MFP intends), it would be better** to get your calorie goal from a TDEE calculator, like this one . . .

https://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/

. . . or use heybales' very nice "Just TDEE Please" spreadsheet, which uses the same general sort of approach, but in a more nuanced therefore probably more accurate way:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G7FgNzPq3v5WMjDtH0n93LXSMRY_hjmzNTMJb3aZSxM/edit?usp=sharing

** Better for technical reasons having to do with how the activity multipliers are set up, essentially.