Lightly active, active or very active??

Zoe_lifts
Zoe_lifts Posts: 120 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi
So I've been around here for a while now and at first i was eating 1200 calories, and i figured it's not the best thing to do.
I want to update my fitness and diet profile to a more accurate number of calories i should consume daily.
I have trouble choosing my activity level..
Most of the time I will run 3x/week. When i don't feel like runinng i walk for an hour or so.
2x/week i will do 30 day shred or blogilates or other workout vids from youtube.
My job i cleaning, 5 hours a day. I clean offices in a factory so sometimes i have to walk quite a distance to get from one office to another. I'm ACTUALLY cleaning for about 4 hours.
In the morning i'm super lazy and just sit around at home when i'm not doing anything else like cooking or something else house related.
I'd say i'm.. uhm, active..? Or very active? I think to be active i should be doing my cleaning job maybe like all day or something?
Any advice is very welcome :)

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  • BigT555
    BigT555 Posts: 2,067 Member
    probably lightly active, but it doesnt really matter since its an estimate to begin with. eat at whatever calorie level for a month and adjust your goal based on your results
  • Zoe_lifts
    Zoe_lifts Posts: 120 Member
    Thanks :)
    For the last few weeks i've been eating 1500 cals becaue i set it to active.
    Didn't loose much anymore though. But well, that's good right, that i'm not losing 1 or 1.5 kg a week anymore like when i used to eat only 1200?
  • MBrothers22
    MBrothers22 Posts: 323 Member
    Well MFP doesn't take in account your exercise with its activity level but I would say you are probably active. I've done the numbers for myself and I am almost exactly "lightly active". Here's me:

    Work ~15 hours a week in retail. I lift heavy stuff and walk around.
    When I'm at home I usually cook for myself and do some housework but not a lot really.

    If your job is 20 hours a week of cleaning and your home schedule is basically the same of mine, then you should be more active than I am.
    My best advice, make note of your "lightly active" calories and your "active" calories, and manually input a number between the two. If after 3 weeks your loss isn't what it says it should be, adjust your intake. I'm lucky enough to be pretty much exactly lightly active but that's what I would do if I wasn't.
  • scubasuenc
    scubasuenc Posts: 626 Member
    The running doesn't factor into your activity level setting in MFP. You log that as you do it and get the exercise calories. With your job I would suspect you are either lightly active or active. Pick one and then eat at that calorie goal for a month and see how you do. Also don't forget to set your weekly weight loss goal appropriately, if you only want to lose 20lbs then your goal should be in the .5 to 1 lb per week range. If you want to lose > 75 lbs then the 2lb per week setting is reasonable. In between it should be 1 or 1.5 lbs per week.
  • Zoe_lifts
    Zoe_lifts Posts: 120 Member
    MFP is being so weird.
    I've been playing around with the activity levels and how much i want to lose per week, and it's either 1490 or 1520 - ish or just 1200.
    I'm thinking of seeing a nutritionist soon though. I think it's best to do this weight loss the right way with help of a professional
  • Zoe_lifts
    Zoe_lifts Posts: 120 Member
    The running doesn't factor into your activity level setting in MFP. You log that as you do it and get the exercise calories. With your job I would suspect you are either lightly active or active. Pick one and then eat at that calorie goal for a month and see how you do. Also don't forget to set your weekly weight loss goal appropriately, if you only want to lose 20lbs then your goal should be in the .5 to 1 lb per week range. If you want to lose > 75 lbs then the 2lb per week setting is reasonable. In between it should be 1 or 1.5 lbs per week.
    Thanks :)

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