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Time to change my activity level?

missiontofitness
missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Figured I'd get some input from members.

I work a desk job three days per week. Every day that I go to work, I get at least 30min minimum of walking in (going back and forth to work, leaving and coming back on my break, ect), and that doesn't count extra runs/walks I fit in during the week. I can be on my feet in the office, but generally I'm just sitting at the comp around 6 hours per day, with the occasional sprint across the office.

I burned over 900 additional calories total from last week's exercise, and I'll probably be around 600-700 by tomorrow. I logged 200+ minutes of exercise last week, and after today's run/walk, I'll have logged around 150 minutes of exercise so far this week. I've definitely gotten more active, and I'm not sure that the "lightly active" activity level fits me anymore. The jump in calories is around 200, and my macros also get a pretty good spike as well from changing to "active".

What do ya'll think?

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  • writer4him
    writer4him Posts: 225 Member
    I am joining in this discussion to see the answers because I have changed my activity level about 6 times in the past two weeks because I really can't decide how many calories I should be eating!

    I think in your case, it looks like it depends on whether or not you are adding the activity you are doing as exercise. If you are, you probably shouldn't change your activity level. But if you aren't tracking all that movement as exercise, maybe you should...
  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    I am joining in this discussion to see the answers because I have changed my activity level about 6 times in the past two weeks because I really can't decide how many calories I should be eating!

    I think in your case, it looks like it depends on whether or not you are adding the activity you are doing as exercise. If you are, you probably shouldn't change your activity level. But if you aren't tracking all that movement as exercise, maybe you should...

    I've been tracking the back and forth from work as exercise, because I've treated it like exercise; one of the few chances during the day that I have to be on my feet, so I try to power walk each way at least around 3-3.5MPH.
    I did fiddle around with mine a little; I set it as active, but as a 1lb per week loss instead of the .5lb/week loss at lightly active I had before. It spiked up my macros, but kept me at the current calorie level I'm at now. I'm wondering if I should test this out, because I've been wanting to up my protein lately, and that one had a pretty big spike.
  • paulandrachelk
    paulandrachelk Posts: 280 Member
    I also am a sedentary lift style according to all the data I can find. Don't count walking around the office as exercise but as part of daily routine. Don't count getting to work either but walk is very short and don't power walk it. Do count stairs/walk I do during break/lunch as that is not part of a normal routine for me. It seems the definitions of liftstyles include routine activity we do so if getting to the office nudges you into a higher level-just do it.

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