Activity level setting

2u4life
2u4life Posts: 4 Member
edited November 27 in Health and Weight Loss
What is considered non active vs light activity to set up settings?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Not very active/sedentary=desk job. Lightly active=on your feet a bit (teacher, etc.). Exercise isn't included in activity level.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    If your job involves sitting for 1 hour interrupted by no more than 5 minutes of walking, you are sedentary.
    If your job involves walking and standing for a shift, you are lightly active.
    If your job involves walking and light lifting, you are active.
    If your job involves walking and heavy lifting, you are very active.

    A school teacher, for instance, is active. An Amazon fulfillment worker is very active.
    A stay home mom with a young child is active.
  • snemberton
    snemberton Posts: 175 Member
    I have a desk job and sit a lot. But I also work from home, so on my lunch and breaks, I'm up doing chores, running errands and playing with the pets. I’m also relatively active in the evenings too. This puts me almost lightly active outside of intentional exercise. I’m losing pretty much at the expected rate for lightly active. (And eating back most of my exercise calories.)

    If you fall between like I do, set it for one and assess a few weeks later if you are losing on target or too fast/slow. Or if you have a tracker like an Apple Watch, you can get a more accurate TDEE and play around with manually setting your calories.
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