# Massive increase in activity level
**URL:** https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082
**Category:** Nutrition Q&A \[Moderated\]
**Created:** [February 18, 2022, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082 "2022-02-18T04:32:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Dylan\_Priest](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dylan_Priest)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2022, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082/1 "2022-02-18T04:32:52Z")
Coming back from injury rehab; kind of fall of the rails in regard to training and diet, got a bit chubby but been back training about a month now. I am around 85kg, 174cm tall, comfortably over 20% body fat.
Before I was eating around 2000 calories a day with 150g protein to try and get back to a healthy weight, however due to a number of reasons my activity is way up.
Before I was mostly sedentary with 4PL sessions and 1 GPP. Now, on top of that, I’m walking about 10 kilometer 6 days a week. At first I though it’d just help me lose weight, but now I feel like maybe I should increase calories a bit to compensate. Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082/2 "2022-02-18T16:35:57Z")
If you’re trying to lose weight, I’m not sure that I would increase energy intake to compensate for the deficit you _should_ be in, you know?
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### Author:  [@Dylan\_Priest](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dylan_Priest)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082/3 "2022-02-19T00:52:56Z")
> [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](#):
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> If you’re trying to lose weight, I’m not sure that I would increase energy intake to compensate for the deficit you _should_ be in, you know?
I understand that, but at 2000 calories I was already in what was considered to be an above average deficit (around -650 calories on maintenance a day)
I don’t know how accurate a pedometer I used is, but according to it last night I walked an extra 19,000 steps, 12.5km and burnt 600 calories. You don’t think will affect me too much coming from a sedentary life?
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### Author:  [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082/4 "2022-02-20T15:48:16Z")
> [@Dylan\_Priest](#):
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> I understand that, but at 2000 calories I was already in what was considered to be an above average deficit (around -650 calories on maintenance a day)
> I don’t know how accurate a pedometer I used is, but according to it last night I walked an extra 19,000 steps, 12.5km and burnt 600 calories. You don’t think will affect me too much coming from a sedentary life?
I do not think this will affect you nearly as much as you think. If you start hemorrhaging weight, you can temper your deficit. I would not do this prophylactically.
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### Author:  [@Dylan\_Priest](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dylan_Priest)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082/5 "2022-02-21T05:52:34Z")
> [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](#):
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> I do not think this will affect you nearly as much as you think. If you start hemorrhaging weight, you can temper your deficit. I would not do this prophylactically.
Got it, though I have one last question. I’ve started experiencing some pretty major hip pain which has coincided with this combination of work + coming back to training. I’ve self rehabbed knee + elbow tendinopathy in the past, and am semi-successfully in the processing of rehabbing low back pain and have never experienced this kind of pain before. Do you think this is just something I have to get through in an adaptation period to new work load?
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### Author:  [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/massive-increase-in-activity-level/12082/6 "2022-02-21T16:47:27Z")
> [@Dylan\_Priest](#):
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> Got it, though I have one last question. I’ve started experiencing some pretty major hip pain which has coincided with this combination of work + coming back to training. I’ve self rehabbed knee + elbow tendinopathy in the past, and am semi-successfully in the processing of rehabbing low back pain and have never experienced this kind of pain before. Do you think this is just something I have to get through in an adaptation period to new work load?
It sounds like the current training + other activity is outstripping your training tolerance at the moment. I think it needs to be reduced to a tolerable level and then worked up over time.