Sedentry or Lightly active?

ell5bell5

I remember seeing a post a couple of days back giving a bit more insight into the activity levels rather than just, desk job, or 1-3 hours a week....

Does anyone have this ?
I'm trying to work out where I am. Probabaly somewhere between the two.

I have a desk job 3 days a week. I occasionally walk to work maybe once , twice a week, 40 min walk.. I occasionally do the school run once a week. 30 min walk. I walk the dog a bit....VERY occasionally I dig out the wii fit or just dance.

None of this really seems like anything overly sedentry....but then, I don't do nothing ?

Dies anyone have any insight ?

Saree1902

I personally put sedentary, even though I'm up and down the stairs at work, walking at lunchtime and working out 4 times a week.

However, I log nearly every activity I do - cleaning, walking, going to the gym... and eat back all my exercise calories. To be honest, I mainly keep active so I can eat more...I like food!!

Seems to be working so far...

bathsheba_c

My recommendation would be to put your lifestyle as sedentary and then log all the activities you mentioned as exercise. Lightly active would be more appropriate for someone who moves around a lot, but not as part of a discrete activity.

5stringjeff

I do the same thing, although I don't log every single activity I do.

WendyTerry420

If you are walking on a regular basis, you are not sedentary. I used to think I was sedentary because I have a desk job, but when I used my food diary to calculate my TDEE, it came out even higher than the TDEE calculators come out in the "lightly active" multiplier, but less than the "moderately active" multiplier.

bathsheba_c

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that there's nothing wrong with recalculating after a month. If you are losing on target, stay with it. If you are losing too quickly or too slowly, adjust accordingly.

Mokey41

Sedentary is this:


Sleeping - 8 hours
Personal care (dressing, showering) - 1 hour
Eating - 1 hour
Cooking - 1 hour
Sitting (office work, selling produce, tending shop) - 8 hours
Driving car to/from work - 1 hour
General household work - 1 hour
Light leisure activities (watching TV, chatting) - 3 hours

If that pretty much sums up your days I'd choose sedentary and if you feel you did something above and beyond that needs to be recorded then you can add it as exercise. Sedentary doesn't mean laying on the couch all day like some people seem to think.