Sedentary... not logging daily walks

Kittyy1994
Kittyy1994 Posts: 108 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all, I have a desk job so not much movement throughout the day however I walk my dog 30 min in morning and 30 min at night.

I have my activity level set at sedentary and calories is around 1500 as not much to lose. Should I:
a) eat at maintenance (around 1750) and not log walks and let the hour a day create the deficit or
b) raise my activity level to lightly active and eat at deficit?

I don’t have a way of counting how many calories I am burning each walk....

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  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    edited June 2019
    There's no right way to do this so your best bet is experiment.

    Use option A for 3-4 weeks and monitor your progress and results. Did it work? Are you losing faster or slower than predicted? Does this approach feel natural to you and easy to stick to?

    Depending on the answers to those questions you can continue doing what's working, adjust option A and see how that goes, try option B, try a combination of them both.

    There's no better indication of what you should do than the results you're seeing from what you are doing.
  • Clarisse_McClellan
    Clarisse_McClellan Posts: 44 Member
    Danp is pretty much correct in what he's saying. I just wanted to add that you could use a free walking app, like Map My Walk or Endomondo to get an estimated calorie burn for your walks. These are free to download and try out, although they also have an option to upgrade for more bells and whistles. I'm a cheapskate, so I don't do that.
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