not very active or lightly active?

Do you have a way to track how many steps you take eg. phone with a tracking app? Why do you walk a lot during the day eg. mailperson or stay at home mum or the printer is at the other side of the office? You havent given us much to work with.

Eg. I have a full time desk job so I would usually put myself down as sedentary. I however also have 3 young kids so by the end of the day I usually clock up around 7,000 steps. I am very rarely below 5,000 steps.

Guidelines will vary here's one I found online.

Sedentary = <5000 step
Low Active = 5000-7499 steps
Somewhat Active = 7500-9999 step
Active = 10000-12499 steps
Highly Active = 12500+ steps

I say leave it on sedentary and use that as a buffer zone, but that's me.

Pam_1965 wrote: »

I am set to Lightly Active. I am a teacher. If you are using a step tracker, I don't think it actually matters what you set yourself to. As soon as you hit the MFP expectation for your activity level you start earning calories back. If I set myself to Sedentary I start with fewer calories to eat (1200), but quickly hit the activity level mark and start earning back calories. If I am at Lightly Active I start with more calories (1350), but it takes longer to surpass that activity level. In the end I think I eat the same amount with either setting.

This is basically what I was going to say. I've found that it pretty much evens out whether you choose sedentary or lightly active.

I've set myself to sedentary and eaten about half of my exercise calories back, and I've set to lightly active and eaten none back (unless I had an unusually active day). The number is just about the same.