anyone else confused about activity level?

hi everyone,

I am always confused about which activity level under the burn meter would fit me- they all seem rather inaccurate. I bike to work and back (total 12 miles with small hills) four days a week, and have ballet class about 3 hrs/wk. Both my jobs entail being on my feet and running around (I work at a bookstore and in a lab), but at home I don't think I'm on my feet much. Would this be light activity or moderate? 

Someone else suggested that I just take my sedentary activity burn rate, then add the calories burned for each activity independently, but that poses another problem because the calorie burn calculators from different websites all seem to spit out very different things. plus i'm lazy so i don't want to do this calculating business every day :)

any ideas/suggestions/help would be AWESOME!

-iz

I'd put moderate activity :).

I totally agree! I'm a work at home mom, so for four hours a day I'm at the computer. But the rest of the time I'm running after two kids, 5 and 2. We take a walk in the mornings, usually swim for an hour, I do all the housework stuff and garden a couple of times a week. I also roller blade four mornings a week, plus do cardio kickboxing twice a week and wii Personal Trainer with my husband.

So am I sedentary plus the wii, kickboxing and roller blading, or am I moderately active plus nothing? If I'm sedentary, should I put in the blocks of "childcare" "light gardening" "leisure swimming" etc, or just work outs?

If I'm moderately active, do I add my work outs?

Plus, I looked up roller blading on other sites--at my weight and speed, I burn 336 calories per hour--the only option on the activities here is for 800 calories an hour!