Activity level for 10,000 steps a day?

Kittyy1994
Kittyy1994 Posts: 108 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi there I go for a walk both before and after work and average around 10,000 steps a day. Otherwise I am office based during the week. What activity level should I use? I don’t have a fit bit or anythinf to know how much I am burning so an approximate activity level compared with other similar people would be good.
I am female, 168cm and 63kg if that helps

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  • Speckle38
    Speckle38 Posts: 53 Member
    I am similar height, weight and activity level. I have mine set to lightly active. On my non-working days, I easily double my step count.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    10000 steps is active - normally 0-5000 sedentary; 5000-8500 lightly active and 8500+ active
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    deannalfisher wrote: »
    10000 steps is active - normally 0-5000 sedentary; 5000-8500 lightly active and 8500+ active

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  • scarlett_k
    scarlett_k Posts: 812 Member
    If I put myself as active based on my steps I would gain weight. I average 15k a day and I'm supposedly lightly active despite not feeling it! Been doing this 3 years and at this point I'm 100% confident it's not a massive margin of error in my food logging. It's not a hard and fast rule, just experiment, pick a level and use it as a guide for 6 weeks or so and see what works for you.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    Are you logging the walks you do before and after work as exercise?

    If so, how many of your steps come from those walks?

    Your mfp activity setting should be what you do not including anything you log as exercise. That may not match your overall activity level.

    For example-I average 12k steps a day. That’s active. 9k of those steps come from my runs which are logged as exercise. I only take about 3k steps a day not including exercise (I work a desk job at home). So while I am quite active overall, my mfp activity setting is sedentary (because it’s based on whatever I do that isn’t logged as exercise).

    If you’re not logging your walks as exercise, ignore this and go by the total step counts given above.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,419 Member
    welllllll as you can see we are all over the place on answers.


    I am retired and live in a tiny condo so not a lot of chores. Most days I get around 10,000 steps including a walk around the neighborhood with a few hills. I am eating at the Active level and that's about right.


    I think you'll have to experiment a bit. There are many factors, not the least of which is - how accurately are you logging your food and other intentional exercise? There are errors we all make and you'll have to come up with your own calories by tracking for a couple months. It's the only way.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,859 Member
    I have my MFP set to active and I tip over from negative calorie adjustments at about 7500 steps, give or take. 10k steps starts pushing me into a small positive calorie adjustment.

    Garmin is trying to tell me that my TDEE (40yo female, 5'9", 276.4lbs) is about 3200 with an average daily step count of 11,067. That matches with Sailrabbit's moderately active modifier, which I don't necessarily feel I meet, though I also stand for about 10hrs a day, three days a week, while at my job.

    I am keeping an eye on my calories in VS weightloss for a bit to see if it's accurate for me.

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