Sedentary?

jsugihara86
jsugihara86 Posts: 71 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
What does that mean? I cant decide what I really am as far as normal. I am a stay at home mom during the week, go to school at nights, and then working part time on the weekends, which is a desk job. I do run on the elliptical 5-6 days a week for 20 min a night, sometimes more.

How do I decide what to put?

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  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    You're definately not sedentary! I'd do the next one up, I think it's lightly active? Something like that! Good luck to you and congrats on making a change to a new lifestyle!
  • Xaspar
    Xaspar Posts: 726 Member
    I put mine as sedentary and then log any committed exercise. That way, I am not having to worry on days I don't exercise and I log the exercise for additional calories burned/earned.
  • Kirsty_UK
    Kirsty_UK Posts: 964 Member
    What does that mean? I cant decide what I really am as far as normal. I am a stay at home mom during the week, go to school at nights, and then working part time on the weekends, which is a desk job. I do run on the elliptical 5-6 days a week for 20 min a night, sometimes more.

    How do I decide what to put?

    for the workouts, you can either include them in your daily activity level, or log them on top of it as workouts - I have mine set as sedentary, and then log workouts on top

    as a stay at home mum most days though I doubt you're sedentary!
  • bedinky1207
    bedinky1207 Posts: 53 Member
    I've kept mine set to lightly active. I spend a lot of time sitting at the computer working on my business.
  • elishabeish
    elishabeish Posts: 175 Member
    I'm a SAHM too, i set mine to light because i'm on my feet more than not. Good luck!!
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    If you're not on your butt for hours at a time the majority of the day, then you're not sedentary.
  • icemaiden17_uk
    icemaiden17_uk Posts: 463 Member
    Here is what I did!

    I started out really really fat and lazy! At work I tried to do as much filing as possible from my chair so I didn't have to get up, I hardly cooked or cleaned at home either! So I was sedentary and I would log some cooking and cleaning and my workouts!

    After I lost about 50lb I was cooking, cleaning, and running about after my LO at home and avoiding my chair at work! So I changed to lightly active and stopped logging any cleaning or cooking as well as any very busy work days!!

    Now I help a friend look after her horses, cook, clean, stand at work and I have changed myself to active! I don't log any of those things and I also no longer log my walk to the gym! All I do now is log my workouts!!

    I hope these examples help!! What you really need to do is sit and have a think about what you will and wont log and how much time you spend on your feet in the day!! Are you a stay at home Mum who spends a lot of quality time with the sofa or are you up and cooking and cleaning and playing etc? Once you have that sorted you will be fine!! Just remember that if they are included in your daily goal you can't log them as excersise!! :)
  • Gwenski
    Gwenski Posts: 348 Member
    I think part of the problem understanding the terms 'sedentary' and 'lightly active' comes from the example given for 'lightly active'
    They mention that a mail carrier is lightly active. To me, that seems to be more active than 'lightly' I know that I am sedentary as I am usually sitting at a desk at work, use transportation as opposed to walking anywhere etc. There just seems to be a big difference between sedentary and lightly active. If the OP is on her feet a lot while at home, walks to school or her job and back home again, then I would say she's lightly active. But, given that students generally are sitting, and while at work she sits at a desk.. she could well be sedentary as well. Maybe it would be good to have the definitions more quantitative.. like, if you take more than x# of steps per day you are lightly active.. just a thought.

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