I do two 20 min Hiit training running hills and one very steep uphill 30 minute walk on treadmill per week. Also do some abs and full push-ups during the week. Is this considered moderate excercise per week? Just trying to work out my kj allowance for the week.

Thx Snez

So what your saying is this would be considered as light exercise? I thought light exercise was just walking. The runs are hard uphill intervals with rest between, I am completely out of breath after each uphill sprint. I do about 10-12 sprints per session lasting anywhere from 30 sec to 1 minute, 2xper week. Is this still considered light? Find this very confusing.

I thought intense exercise was better for weight loss than lower intensity. When l walk l feel like l’ve done nothing.

I couldn’t agree more, but just trying to distinguish between what is classified as light or moderate exercise so l can work out my daily calorie needs. Surely a person who runs 3xper week has a higher calorie need than a person who sits at a desk all day everyday. i know from first hand experience that exercise doesn’t impact weight loss and can actually hinder it. Many years ago, l used to run about 6km per day, 7 days per week, and then one day l got sick of all this running and cut it back to 2 days per week and even though l always ate healthy, I was more conscious of my eating when l exercised less, and ended up much slimmer than ever. At the moment l don’t enjoy my hard runs at all, I would love to give them up, and just walk for longer, but am concerned l will gain weight, and l would have to eat much less, which maybe wouldn’t be sustainable for me. I am always hungry now, and l just feel like l never get enough food. I eat about 8,000kj per day with 2 fasts day each week and am always hungry. Imagine if l have to cut back, l wouldn’t be able to maintain my weight. So if l just walk for an hour instead of my sprints, and ate the way l do, if l would gain.

I am maintance now, so as l believe l am in between light to moderately active I have done my calculations somewhere between the two and will see how l go. I definitely will not put sedentary for maintance but for weight loss l did put sedentary and that’s how l lost weight. But now that l am maintaining l would think l need to change the activity level. Does this sound right?

Lastly are you saying that if my diet stayed exactly the same but sat all day everyday, that l wouldn’t gain weight?