Different activity levels on different days?

kittyy250
kittyy250 Posts: 31 Member
edited December 2 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone
I'm new here but I was wondering if there is a way that you can change your activity level depending on the day.
I am on my feet all day at work so I have put active, but what about the 2-3 days I don't work a week- will this cause me to gain weight If I eat the same?
Thanks :)

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    If you are truly very active on your work days and not completely sedentary on your off days, you should be fine. Or you could set yourself to lightly active. What is your job?
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    edited July 2016
    I tend to ignore being on my feet at work (I lecture in a college) - I reckon that it averages out over the week as I don't think I burn that much just by standing up in a classroom.

    On the other hand, if you're something like a nurse or police officer who does a lot of active walking onshift, you could always log it as exercise (walking) but you might have to take your activity level down a notch. My understanding is that an activity level of "very active" already assumes something like vigorous walking at work.

    ETA you can always adjust your eating without adjusting your goal - go a bit over on active days, a bit under on quiet days, and monitor your weekly total or weekly average instead of going day by day.
  • kittyy250
    kittyy250 Posts: 31 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    If you are truly very active on your work days and not completely sedentary on your off days, you should be fine. Or you could set yourself to lightly active. What is your job?

    I work in an aged care facility so am constantly rushing around, lifting etc
    Enough to work up a sweat!
  • kittyy250
    kittyy250 Posts: 31 Member
    I've put my activity level as lightly active so hopefully it balances out
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I would get an activity tracker, I have a fitbit. Sync it to mfp and let it do the math for you. This way you won't need to do any guessing games about your activity level on the days you do or don't work.
  • AussiePeach
    AussiePeach Posts: 49 Member
    I'm in a similar position, because three days a week I'm a domestic cleaner workout up a sweat vaccumning and mopping, and two days a week I'm either studying or in the field doing soil sampling for prac. I've decided to set my activity at lightly active and to log half to three quarters of my cleaning as light exercise.
  • dlcshan
    dlcshan Posts: 45 Member
    edited July 2016
    I work at a gas station where if I'm not actively ringing people up, I'm supposed to be getting stuff done. So I do a lot of walking back and forth and on some days carrying cases of beverages to restock the cooler which then can include a fair amount of lifting, bending and twisting. Also depending on whether I close or not, I could have to sweep and mop all the floors as well. But then on the days I don't work, I'm fairly sedentary. So I left my activity level as sedentary and then used the calorielab.com value for my weight doing "Standing on the job, light work" for 6 of the 7 or 8 hours that I work.
  • selfepidemic1
    selfepidemic1 Posts: 159 Member
    I eat really small portions during none busy days, and on busy days eat huge portions. I need it because I have to run, dance, sing, etc. I need the energy and its too difficult to do with not enough food.

    So when I have easy days, about 900/1000 cals, on heavy days 1500-1800, it actually evens out to about 1200 and I'm not miserable.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,699 Member
    I have myself set at sedentary and then I add my exercise in on top of that.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    I have myself set at sedentary and then I add my exercise in on top of that.

    Yeah me too, this seems to be the most simple way to do it.
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