Activity level? Desk job but working out hardcore.

Ebwash89

I work in an office and I'm sitting down majority of the day and when at home I am relaxing, laying in the bed if I'm not working out so I always had my activity level set to secondary regardless of how much I worked out. Now that I've hit a wall people are telling me that I need to increase my calorie or activity level to get pass my plateau. I try to workout at least 3 days out of the week some time I'll do 5. So should I reset my activity level to lightly active and eat more(at my bmr)?

cmeade20

I was working out 3 days a week and bumped it up to 6-7 when I plateued and that did the trick

ALH1981

how do you change those activity levels?

cvanbeek

I've heard alot of people say eat more for one day and that does the trick. I've had friends on here write status about how they binged and they are so sad. Then 2 days later they have lost 3 lbs. I'm sure everyone is different but your body is just used to what you have been doing. I would just change up one(cal/excerise) and you can always try the other later.