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Should I Change My Activity Level

GogglesOff
GogglesOff Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been steadily losing weight since January 2015 with 27lbs lost.

I got a Fitbit and built up the steps where I have been walking 10miles (25k steps) at least 5 times a week.

I changed my activity setting from sedentary to lightly active. Is this correct? At the moment, I do no other exercise, just the walking.

Thanks in advance.

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  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    It doesn't really matter. You're just moving how exercise is accounted for from one bucket to another.

    IMO, if you are progressing on track toward your goal, you're probably eating the right amount. If not, you probably need to adjust what you eat up or down.
  • Merlinthevet
    Merlinthevet Posts: 2 Member
    The risk seems to be double accounting. If I understand correctly then either stay with the sedentary lifestyle but link Fitbit to transfer the exercise calories burnt, or change to an active lifestyle but decouple the Fitbit.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,538 Member
    edited July 2015
    Enable negative adjustments.

    Set yourself up at the highest activity level in mfp.

    Leave a buffer if you are not active late at night or sleep before midnight cause you will get a calorie reduction after you dip below the active expenditure rate when you stop moving around.

    Or stay at the sedentary or lightly active levels and continue to have large adjustments at the end of day.

    It is a matter of preference of how you prefer your adjustments to happen.

    I personally prefer a smaller rather than larger end of day adjustment. I have not yet had a day where I logged 15750+ steps and did not get a positive adjustment. Negatives are commonon days below 12500.


    You should cross reference to your actual weight loss to see if these estimates are correct for you.

    While for many people their Fitbit tdee estimate is correct, in my case I believe it is overestimated by about 5 percent so eating my full fitbit adjustment results in a slightly slower weight loss than what I've dialed in. Which is perfectly ok for me!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    GogglesOff wrote: »
    I got a Fitbit and built up the steps where I have been walking 10miles (25k steps) at least 5 times a week.

    I changed my activity setting from sedentary to lightly active. Is this correct?

    If (and only if) you enable negative calorie adjustments in your diary settings, it's entirely a matter of personal preference: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • GauchoMark
    GauchoMark Posts: 1,804 Member
    all good advice. Enable negative adjustments and nothing to worry about.

    Personally, I prefer to leave it at sedentary so the fitbit adds calories. I hate seeing negative adjustments!
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    i dont use a fitbit (just putting that out there)

    i am at a minimum lightly active and in all realty probably active. but i leave mine at sedentary. I figure it helps cover any inaccurate logging or forgotten 'bites' of things or overestimated calorie burns, etc. I lose a pretty steady 2 lbs/ week so I'm good
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