New job, change calories?

EricJonrosh

After laying around on my *kitten* for the past 3 months I'm starting a job where I'll be working 10 hour days or more. I'm thinking of laying off the workouts (4000 calories a week on average) and seeing how the increased activity changes my bmr. I'm at 1,800/day now and need to lose 40 more pounds. I'm assuming this job will bring me up to a bmr of about 3,500 from 2,700/day. The problem is it will be very hard to find time to workout for the next few months. Has anyone increased their non-workout daily activity and seen a change in BMR?

kao708

You don't really say what activity level this new job will be. I would just change your activity level, if appropriate, to match the description that most closely matches your new job. Then continue to log any actual exercise that you do on the side.

EricJonrosh

It's rigorous work, not an office setting.