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Activity Level Question

CM9178
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I'm trying to accurately determine my activity level. I've always had it set to sedentary, but when using the IPOARM spreadsheet, it asks for additional hours of walking throughout the day.
I drive to work and start at 8:30 am. I sit at my desk pretty much all day, and leave usually around 3:30 pm to drive home.
When I get home, I do some stuff around the house -nothing strenuous, cook dinner, etc. Then I'm usually on the couch from about 7:30 pm until 12 midnight. But that time between like 4pm and 7pm I'm usually doing something moving around a bit.
On the weekends, I'm usually up around 9am and go to bed around midnight. During the day, I typically do whatever around the house, or run errands, grocery shopping, etc. Again, nothing strenuous, but still moving around. Then, probably sitting for at least 4 hrs at night.
At the present time, I am not doing any exercise though.
On the IPOARM spreadsheet, I've been using 7 hrs of walking/moving around per week but I'm guessing it should be more.
Figure 3 hrs per day x 5 days = 15 hrs plus another 20 hrs or so on the weekend, so that's like 35 hrs of doing something other than sitting/doing nothing.
With my current settings, it says my TDEE is 1917.
If I change that to an additional 35 hrs of moving around, it says my TDEE is 2043.
Should I use the higher TDEE, or a number between the two to be safe?
I drive to work and start at 8:30 am. I sit at my desk pretty much all day, and leave usually around 3:30 pm to drive home.
When I get home, I do some stuff around the house -nothing strenuous, cook dinner, etc. Then I'm usually on the couch from about 7:30 pm until 12 midnight. But that time between like 4pm and 7pm I'm usually doing something moving around a bit.
On the weekends, I'm usually up around 9am and go to bed around midnight. During the day, I typically do whatever around the house, or run errands, grocery shopping, etc. Again, nothing strenuous, but still moving around. Then, probably sitting for at least 4 hrs at night.
At the present time, I am not doing any exercise though.
On the IPOARM spreadsheet, I've been using 7 hrs of walking/moving around per week but I'm guessing it should be more.
Figure 3 hrs per day x 5 days = 15 hrs plus another 20 hrs or so on the weekend, so that's like 35 hrs of doing something other than sitting/doing nothing.
With my current settings, it says my TDEE is 1917.
If I change that to an additional 35 hrs of moving around, it says my TDEE is 2043.
Should I use the higher TDEE, or a number between the two to be safe?
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