Where would you put my activity level for TDEE??

cassienoe · August 2013

So I work at a desk 8 hours a day. I get up for bathroom breaks etc or deliver files or whatever but not a ton of walking. After work I am doing the 30 day shred. Planning on taking a break from the shred over the weekend and maybe just walk or hike or maybe even do nothing at all and just having a real rest day. Not sure what activity level I should choose for my TDEE? Suggestions?

KezzRezz · August 2013

I'd put your activity level as sedentry, then log your exercises seperately. That's the most accurate way, that way if you miss a day of the shred or whatever, you can account for it!

PunkinSpice79 · August 2013

I'd put your activity level as sedentry, then log your exercises seperately. That's the most accurate way, that way if you miss a day of the shred or whatever, you can account for it!

That's what I do. Totally agree.

lporter229 · August 2013

I agree with sedentary and adding exercise calories back. You will get the most accurate idea of how many calories you burn doing 30DS if you have a heart rate monitor, but you can find some on line estimators for your specific weight.

cassienoe · August 2013

That is actually what I was doing! And switched to TDEE because I thought it would be simpler. I'm not exactly sure how many cals I'm burning doing the shred. I have a bluetooth HRM and I was using MapMyFitness to log the workouts. Under "other workout video" it said I burned 125 cals and doing the exact same workout under "circuit training:cardio" it said I burned 282! So something is definitely screwed up and I think it's calculating my calories based on the workout chosen and I'm pretty sure my heart rate has nothing to do with it!

AJ_G · August 2013

For TDEE, I'd say probably 1.3 activity multiplier from your BMR

taunto · August 2013

Reduce guess work by using this for calculating TDEE
http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html

Where would you put my activity level for TDEE??

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