Active or very active?

AngeleyesJo
AngeleyesJo Posts: 191 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm unsure if my job makes me active or very active. I work with medical files, which can be heavy. I spend most my day on my feet running around a big library running up and down stairs, lifting heavy boxes, carrying heavy files, loading files on a conveyor belt, not sure if this is classed as very active or active?

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  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    I'd probably start active and see for a month then adjust

    Do you have a Fitbit or anything that tracks steps?
  • AngeleyesJo
    AngeleyesJo Posts: 191 Member
    I tracked it once and was burning about 350 calories a day not sure on steps
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,378 Member
    350 Cal is a pretty short shift of carrying boxes around.

    Steps would be a good indication even though they don't account for the weights.

    I've heard of an 8 hour warehouse shift not cracking 6000 steps (an hour's walk), and another that regularly cracked 40,000.

    Pick either and adjust based on trending weight results after a few weeks.

    If working continuously I would go with very active. Possibly even add an exercise on top. If some inactivity maybe just active will be enough to capture what you do.
  • AngeleyesJo
    AngeleyesJo Posts: 191 Member
    That figure was just off top of my head from last time I monitored.
  • AngeleyesJo
    AngeleyesJo Posts: 191 Member
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I agree with starting with active and see what the scales do after a few weeks
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,378 Member
    One day does not determine your average. 10,900 steps on your phone without carrying weights would put you well into the mid levels of the active category. Carrying weights would move you in very active. Of course your logging of food is likely to be off too when starting up.

    As many have said pick one and adjust after a month depending on how you're feeling and your rate of loss.

    If trying to lose weight (and while not losing weight too fast) the conservative answer would be set to active and re-evaluate.
  • hedwardsb
    hedwardsb Posts: 201 Member
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.
  • rmgnow
    rmgnow Posts: 375 Member
    If you want to be conservative go for sedentary
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Just pick one and use real world results to adjust as necessary.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    hedwardsb wrote: »
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.

    10000 steps is light active, isn't it?
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    Just pick one and see how the numbers look after a month. I've had to adjust my activity level upward a couple of times because the rate I was losing weight wasn't lining up with the MFP predictions. It's all educated guesswork and the only way to know what works for you is just to start somewhere.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    edited September 2017
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    hedwardsb wrote: »
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.

    10000 steps is light active, isn't it?

    No, very on MFP. Sedentary is about 2500 and 2500 increments after. I know there are people who get in 15k steps a day who realised they were losing too quickly because the levels are lower on MFP than the "guides" elsewhere.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    hedwardsb wrote: »
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.

    10000 steps is light active, isn't it?

    No, very on MFP. Sedentary is about 2500 and 1500 increments after. I know there are people who get in 15k steps a day who realised they were losing too quickly because the levels are lower on MFP than the "guides" elsewhere.

    Really? I thought sedentary was 6000 or under...?
  • misnomer1
    misnomer1 Posts: 646 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    hedwardsb wrote: »
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.

    10000 steps is light active, isn't it?

    I average 4000-5000 steps on Google fit. Plus maybe 2000-4000 odd because I don't carry my phone around all the time. 40 day weight data and my Intake analysis puts me around 'active'.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    hedwardsb wrote: »
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.

    10000 steps is light active, isn't it?

    No, very on MFP. Sedentary is about 2500 and 1500 increments after. I know there are people who get in 15k steps a day who realised they were losing too quickly because the levels are lower on MFP than the "guides" elsewhere.

    Really? I thought sedentary was 6000 or under...?

    Nope. I start getting extra at over 2000 steps so I just generalise to 2500 (and there was a thread recently where another couple of people said the same).
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    I'm set to "active." I get at least 10,000 outside of purposeful exercise even with my desk job. (I walk from building to building carrying computer and files, sometimes running and there are hills/stairs).
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,378 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    hedwardsb wrote: »
    AngeleyesJo wrote: »
    Found some data on my phone health app on Friday I did 10900 steps

    That's about what I hit daily, and I consider myself "active," but I'm not carrying boxes.

    10000 steps is light active, isn't it?

    Nope @TavistockToad

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14715035

    i). <5000 steps/day may be used as a 'sedentary lifestyle index';
    (ii). 5000-7499 steps/day is typical of daily activity excluding sports/exercise and might be considered 'low active';
    (iii). 7500-9999 likely includes some volitional activities (and/or elevated occupational activity demands) and might be considered 'somewhat active';
    and
    (iv). >or=10000 steps/day indicates the point that should be used to classify individuals as 'active'. Individuals who take >12500 steps/day are likely to be classified as 'highly active'.

    MFP sedentary = (i)
    MFP lightly active = (ii)-(iii)
    MFP active = (iii)-(iv)
    MFP very active = (iv)+ (12500+)
    MFP very active ends at about 15,500
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