standing/walking/on your feet at work...

cvthatcher

Well, it's not at "work," really...
I started shadowing at an orthopedic clinic (I'm a pre-PA student, which stands for physician assistant, if you didn't know) and I'm basically standing around and walking short distances very quickly intermittently for at least 8-9 hours, twice a week.
I don't want to log this as just walking, because I'm certainly not walking even most of that time, but I know I've got to be burning a lot more calories than I would be at home studying or whatever.
Anyone have a good idea as to how to log this?

Bob314159

In MFP - Update Your Diet Profile

select Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. nurse, salesman)

Then you don't actually have to log anything

cvthatcher

I thought about that, but I'm only doing this Wednesdays and Thursdays...as opposed to it being a full-time career, you know?

Bob314159

Yes that is a dilemma and the lowest walking activity in MFP looks like it burns more than just standing around being active.

I use a FitBit and its able to count steps and convert to calories and sends that to MFP, it also seems able to track "effort" If i'm standing around doing things it counts more calories in the day if I'm than sitting at the computer. The nice thing is that it just does it, clip it on your belt all day and thats all.

I_love_frogs

Similar issue here...I am a dental assistant/lab worker/all around office monkey and my days can be anywhere from 3 to 5 days a week . The days I work I am either on the move for most of the day OR waiting for patients to show up and doing nothing. I wear my fitbit, and keep my activity on sedentary and I let fitbit calculate the cals.

I would do lightly active, but half the time I am not....so I figure this is the best way for me to get the most accurate reading of my cals.

cvthatcher

what kind of calories are you getting if you work a full 8-5ish day? i suppose i'm about as active as the medical assistants are.

today, i put in for the time i shadowed (minus lunch) as slow 2.0mph walk and it was a ton of calories burned. which would be great, but i have a feeling it's overstated, since i often simply stood...took a dozen steps...stood again...