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New job?

l00zrr
l00zrr Posts: 109 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm starting a new graveyard shift job, so I'll need to alter some things.

At the job, I'll be walking up and down stairs, and around a warehouse for ten hours, which according to MFP, burns around 2,000 calories. This happens Wed-Sat, not including the manual overtime. My MFP daily value is at 1,200 calories.

What should I do, or how should I alter my values to get the right amount of calories for my exercise?

Replies

  • StarArly
    StarArly Posts: 56 Member
    I don't count my job calories burned. It gives me an extra safety net.
  • LolasEpicJourney
    LolasEpicJourney Posts: 1,010 Member
    Change your daily activity rate under your personal settings and MFP will do the rest - if you feel your basic activity level will increase - why not : )
  • I don't count my job calories burned. It gives me an extra safety net.

    what she said. I am constantly moving at work but I don't consider them as they are hard to count and typically apart of my normal day routine anyway.
  • I'm a server and I don't count my work as a workout. I think I put myself at moderately active on here.
  • l00zrr
    l00zrr Posts: 109 Member
    Thanks! I needed to know how to change the activity level, I just didn't know how to word it!
    All better <3
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