They are lightly to moderately active by sheer fact that they're forced to stand and move for hours all day. There are attempts to mimic this with a standing desk, but it's not the same as a retail worker who is constantly moving around, or a fast wood worker, or a factory worker who is on the go nonstop. I still have to use the sedentary as my base, because the very act of standing vs sitting is what is burning more calories in someone who doesn't have an office job. I have an office job and I still walk a lot and exercise daily. Your body will eventually tell you much more about your needs than any online calculator. If you experience the same stuff I was, you are probably underestimating. If you are hitting your calorie targets and still aren’t losing weight, you may be overestimating your exercise. I started getting brain fog, where I just couldn’t really think straight a lot of the time. My body just wouldn’t fully go into REM sleep. I lost the ability to sleep through the night. I was spending a weird amount of time curled up in front of a heater. And I know people joke about being cold while losing weight, but I was freezing in normal temperatures while wearing a normal amount of clothing. I figured out I was underestimating how much I needed due to the following: I actually DID underestimate how much I was burning after I slowly worked my way to six days a week of fairly intense exercise and kept my calories the same. This is usually good advice because people tend to naturally overestimate and then get frustrated when they aren’t losing. People here generally recommend underestimating the calories you burn from exercise. ![]()
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