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Chef_Barbell wrote: »Personal preference.
This. I have a fairly active job that sometimes gets me 15,000+ steps. I'd rather set myself to lightly active to give me a larger base and smaller adjustment than sedentary would give.1 -
How come if I set to sedentary fitbit gives me more negative calories than at lightly active?0
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I have an hr charge Fitbit. I am lightly active when I am not working out or walking for excercise. On a day that I'm not working out I may get 3,000-7,000 steps. If I'm excercising I may have 10,000-14,000 steps. I see that many people set their activity level to sedentary even when they are not. Is this just a personal preference or is their a benefit to weight loss doing this?
IF using a Fitbit/connected to MFP: it does not really matter a Fitbit communicates your true activity level to MFP.
But in general, I think people are afraid of over estimating and thus eating too much. If you say you are lightly active and you are actually sedentary: you're not burning as much as MFP assumes.0 -
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I would rather have extra for dessert on a good day than realize I can't eat half of my dinner.5
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My activity levels vary wildly by day - weekdays I usually hit 12-15k, closer to 20k if I do an exercise class or two.
On weekends I can easily get under 1000 steps if I'm having a really lazy day (often feels necessary after a full on week).
Setting to sedantary gives me a nice healthy bank of exercise calories to use over the whole week and a lazy day doesn't end up reducing my calorie pool - psychologically that works best for me.2 -
I use sedentary because MFP's calorie allowance isn't enough for me as very active. So I let Fitbit work out my exercise calories instead & eat them back.0
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MommyMeggo wrote: ».
So SCREW THE FITBITS! - well for me anyway.
I had the same experience and came to the same conclusion. Fitbit gave too many calories for incidental daily steps. Estimates for walks and runs we're in line with others, but you can use any number of phone apps just as easily.0 -
I have an hr charge Fitbit. I am lightly active when I am not working out or walking for excercise. On a day that I'm not working out I may get 3,000-7,000 steps. If I'm excercising I may have 10,000-14,000 steps. I see that many people set their activity level to sedentary even when they are not. Is this just a personal preference or is their a benefit to weight loss doing this?
Because most of us have desk jobs. We don't have a higher activity level unless we actively go out and do something (which will vary, and can be logged separately, and potentially might not happen at all).2 -
I'm more lightly active/active, but have mfp set to sedentary. Any steps i do above 2,000ish is purposeful exercise.
The reasons I'm set at sedentary:- I have my fitbit synced, so it will adjust my activity level automatically.
- I hate seeing negative adjustments on lazy days.
- Setting my activity level higher puts too much pressure on me to hit that level each and every day. I'm already obsessed with getting my steps in, i don't need more pressure.
- I go to bed early, at sedentary i lose around 60 calories every night. At lightly active that number shot up to around 200. I'd hate to think how far in the negative I'd go if i was set at Active. Losing all of those calories kinda negates upping my activity level in the first place.
- I prelog my day every morning, 9 times out of 10 I'm in the red. It shows me clearly how much exercise i need to do to get back in the green.
- If i do decide to have a sloth day, I can rest at ease eating my sedentary calories and not worry that I'm eating too much. Although negative adjustments handle this, it still bugs me.
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None..if I get over 10,000 steps I'm getting about 300-400 extra at mildly active at sendetary I get like 600-700 extra at the same steps0 -
You are getting more **positive/additional** calories at Sedentary than at Mildly Active. Which is the way it should be.
None..if I get over 10,000 steps I'm getting about 300-400 extra at mildly active at sendetary I get like 600-700 extra at the same steps
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Mine is set to "sedentary" because I drive a mouse for a living. I've often logged multiple hours of cardio, but that is not of day-to-day consistency. Rather than tring to figure out how much less to eat when I don't exercise, I just figure out how much more to eat when I do. It's more fun that way.3
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Rather than tring to figure out how much less to eat when I don't exercise, I just figure out how much more to eat when I do. It's more fun that way.
I concur
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Rebecca0224 wrote: »I set mine to sedentary because my activity level varies. Most days I do over 12000 steps but because of medical problems some days it will be under 3000.
Do you set it this way just because you don't want to see negative adjustments?
No I do it this way because sometimes I have a day or week when I get appropriately 3000 steps. I let my Garmin adjust for my activity. If my activity level was more consistent I would adjust it to that level.1 -
I set mine as sedentary because I know I can't log accurately, so this hopefully compensates a little. I only log the exercise for which I go out of my way, like going for a run.
Also because, to be honest, walking 5 mins from home to Tube station then from station to work doesn't register as 'lightly active' to me (or it would only if I was bed-ridden).1 -
I'm one of those people who set my diary to sedentary and then let my fitbit adjust as the day goes on. But... I have a desk job.1
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I work from home. On the sofa. Often, in bed. I average 2000 steps, but my record low day was 75 steps. I'm sedentary.0
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None..if I get over 10,000 steps I'm getting about 300-400 extra at mildly active at sendetary I get like 600-700 extra at the same steps
Those aren't negative calories, those are positive adjustments - you do more you burn more you eat more.
If MFP already expected you to do more, the adjustment isn't as high.
That's exactly as it should be.
Are you trying to describe something else perchance, or just got the terms wrong?0 -
Because some days I may only have 3,000 steps while other days I have 12,000. It's so much easier to set it as sedentary and then get positive adjustment calories on higher activity days than bouncing around with positive and negative calories.
I'm also still trying to work out how accurate my Fitbit calorie burn is for me. This is most easily done when you start off at a base setting (at least for me).2
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