Sendentary, lightly active?

I have a desk job as well and by the time my day is over the last thing I want to do is workout for an hour or two. Maybe I should start, but I have sedentary life style, watch my calories and am losing. It recommends me to eat 2,230 cals a day. I typically stick to 2,000 or less, but it's nice to know I have some wiggle room in case I want that little extra snack or alcoholic beverage once or twice a week.

I have a desk job as well, I'm a banker, so I put mine at sendentary since I am sitting most of the day. When I come home I still do chores like cooking, cleaning, laundry, mopping, vacuuming, light dusting, etc. I don't however consider this when I log things in, I know it is work and can be quite tiring, I just don't consider this as activity.

I would choose sedentary given your description.

The way I understood it was:
Sedentary: Stationary and easy movements throughout the day.
Lightly active: Spend most of the time standing or moving about.
Active: Constantly moving about and carrying or moving items, playing sports.

Well, I wouldn't be concerned over 9 days.

Sedentary is everything up to 5000 steps per day. When I stayed home and did chores I was lightly active. Now I work at a desk so I'm sedentary unless I make an effort. The important thing is to adjust based on your results so if you're not losing then going to sedentary might be the right move. But again, 9 days does not a plateau make.

I'd call it lightly active. I assume you've had it set to that since the get-go and were losing?

Looking at your diary for the last couple of weeks, I see a number of "over" days and at least one "quick add calories". Not sure what your weight loss goals are, but if you're shooting for a slow loss it doesn't take much overage to swing from "slow loss" to "no loss". You might want to go to "reports" and look at your net calories for the last couple of weeks -- you might find you're a bit over where you think you were.

OTOH, a nine-day stall isn't uncommon, especially if you're having bloating from your period or excessive salt intake.

I had the same question when I started because I have a very sedentary job, and sometimes my entertainment at home is the computer or Netflix rather than anything active. So I took the guesswork out of it by getting a fitness tracker. I have a Bodymedia, and I set MFP to sedentary and just let the Bodymedia make adjustments based on how active I am on a particular day. It's quite motivating, as I like seeing all the checkmarks when I reach my goals on the Bodymedia app, but also, if I want a little something extra to eat, I can just take a walk or jog or go for a bike ride and still stay within my limit. Knowing how much you actually burn on a daily basis is extremely helpful.

I have a desk job as well, I'm a banker, so I put mine at sendentary since I am sitting most of the day. When I come home I still do chores like cooking, cleaning, laundry, mopping, vacuuming, light dusting, etc. I don't however consider this when I log things in, I know it is work and can be quite tiring, I just don't consider this as activity.

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I had the same question when I started because I have a very sedentary job, and sometimes my entertainment at home is the computer or Netflix rather than anything active. So I took the guesswork out of it by getting a fitness tracker. I have a Bodymedia, and I set MFP to sedentary and just let the Bodymedia make adjustments based on how active I am on a particular day. It's quite motivating, as I like seeing all the checkmarks when I reach my goals on the Bodymedia app, but also, if I want a little something extra to eat, I can just take a walk or jog or go for a bike ride and still stay within my limit. Knowing how much you actually burn on a daily basis is extremely helpful.

Same, except I used a Fitbit. I assumed I was sedentary based on the descriptions (desk job), but found that the walking I do to commute and go places for meetings and such and to shop (I live in a city, so one of my first things when deciding to get into shape was to just walk everywhere I possibly could) made me easily lightly active (I usually hit 10,000 or close). Seeing it on the Fitbit really helped, but I bet any pedometer or app that counts steps and lets you see how much you are moving would serve the same basic purpose.

The OP's description sounds like lightly active to me, but I agree with adjusting based on results.

Sendentary unless you are walking ? a couple miles a day.

When I first started logging on mfp I wasn't patient at all right now I'm also a stay at home mom so I do laundry etc...and when I feel up to it I walk a few times a wk for about an hr (2 miles) and at first I didn't notice anything until about day 15 of logging which was about last week and I lost 3 almost 4 pounds maybe more at this point it's ttom so I didn't check my weight this week what I'm trying to say is be patient I know it's so hard but just keep going and you will see results. I'm also set at sendentary I didn't know it was a lightly active but in my opinion I don't think it will matter I'm set at 1310 cal. A day and when I walk it goes up. But just eat well And don't give up. I hope I helped somebody. I should be telling myself these things as well.