Question about Activity Level

HorrorChix89

I'm trying to edit my goals but I have no idea what all I should change. I try to workout (walking a long distance, workout tapes, etc) everyday with 1-2 rest days of light-moderate activity and I burn about 3000 calories weekly or more. Each workout day is about 1-2 hours worth of workouts and the rest of the day I'm doing normal things like raiding the fridge for something that's low in calories or running errands or going to the store after realizing I have nothing to eat. Other than that I'm sitting at home on my laptop.

Should I set my activity level to Active or leave it as Lightly Active?

LesliePierceRN

That depends.. do you intend to log your activity? If so, set it as low as possible. If you set your activity level high and log your exercises, you're taking credit twice, it raises your calorie allowance unnecessarily. If you aren't going to log your exercise, then set the activity a little higher to compensate.

HorrorChix89

I always log exercise that is actual exercise. I use to log everything like shopping or driving just so I could eat back my burned calories. I no longer do that and I don't plan to eat back my exercise calories either

LesliePierceRN

Then set it for lightly active to accomodate the errand/running around aspect and then don't log the exercise cals if you don't intend to eat them back. That way you can't see them to eat them back, and it cuts down on any extraneous math.

HorrorChix89

hmm okay thanks for the advice

zenJes

Urm i would definitely recommend eating back at least some of your exercise cals, i usually try to keep within a 100 cal deficit just incase mfp overestimated ( n didnt have a hrm lol). I found if i didnt eat them back then i will be able to go hard on the exercise for a couple of weeks but then when burn out as not eating enough, so it depends on your goals, if you want to only loose weight or if you want to get fit to boot.. cus well at the end of the day if you do the latter you are going to loose weight regardless just it might take longer but you will have way more longer lasting results!!

HorrorChix89

Not trying to look like a fitness trainer or a gym rat. Just trying to get rid of my belly fat so people will stop asking "when are you due?" Since I can't point to my belly and say "GO AWAY!" have I have lose fat everywhere. I doubt I'll ever be skinny fat since I look nothing like those skinny fat comparison photos anyway. So burning off as much fat as possible is what I'm aiming for.