Sedentary or lightly active?

Off subject, but how do you manage 12,000 steps a day at a desk job? I work an office job and I average 3000, even though I'm on my feet all day.

I have a desk job - but I also average about 10 to 15,000 steps a day. I walk at the very least 3 miles a day, though, to and from work, so that probably accounts for most of it. I'm also up and down a lot, but not enough to the point where it would be over 10k steps. Most likely, the OP probably does a lot of walking as an outside activity like I do.

I also kind of struggled with this - walking a minimum of 3 miles a day is not what I'd call "sedentary" - but I left mine at that setting and did what sargessexyone suggested - I let my Fitbit add the calories in and I eat to that level.

I've now set mine as "lightly active", though, because I'm also doing C25K and other gym work in addition to the walking. It seems to work for me so far.

I walk to work in the morning (half an hour), spend an hour and ten minutes walking at my lunch break, and walk home in the evening. It usually adds up to about seven and a half miles. I go for a big long walk on a Saturday afternoon/evening (usually about three hours) and then take Sunday off. It averages around 12,000 - my record for one day was about 17,000 and my record low was about 1500.

If you log your walks sedentary, if not I would say lightly active

Okay so im a student.. I walk 1.5kms to university daily. I sit all day. I smh manage to walk nearly 10k steps per day (incl. the treadmill walk) So is it considered sedentary or lightly active ??

If you log the 1.5km and treadmill as exercise I would say sedentary, if you dont lightly active and dont log it.

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Okay so im a student.. I walk 1.5kms to university daily. I sit all day. I smh manage to walk nearly 10k steps per day (incl. the treadmill walk) So is it considered sedentary or lightly active ??

Technically, I would consider that lightly active. I am a stay at home mom with a 5 yr old. I rarely sit longer then 10 mins at a time, I would consider myself lightly active but I have mine set to sedentary and let my fitbit add in any walking I do. With my sedentary setting I get 1200 calories to start the day but as my fitbit adds in activity I usually average 1400-1500 calories per day. Sometimes more.

I think I might leave it as sedentary, then, and let my fitbit work the rest out. And yeah, I maybe confused things by mentioning the desk job - I definitely don't get that amount of steps from being up and down at work! I mentioned it because the sedentary option specifically mentions a desk job, which I have, but I do much more exercise than that.

I have a desk job, i walk from the printer to the fax daily but to me thats still sedentary, I have two 15min breaks where I walk each day. I log these; so since I do becasue I plan on eating those back if needed, i choose the sedentary setting, if I didnt log this 30 brisk walk each day I would set it to lightly active and then log another exercise I do outside of work or normal activity if I wanted to exercise that day.

I'm not sure what to choose as my activity level. I used to use sedentary as I have a desk job, but I'm more active than I used to be and I now average about 12000 steps per day, up from about 5000 before. Any advice?

I found an awesome description of this today. MOST people are NOT sedentary, regardless of whether or not they work at a desk. The website I found described the levels as:

Sedentary - I'm bedridden
Lightly Active - I have a desk job
Moderately Active - I'm a teacher/spend most of my day standing
Heavy active - I work construction, landscaping, or other physically demanding job