How active am I?

ironclaw79

I can't determine if I'm sedentary or lightly active. I don't know, but does sedentary mean in the daily calorie calculation that your calories burned for a day is equal to your BMR -- calories you burn even without doing anything? I am partial to the lightly active, but I think I am not that 'llightly active.' I am a student and take a walk building to building for maybe 30 minutes. But for three days, I am a potato.

TeaBea

I can't determine if I'm sedentary or lightly active. I don't know, but does sedentary mean in the daily calorie calculation that your calories burned for a day is equal to your BMR -- calories you burn even without doing anything? I am partial to the lightly active, but I think I am not that 'llightly active.' I am a student and take a walk building to building for maybe 30 minutes. But for three days, I am a potato.

I would go with lightly active.

Here's a step chart. You could buy a cheapie pedometer & track your steps.....then average them out. It's not a ton of extra calories....so it might not be worth the effort.

<5000 steps/day may be used as a sedentary lifestyle
5000-7499 steps/day is typical of daily activity might be considered low active
7500-9999 likely includes some volitional activities considered somewhat active
10,000 steps/day indicates the point that should be used to classify individuals as active
>12500 steps/day are likely to be classified as highly active

BMR does not include any activity. It's like you stayed in bed all day. Sedentary is a slight bump up from BMR....lightly active is a slightly bigger bump up from BMR.