What should I set my activity level as?

Run4UrHealth
Run4UrHealth Posts: 348 Member
edited November 12 in Fitness and Exercise
On MFP it says to put sedentary if you have a desk job. I have an 8-4:30 p.m. desk job but I have seen people put on here if you exercise often then you should set it differently. I have boot camp 3 days a week (1 hour a session) and try to run and do cardio any chance I get (30 minutes to an hour). What should I set my activity level on?

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  • Run4UrHealth
    Run4UrHealth Posts: 348 Member
    Anyone?????
  • zafferFL
    zafferFL Posts: 402
    light active
  • DFWTT
    DFWTT Posts: 374
    Sedentary. The daily activity is what they are referring to. You will be logging all of your cardio activities above the day to day desk job so you will eat those calories back. If you aren't standing and moving for most of the day, light active may put your deficit too low. I have heard that most people overestimate their level of daily activity. I stand and move, lift and twist during the workweek and am "light active".
  • JustBreathe418
    JustBreathe418 Posts: 355 Member
    If you have a desk job, I would keep the activity level as sedentary and add any exercise you do to your diary.
  • ClareB13
    ClareB13 Posts: 202 Member
    Why not just set it as sedentary and then log all your other activity under exercise?
  • Graciecny
    Graciecny Posts: 302 Member
    I do what others are suggesting - I have my lifestyle as sedentary and I log my gym time/calories exercising. I use a HRM for calories burned...I do not, however, subtract BMR from HRM calories burned - my sedentary setting is my cushion, I guess, as I do eat back my calories, or at least most of them. Two days a week the sedentary setting is totally true - I am leashed to a desk from 8am until 8pm. But the other five days a week I'm typically cleaning, doing laundry, getting groceries, anything but sitting on my backside (I should mention I don't log cleaning, etc, as exercise, just gym time...although there was the one snow shoveling incident :wink: ). I still tend to think those really long days and one other short workday behind a desk make me essentially sedentary, although I would dearly love to eat those extra calories some days. :laugh:
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