Am I lightly active or moderately active?
kerricus
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Sorry, I'm new. I've read all the stickies, etc, but want to make sure I've got my TDEE right.
Female. 29.
Weigh 138.
Height 5'4"
I have a desk job so I sit a lot. However, I walk my dogs at least 3 miles every day at a brisk pace. I wear a pedometer to make sure that I always walk over 10,000 steps a day. I recently started getting back into running, but I only do about a mile every-other-day (in addition to the dog walks).
When I calculate my TDEE, am I lightly active or moderately active?
Female. 29.
Weigh 138.
Height 5'4"
I have a desk job so I sit a lot. However, I walk my dogs at least 3 miles every day at a brisk pace. I wear a pedometer to make sure that I always walk over 10,000 steps a day. I recently started getting back into running, but I only do about a mile every-other-day (in addition to the dog walks).
When I calculate my TDEE, am I lightly active or moderately active?
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Are you looking to use the MFP settings and eat your exercise calories back or are you looking to calculate your TDEE with exercise so you eat to a static number each day?
This explains it a little more. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/818082-exercise-calories-again-wtf0 -
I want to calculate my TDEE with exercise. (So I can double check MFP.)
My understanding is that my TDEE should match up with MFP when I eat back my calories. Is that right?0 -
Can anyone answer? It doesn't have to be a mod.0
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Can anyone answer? It doesn't have to be a mod.
The issue is that your calculation is going to be a rough estimate anyways. BMR calculation is an estimate and then you multiply by an activity factor to then estimate a TDEE. There's a whole crapton of error associated with it.
I understand you are trying to get as accurate as you can and I don't fault you for that. I think your best scenario is to calculate a TDEE using a lightly active multiplier and also calculate it for a moderately active multiplier and take a value somewhere in between the two for a starting point, or look at both values and use it to get a rough idea.
Lastly, results should always be taken into consideration. If you have accurate logging history in MFP, you can use that along with change in weight to sort of reverse engineer your TDEE at least to some extent.
I'm only mentioning this so that you place results in higher priority than an online estimator.0 -
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