Guess my Activity Level? Please

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ferd_ttp5
ferd_ttp5 Posts: 246 Member
edited May 2017 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok can you guest my Activity Level any help is good :)
I average 6000-7000 steps a day not including any exercise, I exercise 30-60 4x a week doing cycling or jogging/walk and I lift 14 pounds dumbells inside my room, I rarely sitting. I'm confusing that If I should go for Lightly active or Active. Thanks

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,442 Member
    edited May 2017
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    Lightly active, and then eat back some of the calories from the cycling/jogging.
  • missmagnoliablossom
    missmagnoliablossom Posts: 240 Member
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    What sort of job do you do?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    i get about 6000 and call myself sedentary
  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
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    TavistockToad wrote: »
    i get about 6000 and call myself sedentary

    I did this too and it worked well. Now, at maintenance I've changed to lightly active and eat back only some of my exercise calories. Seems to be working well.
  • ferd_ttp5
    ferd_ttp5 Posts: 246 Member
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    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    What sort of job do you do?
    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    What sort of job do you do?
    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside

    yet you only get 6000 steps a day?
  • ferd_ttp5
    ferd_ttp5 Posts: 246 Member
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    TavistockToad wrote: »
    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    What sort of job do you do?
    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside

    yet you only get 6000 steps a day?
    Yes, At morning I'm going for walk to go to coffee shop and at 12:00 I clean the house, 1:00-4:00 I'm staying outside with a friend going anywhere we want by walking and so the day goes on I get 6000-7000 steps a day no doubt maybe I'm not stay at home, I'm stay at my place haha

  • xchocolategirl
    xchocolategirl Posts: 186 Member
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    Yeah I agree with the others who mentioned lightly active.
  • missmagnoliablossom
    missmagnoliablossom Posts: 240 Member
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    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    What sort of job do you do?
    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside

    yet you only get 6000 steps a day?
    Yes, At morning I'm going for walk to go to coffee shop and at 12:00 I clean the house, 1:00-4:00 I'm staying outside with a friend going anywhere we want by walking and so the day goes on I get 6000-7000 steps a day no doubt maybe I'm not stay at home, I'm stay at my place haha

    I work a desk job and I get the same, if not more, steps. So... confusion.
  • KristenNagle1
    KristenNagle1 Posts: 83 Member
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    I wish I had that job
  • xchocolategirl
    xchocolategirl Posts: 186 Member
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    I made a typo I meant sedentary would be a good activity level I would place you at.
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    edited May 2017
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    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    ferd_ttp5 wrote: »
    missmagnoliablossom wrote: »
    What sort of job do you do?
    Stay at home, rarely sitting always going outside

    yet you only get 6000 steps a day?
    Yes, At morning I'm going for walk to go to coffee shop and at 12:00 I clean the house, 1:00-4:00 I'm staying outside with a friend going anywhere we want by walking and so the day goes on I get 6000-7000 steps a day no doubt maybe I'm not stay at home, I'm stay at my place haha

    So, are your steps just from when you're actively walking then? You're not counting steps around the house?

    6,000-7,000 steps/day is "lightly active". Log workouts as extra but probably only eat back half the calories if you're using MFP's numbers for calorie burns. Don't log your usual walks as exercise because you're already including them in your activity level.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 13,637 Member
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    I am confused. Moderate walking is around 100 steps a minute. Your three hour walks with friends should, by themselves, produce more than 10k steps even at a slowish pace.

    Lightly active tops out at ~7k steps.

    So the activity level you select depends on how many of the things you list you are planning to log as separate exercises.

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