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MyFitnessPal Settings for Waitstaff
Tip20
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First post to my new group and I hope someone will join me and help me out. 
As a server, with an unusual schedule and circumstances I'm not sure of the best way to set my profile settings.
I work at an extremely busy restaurant 2-3 days a week, 8-10 hours with no break. The rest of the week I do web design and would consider my life sedentary. So I guess you could say I'm sort of a hybrid. Lol :huh:
In this case, how would you adjust your settings/exercise?
Tom
As a server, with an unusual schedule and circumstances I'm not sure of the best way to set my profile settings.
I work at an extremely busy restaurant 2-3 days a week, 8-10 hours with no break. The rest of the week I do web design and would consider my life sedentary. So I guess you could say I'm sort of a hybrid. Lol :huh:
In this case, how would you adjust your settings/exercise?
Tom
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I'm with ya'! Hostess. 4 days a week. Unusual hours. I get you. The last thing you want after a weekend of aching feet is to go to the gym. I'm in the same situation and I want help finding balance.0
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Hi!
I'm a GSA at a hotel/restaurant, on my feet 40+ hours a week, but I'm in school 3 nights a week (3 hour classes each), and have an hour long commute each direction daily, so there's also tons of sitting. I put that I was "lightly active" since I walk around a lot, but I'm not doing a lot of lifting, climbing or strenuous activity.0 -
EXACTLY Jackeline! It is so hard to motivate to work out when your feet ache so much from the night before!
I think I am going to go with "Lightly Active" for a while too... Seems to make the most sense. And I won't count work as work-outs! Just bonus calories burned I guess!
Welcome you guys to our new group!0 -
Surprised there aren't more here, but it's ok.
I've been wrestling with my self sabotaging demons lately. Can't seem to be strong enough to keep "good". :-(0 -
I don't personally log my work time, just because I feel like that is a part of my lifestyle, But i have been wondering the same thing about it.0
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finally!!! A group i can relate to!!!! I am a waitress at Applebee's I work every day sometimes morning for 4 hours sometimes nights for 8 hours i get out of work at like 12-3 am depending on the day and i always have trouble not eating late cause i don't get to eat all day. And working out before or after work is always a challenge but you guys know how it is. Oh it already calculates your work hours for you0
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Hey israelichick! Thanks for joining our little group! I'm sorry were are not more active! But we are working on it!
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I had the same issue until I bought my Fitbit. It is WONDERFUL in situations like ours where our busy lifestyle with a ton of standing and walking at odd hours for weird time frames. I just connected my Fitbit to MFP and it logs my calories burned for work accurately along with my actual workouts and what not. Definitely worth the investment
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hey guys I'm a waitress and I tend to work 30+ hours a week. By the end of a long weekend working doubles, lifting trays and dealing with the mental stress of guests the last thing I want to do is get on a treadmill. While i wish I could include my job as a workout I'm pretty sure after two years of serving it's no longer a calorie burning activity even though I feel exhausted. So I'm thinking about trying to do some beginning yoga class. It will hopefully give me the workouts I need and help with stress.0
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Oh man I put "Active"!! Mostly because it listed in small italic print underneath "waitress" hah!! I work 4 days a week but I am the queen of a nascar circle around my Lounge area so I gauge it by how busy it was, if I have time to plug in all the fries and chips I eat then I am moving at a 'slow, to mod pace" lol!!0
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