Activity Level Help!

What do you do for work? If you're working at a desk, that is pretty sedentary. If you're working a retail floor or restaurant, that is between lightly active and active. So it comes down to what do you do outside of work. If you're moving around some, not including the cardio exercise, then I would suggest marking yourself as lightly active.

If you include an hour of vigorous cardio exercise into your activity level, you have to burn that many calories EVERY day doing exercise while using MFP since it is now included directly in your TDEE. You also then can not log calories burned for that exercise in MFP, as that would count them twice. MFP is set up to determine TDEE without specific exercise calories included, so then you log the exercise and it increases your TDEE for that day only by raising your Net Calorie goal.

Log your exercise separately. I would say you're about lightly active. Then, every time you exercise log that in your exercise diary

if you wear a pedometer and do what you always do for a week. Average it out to find your average number of steps per day. (I wouldn't include my exercise in this - I would log that separately, but that's just me - if you include your exercise, then you don't get to also add it in manually on the activity log as your higher activity level would already account for your exercise)

sedentary <6000

light activity 6000-9000

moderate activity 9000-12000

very active 12,000+

Having worked previously in the fast food industry I would put light active to active depending on how busy your store is. If your store is steady busy all day long then I would put active. If your store is only busy at peak times then put light active. Good luck finding the right fit!