Activity Level or Exercise?

mommy2js
mommy2js Posts: 196 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Ok, I have been helping my sister at her very busy restaurant 2 days a week by waiting tables. I run like crazy (15 tables on my own) for about 4 hours straight, no break, no sitting, no time to use bathroom! Anyway, I have my activity level set to light, or whatever is the 2nd level and noticed that the 3rd level includes waitress in its description. My question is this: should I count these 2 days as exercise? or should I change my activity level? If I change my activity level, it changes my amount of weight lost per week - and I KNOW I am not going to lose that much. So for 5 days a week I fit well into the 2nd activity level, but am I pushing it to count it as exercise? If so, how do you think I should count it? If I estimate walking at a leisure pace (which is WAY less strenuous than actuality) I get some crazy amount of calories burned so I usually put in about 300. HELP!!!??? I don't want to end up gaining from this!

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  • BetterVersion
    BetterVersion Posts: 459
    Leave it set to light... consider the extra cals you burn on those particular days a bonus.
  • Rev_no_Boosh
    Rev_no_Boosh Posts: 239
    I completely agree with mommamccoy. Because you're only doing that two days of the week I would recommend you not change your settings. If you do, you'll be out of balance for the other 5 days of the week. I would count some of that as exercise and just use it as a bonus.
  • lilchino4af
    lilchino4af Posts: 1,292 Member
    Leave it set to light... consider the extra cals you burn on those particular days a bonus.
    That's what I would do as well. Set your daily based on the majority of your days, and any extra (waitressing) add as exercise.
  • mommy2js
    mommy2js Posts: 196 Member
    That's what I thought, but I didn't want to add as exercise if it wasn't really. Thanks for the help!
  • Wolfena
    Wolfena Posts: 1,570 Member
    Leave it set to light... consider the extra cals you burn on those particular days a bonus.
    That's what I would do as well. Set your daily based on the majority of your days, and any extra (waitressing) add as exercise.
    I also agree with this
    :smile:
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