Level of activity?

diaowl
diaowl Posts: 33
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi! I've been wondering for a while what my level of activity was and I was hoping someone could clear that out for me?
I walk daily for around 4-5 hours as a leisure time activity (I love the outdoors!) and do around 20-30 minutes of circuit training at home every day. I am currently unemployed, I've just graduated from highschool.
I always have a pedometer with me. My average steps a day are around 20000-21000 steps a day. So, what should I classify myself as? Lightly active or active? Thank you.

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  • kcmcd
    kcmcd Posts: 239 Member
    My guess would be active. I consider myself moderately active and you move much more than I do.
  • diaowl
    diaowl Posts: 33
    Oh! Okay. So, if I put active, do I still have to log my exercises?
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    I would say active... and maybe log the circuit training as exercise. If you happen to walk more than average, then include that too. Otherwise, that should sort of be accounted with your daily activity already.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    Yes you still log your exercises. The level of activity is overall getting through the day activity. It gives you a baseline of daily calories that takes into account your regular expenditure. Anything you do over and above your daily level is logged in.

    I have myself down as active because I don't sit at a desk job and I do a lot of walking instead of car riding. Then I also do about 6 hours a week of exercise classes. That's what I log.
  • joshbond85
    joshbond85 Posts: 28
    Go with lightly active and log the circuit training. Keep the walking off the tracker and think of it as gravey on the side =)
  • diaowl
    diaowl Posts: 33
    No wonder I wasn't losing any weight. Haha!
    Thank you very much for clearing that out for me. Starting tomorrow, I'm re-updating my profile.
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    If you want accuracy you may want to get a FitBit which will adjust your calories automatically if synced with your MFP account meaning you never over or underestimate your deficit. I have my account here set to sedentary and then eat the extra exercise calorie adjustment I'm given but if your step count is consistently high you'd probably want to set yours to active (to make food planning easier) and enable negative adjustments for FitBit so that on lazy days it would adjust it downwards. Sounds like you're going to be burning plenty so well done!!

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