I have my account set to Sedentary, and then add in my workouts and other activities (house work, shopping etc). I also wear a pedometer and make sure to get my 10,000 steps in each day. I take it off during my daily workouts, so those 10,000 steps are over and above my workouts.

I haven't been logging the pedometer steps as activity, simply because I don't know how. However, I've recently started to reduce my deficit from 1,000 to 500 calories, and want to make sure I'm still eating enough according to my eat and burn meters.

Thanks for your help!

I would just change your setting to light activity rather than sedentary since walking 10,000 steps in addition to the exercise outs in that category (or higher).

Oh! Brilliant - thank-you so much!

If you are logging 10,000 steps not including your workout, you need to put yourself at moderately active -- and then also log your workout

This is a good rule of thumb for you to determine your activity level (these do NOT include workouts beyond the pedometer stuff):

sedentary 0 (miles) or less than 9,400 (steps)

somewhat active up to 4 (miles) or up to 9,400 (steps) (lightly active)

active 4 to 10 (miles) or 9,400 to 23,500 (steps) (Moderately active)

very active more than 10 (miles) or more than 23,500 (steps)

That just seems outrageous to me!! I'm coming from a time where I was eating less than 1,100 calories a day (lost 64 pounds this way..mind you not working out at all), to 1,500 calories a day, to now 1,900 calories a day...and now, if I were to chance my settings to "moderate", I should be eating almost 2,400 calories a day to have a 500 calorie deficit? That just FREAKS ME RIGHT OUT!! Could it be true?

I wear a heart rate monitor when I workout, and always ensure that I burn 500 calories per workout...

it could be true... at the minimum switch over to lightly active.  If you are losing more than 1% of your body weight per week, you are eating too little

Original Post by coach_k:

If you are logging 10,000 steps not including your workout, you need to put yourself at moderately active -- and then also log your workout

This is a good rule of thumb for you to determine your activity level (these do NOT include workouts beyond the pedometer stuff):

 

sedentary 0 (miles) or less than 9,400 (steps)

somewhat active up to 4 (miles) or up to 9,400 (steps) (lightly active)

active 4 to 10 (miles) or 9,400 to 23,500 (steps) (Moderately active)

very active more than 10 (miles) or more than 23,500 (steps)

Coach_k:

Is this per day, or per week?

interesting!