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joshgray3605
joshgray3605 Posts: 1 Member
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Are there any specifics about what is considered “Very Active”, “Active”, “Lightly Active”, etc. Types of jobs, amount of activity, etc?

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  • RunnerGrl1982
    RunnerGrl1982 Posts: 412 Member
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    Hey there! Here's a list for MFP when setting your activity level:

    Sedentary: Spend most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)
    Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesperson)
    Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. food server, postal carrier)
    Very Active: Spend most of the day doing heavy physical activity (e.g. bike messenger, carpenter)

    You should roughly go by these definitions when setting up your MFP profile, as your calorie deficit or gain will be based upon the number it calculates for you prior to any exercise. If you do exercise, you are meant to eat a portion or all of your exercise calories back, on top of the calories MFP has given to you.

  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
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    IF you have a fitbit or count steps with your phone, the general categories used to define your basic activity level are:
    Under 5000 steps a day: Sedentary
    5000-7500 = "Low active"
    7500 - 9,999 = "somewhat active"
    10,000-12,499 - "active"
    12,500 and up - "Highly active.'

    NOte that this is just the cutoffs used in many research studies that put accelerometers on people and then studied what kinds of health went with different numbers of steps. Those are the cutoffs they chose, but they get re-used in part because they do seem to correlate with a variety of other health markers.

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