About 3 weeks ago I started a new workout schedule that included me working out 6 days a week, burning a minimum of 500 calories per workout.

Over the week-end, my knee and wrist started bugging me, so I decided that I'd take a week off from working out, and reduce my calorie intake from 1,900 a day to 1,500.

So today was to be my first day at 1,500 calories, and I didn't workout. However, I've just spent the last 90 minutes digging up bark chips and gravel, totting them around my yard in a wheelbarrow and then redistributing them. When I plugged that into Calorie Count, it says I burned around 500 calories. 

As I'm typing this, I think I'm answering my own question, but I'll keep going anyways. Should I eat my regular 1,900 calories since I'm still burning calories being active in different ways? I have my activity level set at light because I wear a pedometer and take a minimum of 10,000 steps a day. I was advised on CC that setting my activity level to light would take into consideration the steps, but then I add in my workouts over and above the light setting...but nothing other than workouts or unusual circumstances such as this yardwork I'm doing.

So, after all this blithering, I'm just needing to know if 1,900 calories of food today is still a good level?

Thanks for reading!

Kerri

*BUMPITY*

It is just a matter of calories in, calories out.  It doesn't matter how you burn the calories, just that they were burned.  If you don't feel like you really worked out though, then why not just split the difference and consume 1700 calories today instead of your regular 1900.  It can't hurt.