The great calorie question

lovinmomma

I work 10 hours a day 5 days a week doing child care 3-5 kids very busy! so I set my activity level at high as we go on walks and I am cleaning for an hour in the morning most days as well (or at night) to ge tthe place clean for next days kids. I also work out 6 days a week, 3 lifting, 3 yoga and 4 cardio. I dont eat back my cals insted I have my calories set at the same everyday as a calculator I found on fitness frog. I recently got a job serving 3 nights a week for 4-5 hours (ON TOP of what I do) My qustion is a online calculator says i burn about 850 calories in that 4 hours (i estimate 600 as we arnt always that busy) and the nights i work i get astaff meal usually about 400 calories, should I log this and be worried I am going over my calories or just not worry about it (but log it still) I DONT log my serving calories.... any thoughts? should i log my serving calories?

Chief_Rocka

If you're making progress, you're doing it right. If you're not, cut back on calories a little.

_stephanie0

how much are you currently eating?

you want to eat enough to support your activity level but not too little so prevent muscle gain.

bcattoes

If you're making progress, you're doing it right. If you're not, cut back on calories a little.

This ^^

ToughTulip

If you're making progress, you're doing it right. If you're not, cut back on calories a little.

This!

Don't over complicate things :flowerforyou:

morgansmom02

Busy busy!! And I agree with everyone else

lovinmomma

according to a fitness site I burn 2500-2700 calories a day (with work outs) so I am eatting 1800 (deficit of 700) calories a day everyday, but with this new job i am starving by the end of the night so i eat my meal and i am usually at 2000 calories

TheViperMan

My guess is, considering your work load, you should be ingesting a pretty decent number of calories. Even at 1,800 a day I'm not sure I'm getting enough and I'm not quite as active as you (but I'm a guy.)

StinkyWinkies

What everyone else said...

lovinmomma

I havent made any progress eatting less calories! so I actually bumped it up to 1800 from 1500 and have seen some loss since doing that

slkehl

If you're at the highest you can go for activity level, I would manually adjust your calorie intake and add in those calories that you're burning while serving so that you don't have to log it every day.