Activity Level?

meesameesa03265
meesameesa03265 Posts: 1 Member
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Newbie to this app here. Can anyone elaborate on activity level? I see walking the dog is listed as a activity. I walk my dog for approximately 40 minutes to an hour every day. We walk 3 miles an hour. I also do strength training at the 4 to 5 times a week. My job is a combo of work from home about half the days and the other days. I’m at a hospital walking around. Would this be lightly active?

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,737 Member

    If you use the MFP method then purposeful exercise is not part of exercise level but should be logged separately (you get more calories). You can also chose to not log exercise separately and asjust activity level to account for it, but it might be a bit more fiddly. Everything together would probably get you in the active or very active category, depending on the amount of strength training you do and how much you walk around at work.

    There's never one size fits all. Why not start with one of the settings, log a few extra calories for the strength training (probably not a lot) and depending on your weight a few calories on walking the dog. This is a good calculator: https://exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs (use net calories). Then reevaluate in 4 weeks: if you lose weight too fast then eat more, if you lose a lot slower then expected then also readjust, after making sure your tracking is spot on.

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