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I'm wondering what to put on my actively levels on this app?

cool_gurls
cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Well workout 6 days a week I go to the the gym I cycle to the gym I cycle 6.4miles a day and workout 5 days a week at the gym and go on for long walk for 2 hours one day a week. Please could you help what should be actively level ?

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  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    how active are you when you are not at the gym - what sort of work do you do?
  • cool_gurls
    cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
    I have a desk job and I walk the dogs for 45 minutes everyday after work cardio and weights
  • cool_gurls
    cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
    I have a desk job and I walk the dogs for 45 minutes everyday after work I do cardio and weights I spend 30 minutes to 1 hour at gym
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    cool_gurls wrote: »
    I have a desk job and I walk the dogs for 45 minutes everyday after work cardio and weights

    Sedentary. MFP's activity level doesn't include exercise.
  • cool_gurls
    cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
    What does mfps mean
  • cool_gurls
    cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
    I saw this website http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/ladyhawk00/view/activity-level-and-logging-exercise-125513 I think I burn about 500 calories a day
  • CorneliusPhoton
    CorneliusPhoton Posts: 965 Member
    MFP = My Fitness Pal (this site).
    I personally prefer to put myself down as sedentary and then log all of my activity. But start wherever you think is best and gauge it by how successful you are week to week. You can always tweak it.
  • cool_gurls
    cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
    I'm only trying to lose 6 pounds or 8 pound I will be happy
  • cool_gurls
    cool_gurls Posts: 7 Member
    So I'm not active then ??
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    MFP doesn;t count purposeful exercise as part of their calorie recommendation - but rather you eat calories back

    if you wanted something more static where you didn't eat back calories, you could look at a TDEE calculator that factors in workouts
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    cool_gurls wrote: »
    I have a desk job and I walk the dogs for 45 minutes everyday after work cardio and weights

    Sedentary. MFP's activity level doesn't include exercise.

    Depends on whether or not she wants to log the 45 minute walk every day and the 6.5 miles cycling every day. If she wants her activity level to include those so that she doesn't have to log them, she's looking at somewhere in the ballpark of "active" (maybe "lightly active" if it's a slow 45 minute walk). If she wants to log those on a daily basis, "sedentary" would probably be the right choice.
  • sunflowerhippi
    sunflowerhippi Posts: 1,099 Member
    You have 2 options.

    Set as sedentary and then log every workout you do. I would skip logging the slow walk of the dog to balance any logging inaccuracy.

    OR

    Use a TDEE method, add up total hours you workout and then eat the same daily and NOT log you workout.
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