Activity level?

kgoyt
kgoyt Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
I am wondering what I should choose as my activity level on my fitness pal. I workout 6 days a week for about an hour to an hour and a half and I am a full time student. Would this be lightly active or active?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Your activity level on MFP includes everything you do throughout the day EXCEPT exercise. You would most likely fall under either sedentary or lightly active.
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    To be on the safer side, choose sedentary (student life) and add your workouts as you do them.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    As commented above - those activity levels have nothing to do with exercise.

    Don't let the fact you also enter in your fitness goals at the same time as your diet goals fool you - there is NO math between the 2.

    Full time student walking between classes all day?
    Lightly active.

    Sedentary is 45 hr desk job/commute, no kids or pets to have you standing cleaning longer than small amount, no long times shopping.
    But classes you are walking more than that, and probably a tad more active with friends at other times.

    Exercise is added when actually done.

    MFP subtracts a deficit from non-exercise day estimated burn to give you eating goal.
    When you do more, and subtract the same, of course you eat more.

    And working out 6 x weekly for that long (don't imagine the exercise will cause weight loss, diet does), you'll rarely eat that goal amount MFP gives you, because once you log exercise, you'll always be eating more to keep the same deficit.

    And don't imagine eating even less is smart or better, it's not.
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