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activity level

tbrown1025
tbrown1025 Posts: 165
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How do you all determine your acticity level when setting your weight goals and profile here? I'm definitely not sedentary but I'm no nurse either. I'm a stay-at-home with 4 kids in a two-story home. We homeschool, so there is definitely no "sedentary" time, lol! There is a bit of a calorie allowance difference as well as a weight loss per week difference between sedentary and light...how do I determine which one I should choose?

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  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    based on your description, I would say you are lightly active. sedentary is more like a hospital patient in a bed.
  • molsongirl
    molsongirl Posts: 1,373 Member
    based on your description, I would say you are lightly active. sedentary is more like a hospital patient in a bed.

    Agree...:laugh:
  • tbrown1025
    tbrown1025 Posts: 165
    ha,ha thanks! THe description said "desk job, etc" and I thought, "wow, I wish I could sit as my husband does" (at his desk job), hahaha!! :laugh:
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    based on your description, I would say you are lightly active. sedentary is more like a hospital patient in a bed.

    Agree...:laugh:

    and she would know- :wink:
  • staclo
    staclo Posts: 511 Member
    How do you all determine your acticity level when setting your weight goals and profile here? I'm definitely not sedentary but I'm no nurse either. I'm a stay-at-home with 4 kids in a two-story home. We homeschool, so there is definitely no "sedentary" time, lol! There is a bit of a calorie allowance difference as well as a weight loss per week difference between sedentary and light...how do I determine which one I should choose?

    I had the same question. I am also a sahm of 4 and I'm homeschooling (this is my last year of that). I was wondering the same thing! haha...
  • molsongirl
    molsongirl Posts: 1,373 Member
    based on your description, I would say you are lightly active. sedentary is more like a hospital patient in a bed.

    Agree...:laugh:

    and she would know- :wink:

    touchee madame, :laugh: well played! :wink:
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