Calorie question: Activity level?

snowbab

Hey everyone. I'm just re-assessing my calorie goals and I'm a bit confused on how to log my exercise against my activity level?
I started a weight training program on Saturday and had my second session today, burning about 300 250-300 calories. This will probably increase slightly as I increase my weights/length of exercises etc...

Anyway. I will be doing this 3 days a week. On these days I'll also be walking 30 minutes both ways to the gym and back.

On other days-as it's the summer holidays-some days I'll be at home not moving a lot as I rest my muscles. But on others I might be meeting friends and walking around a lot. It varies a lot really... :S

I'm just wondering, should I set my activity level separately to my 3 exercise days? If so what level am I with the walking to and from the gym and the other days?

Or should I just estimate my weekly calorie burn on these days and incorporate it into my activity level?

Or should i set myself as sedentry and log everything?



If it helps I'm 5"8, 120-122 pounds and generally looking to tone up, although I would like to lose a little bit more weight (0.5 a week or less)

Also, on the scooby calculator, my TDEE is this:

Desk job little exercise: 1679
light exercise 1-3 hrs/wk: 1924
Moderately exercise 3-5 hrs/wk: 2169
Strenuous exercise 5-6 hrs/wk: 2414


Thanks in advance

ElizabethRoad

The activity level is not supposed to include your exercise. That should be logged separately. You can log the walking as well, but walking 30 minutes 3 times a week does not bring you up to even "lightly active".

snowbab

The activity level is not supposed to include your exercise. That should be logged separately. You can log the walking as well, but walking 30 minutes 3 times a week does not bring you up to even "lightly active".

It's 30 mins there and back. So 1 hour.

And I also walk a lot on some other days too, sometimes all day around town, or clubbing with mates etc.... I'm not totally sedentary. Just on the odd day when i feel like a day of reading or something

psuLemon

The activity level is not supposed to include your exercise. That should be logged separately. You can log the walking as well, but walking 30 minutes 3 times a week does not bring you up to even "lightly active".

This isn't true. There are several approaches to setting a calorie goal. If you include exercise (in this case would be lightly active) then you would not eat back exercise calories. If you don't include exercise in your tdee, then you eat back exercise calories.