have upped my goals, cals etc. do i add my work exercise?

malone103
malone103 Posts: 24
in Health and Weight Loss
I have recently upped my cals as i am so near my goal. What I was wondering is do I still add my work based exercise , I do alot of walking as I am a childminder, when I was on 1200 cals I added my walking into mfp, but now I don't, only my gym and swim exercise?

thanks, also any advice as to what i do when I reach my goal on mfp.

thank you x

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  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    You should always add in your exercise calories as MFP is created with a built in deficit.
  • malone103
    malone103 Posts: 24
    You should always add in your exercise calories as MFP is created with a built in deficit.

    oh i see even if i have manually changed my goals/cals myself.......thank you, didn't realise that, doh!
  • Donna_Houghton
    Donna_Houghton Posts: 62 Member
    First of all well done on your weightloss! Thats amazing that you are near to your goal!!

    I'm not an expert so others may have better advice than me but I think the key here lies in your settings. If you have told MFP that you are 'sedentarty' ie don't move around a lot then I'd say yes, definately record everything. If you've said 'lightly active' or 'moderately active' then MFP will have built activity that you do during your job in.

    I do a desk job so I have mine set to 'sedentary' and if I go out for a walk at lunchtime then I add that to MFP. My mum works in a factory so that involves her walking around and doing some light physical work - so she's set hers to 'lightly active' but doesn't count her moving around at work.

    Hope that helps :smile:
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    It depends. If you are using MFP as designed, your work calories are included in your activity level. Decide which of these best fits your work:

    Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

    Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. waitress, mailman)

    Don't record anything extra for work, but so log your "formal" exercise and eat those calories back.

    If, however, you upped your goals manually, it depends whether you included your work activity level in your calculations.
  • malone103
    malone103 Posts: 24
    First of all well done on your weightloss! Thats amazing that you are near to your goal!!

    I'm not an expert so others may have better advice than me but I think the key here lies in your settings. If you have told MFP that you are 'sedentarty' ie don't move around a lot then I'd say yes, definately record everything. If you've said 'lightly active' or 'moderately active' then MFP will have built activity that you do during your job in.

    I do a desk job so I have mine set to 'sedentary' and if I go out for a walk at lunchtime then I add that to MFP. My mum works in a factory so that involves her walking around and doing some light physical work - so she's set hers to 'lightly active' but doesn't count her moving around at work.

    Hope that helps :smile:

    that's what i thought, i have put my job as lightly active so thought i should'nt log my work exercise, thank you for the comments too, can't believe i have only 2lb to loose xx
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member


    can't believe i have only 2lb to loose xx



    Soooooo close!! Well done!
  • malone103
    malone103 Posts: 24
    It depends. If you are using MFP as designed, your work calories are included in your activity level. Decide which of these best fits your work:

    Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

    Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. waitress, mailman)

    Don't record anything extra for work, but so log your "formal" exercise and eat those calories back.

    If, however, you upped your goals manually, it depends whether you included your work activity level in your calculations.

    i have put lightly active as i am on my feet, walking or crawling about on the floor alot in my job so thought i wouldn't log my work exercise. i just upped my cals to 1300 as so many said 1200 was too low left everything else as it was, plan to up cals a bit more too when i want to maintain, think that's what you do???
  • malone103
    malone103 Posts: 24


    can't believe i have only 2lb to loose xx



    Soooooo close!! Well done!

    thank you :happy: any idea what i should do via mfp to help me maintain?
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    thank you :happy: any idea what i should do via mfp to help me maintain?
    Just go into your goal settings again and change What is your goal? to "Maintain my current weight". It will take a bit of trial and error to get it bang-on, but it's a good start!
  • malone103
    malone103 Posts: 24
    thank you :happy: any idea what i should do via mfp to help me maintain?
    Just go into your goal settings again and change What is your goal? to "Maintain my current weight". It will take a bit of trial and error to get it bang-on, but it's a good start!

    excellent thanks hope to be changing that in a couple of weeks :wink: x

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