Sedentary VS Lightly Active

jdelisle

I initially put down the 'sedentary' as my activity level; I work in an office... I am an assistant and generally I am doing stuff at my computer.

Well now it is tax season so I am BUSY. I am mostly away from my desk carrying stacks of files all over the place, climbing up and down the stepladder retrieving stacks of files or putting them back. I hardly sit all day long. I get home and I am just WIPED and have no motivation to exercise. All I want to do is relax until the next day. Would you guys count this as exercise (and if so, how?) or would you just leave it? I don't want to throw my body into starvation mode by not getting enough calories in vs how many I am burning, and to be completely honest I am feeling a lot hungrier than usual. I was thinking of changing my activity level to 'lightly active' for tax season (generally lasts three months in an accounting office) but each day is sooo different.

Any feedback would be great!

Thanks guys!

jdelisle

I initially put down the 'sedentary' as my activity level; I work in an office... I am an assistant and generally I am doing stuff at my computer.

Well now it is tax season so I am BUSY. I am mostly away from my desk carrying stacks of files all over the place, climbing up and down the stepladder retrieving stacks of files or putting them back. I hardly sit all day long. I get home and I am just WIPED and have no motivation to exercise. All I want to do is relax until the next day. Would you guys count this as exercise (and if so, how?) or would you just leave it? I don't want to throw my body into starvation mode by not getting enough calories in vs how many I am burning, and to be completely honest I am feeling a lot hungrier than usual. I was thinking of changing my activity level to 'lightly active' for tax season (generally lasts three months in an accounting office) but each day is sooo different.

Any feedback would be great!

Thanks guys!

heather0mc

good question. i would personally leave it and factor in part of your running around as a form of excercise. not sure what is best tho ~ i am sure someone will! :flowerforyou:

MyaPapaya75

I would put lightly active and just change it back to sedentary when it slows down. Putting at excercise may be a bad move because it may give you too many ..extra excercise calories for the day since you really cant calculate it correctly.

omid990

i wouldn't count it as exercise for sure.
i would probably change it to lightly active, at least for as long as your moving around.

drewzaun

You can change your activity level if you like, but probably it doesn't really matter. Your body will adjust to the workload and if you stay active you will have energy for the gym etc.

Don't worry about the starvation mode thing. I get the sense a lot of people here are afraid of that but really, that is a drastic measure your body takes to keep from dieing. Being short on meals is not going to do it unless you only eat like 2 bowls of cereal a day, and nothing else...

yellow_pepper

Don't worry about the starvation mode thing. I get the sense a lot of people here are afraid of that but really, that is a drastic measure your body takes to keep from dieing. Being short on meals is not going to do it unless you only eat like 2 bowls of cereal a day, and nothing else...

Amen to that.

mehapp

I would change to moderately active.
I would not count this as exercise, however.

On a side note, try to make sure you are legitimately hungry and that it is not a side effect of the extra stress at work.

Good Luck!