Sedentary or light activity?

so, I'm sure EVERYONE has asked this, but I'm wondering. which one am I? what classifies someone as 'sedentary'? When I'm home, I walk around the house a lot, I do chores like cleaning the kitchen or the bathroom, fold and do laundry, and I go to the gym a few times a week or I just liftweights every other day or go on walks sometimes.

But I also do a lot of sedentary stuff, like I'm on the computer more than I am doing exercise (about two or three hours a few times a day) or I just stand around a lot watching tv.

So, is this sedentary activity or light activity?

I would definitely say light.

When using the tools on this site you have the choice of choosing an appropriate activity level, such as "light" which sound right for you, or choosing "sedentary" and logging all of your activities.  Some folks seem to prefer logging.  But remember, if you select "light" and then log the activities that you normally do, you are counting the calories burned twice.  I don't like to log activities so I have may profile set to "Very Active" because even though I'm sitting at a desk all day I also workout for at least an hour every day.

I also sit at a desk all day, but I run for 60 minutes 5-days a week.  I say "light" and then add the time I run, the times I stretch, and the short amount of time I do more rigorous calisthenics in prep for the run.  Sometimes my prep-for-running  activities vary so I am putting in a more honest number of calories burned when I list them individually.  And on the two days I am letting my muscles rest, well then I don't log in any activities unless I just do some cross-training activities such as strength training.