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I am down to my last 7 pounds to make my goal weight. I do 300-400 minutes of cardio per week. I do 160 minutes of pilates for resistance and flexibility per week. My question is this: with this level of exercise going on although I have an otherwise sedentary type day do I still have a BMR at a sedentary lifestyle range or do I move it up? I need to know so that I don't under eat for what I am doing.

Move it up.  Try to make your life less sedentary, four example park at the back of the parking lot, take the stairs, walk to the (insert what ever is close that you normally drive to).  Secondly add weight training this will help build some more muscle to burn away that stubborn fat.  Pilates is great but adding just weight training will be a very good addition.

I have a similar issue... I try to work out each day, today treadmill, swimming and yoga. I try to do at least an hour a day. Otherwise my life is very sedentary, I work from home at the moment and it's computer based. I walk every where (or cycle) - I don't drive! - and when I walk I walk very quickly. So what do I put down? So far I put sedentary. Instead of 1200 cals I usually get about 1300-1500 depending on activity levels. According to my logs I have a 400 to 500 calorie deficit most days. In 10 days I have lost about 5lbs, so something is working. When I work from home I'm  not sure how to make my everyday more active?

Does sedentary sound right or should I go to light? Will it make much difference for me?

 

BTW Terry2Fish - LOVE your dog! What a cutie... I can spot an EBT a mile off - fantastic critters!

First of all 5 in 10 is excellent.  Realistically it is more like 2lbs a week is safe.  Granted in the beginning the weight comes off faster but it will balance out eventually.  The activity guideline is on a guide.  Sedentary person means little in the way of exercise (on purpose or accident) and little activity.  I know most people think of what there job is sedentary but keep a journal of every activity you do for 24 hours and you will see how little you sit down at work.  Maybe you do sit down a lot but you walk and bike every where and a sedentary person would not do that.  So give your self some credit, you do more than what you think.  The calories seem to be right on for now but monitor your intakes make sure you are eating the right things and if it seems to stall out a little then adjust your eating and work out program accordingly. As for home maybe try bringing you some light dumbbells into where you are working and every 30 min do a minute set of a exercise.  Do as many as you can in that minute.  This shouldn't replace your normal routine but maybe it will help you burn more calories when you work from home that you would have lost if you would have been in the office.

 

Thank you for the responses!

Cookk, my pilates routine includes weights. I actually do park farther out and do a lot of walking. One day a week I take care of my mother-in-law who is wheel chair bound. On that day I don't sit down at all. I have to pick her up out of bed, bathe and dress her, and generally take care of her like you would an enfant. She weighs about 140 pounds so this is a full 12 hour day of heavy lifting each week. Other days I do cooking demos at my food coop and stand and talk and cook for five hours at a time. I do gardening and housework most days during spring, summer and fall. In winter like now I don't get out to do gardening though that will end soon now. I think I am ok at 1300-1500 calories per day for now until I get to my goal. Then I will need to readjust.

Terry