Anyone else confoozd or have me an answer? ...no?

Okay, so here's the deal---

I recently began working out a few months ago after I joined the site : D and anyway, I just got to the point a few weeks ago where I am in decent shape and work out 3-4 days a week, usually burning 250-450 calories of cardio and doing about 20-30 mins of weight lifting per visit. I walk a decent amount as I am a student. Most other days I lie around all day doing homework and being on this damn computer thing. I feel like maybe it is time for me to make the move on my account from sedentary up to light activity.

What I want to know is, well, I know that I'm ready to do this cause I'm darn hungry all the time and I feel pretty good about the shape I am in....BUT...can I still log the days I go to the gym and add them to my burn meter and eat more?

Or more specifically, does cc seem to only count the calories burned by being an active sedentary, or is it counting the calories I would actually burn at the gym into the daily? To clear things up a bit, working out frequently causes you to burn more (homeostatic) calories even when you are lying around on the floor than an un-active sedentary. So, do you guys think that is all that counts when you up your activity level, or do you think it's actually assuming you are excercising somewhere when you aren't here staring at the computer screen, and, uhh..not logging it???

I don't want to make the change unless I can be confident that my daily records will still be useful and accurate...

however...dude...I'm so hungry...I feel like I might deserve a couple more hundred calories a day...(i would be moving from 1580 est. burned to 1800! can you say YUMmm)

I am confused and would like assistance!

plz & thnx

How is your weight loss progressing? Are you losing slowly or quickly?  It sounds to me like you could probably use some more calories.  What I noticed is that if I eat a little more one day (smaller deficit)  I feel really satisfied and then next day I can eat less and have a bigger deficit while feeling good.  If you're overall deficit for the week is where you want it you're fine.  It's really uncomfortable to me to be hungry everyday. 

Try to  add in a few hundred quality calories and watch to make sure it doesn't stall your loss.  The other day on Valentines I only had a 100 calorie deficit (I usually go for 500-900.  I felt totally good and satisfied and the next day I was hardly hungry all day which felt nice.

Good luck!