I have absolutely no clue how many calories I burn at work.

LegendOfBlake
LegendOfBlake Posts: 36 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I do janitorial and cashiering/food preparation at my job. Janitorial is going from place to place and sweeping up, picking up rubbish, and moving on to the next place. Cashiering/food prep is running around and serving things. It's almost constant stop/go walking. Today I came home and felt exhausted after an 8 hour shift, but I still have no clue how many calories I burned and I have no way of knowing.

My goal (5'8", 158lb) is 1600 calories a day. I can eat 1200 a day and be fine, but with everything I do at work, I worry about aiming for 1200 calories. I'm currently "lightly active" and set to lose "1.5 lb/wk" on my settings. I want to eat 1200-1600 but I don't want to eat over to compensate either. So what am I to do?

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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Change your settings to "Active"
  • westcoastgrl21
    westcoastgrl21 Posts: 172 Member
    Choose a calorie goal. Eat at that level for a week, and see what happens. If you don't lose enough, bring your calories down. Lose too much, eat more. Simple.
  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    westcoastgrl21 wrote: »
    Choose a calorie goal. Eat at that level for a week, and see what happens. If you don't lose enough, bring your calories down. Lose too much, eat more. Simple.

    Good advice, except a week isn't really ling enough to evaluate whether something is working. Try 3 or 4 weeks.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    You've got a healthy BMI

    What are your goals?

    No man should drop below 1500 calories

    You could get a basic fitbit like a one or zip to track your daily activity and synch calories to MFP
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