Question about figuring out daily calorie goal

So, I'm new to this site. (Hello!)

I'm trying to figure out all the in's and out's so bare with me if this question has already been addressed.

Under the "Tools" section, there is the "Calorie Target" page. On this page, it has me list my height, weight, sex, goal weight.... and my "lifestyle."

I'm a little bit confused about this, because the calorie target says "light exercise" or "moderate" exercise (something like that anyway). So, okay, I am not sedentary, I am working out a little bit, so I am choosing "light exercise."

However, what do I do then when I want to actually log my exercise calories? If I am walking every day, and I say that I am in the "Light Exercise" category, and so I get an additional 200 calories a day for being in that category, then do I ALSO add any workout calories I get when I actually do my workout?  Or, should I make myself as "Sedentary" and then just give myself the extra calories through working out only?

Make sense to anyone? Sorry, this was tough to explain!

...and I apologize for posting this twice. No idea how I managed that...

People have different schools of thought on this. I prefer the "set it at light and don't log". Others say it's better to "set it at sedentary and do log"

But if you are sedentary other than light exercise, the one thing that's for sure is that you shouldn't set yourself to light AND log exercise - that's double dipping.

As I understand it, the activity level determines your burn meter. So if you want Calorie Count to figure in your average exersize, set your activity level at what your average daily activity level is and don't log your exersize/workout unless it's above and beyond what you normally do. I find that method a little less precise (but easier if you don't want to be logging every activity on a daily basis to calculate your burn meter). But what I do is set my level at sedentary, and then log any significant activity individually.

I was wondering this same thing, thanks for the answers!

Ah ha! Yeah, I didn't want to double dip and screw myself up.

I'm going to set this on sedentary and see how I do. Thanks!