Does cooking burn calories? MFP says yes!

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  • calimari
    calimari Posts: 202 Member
    I only post cleaning or gardening if it is above & beyond the ordinary. Like spring cleaning where I am moving furniture, rolling up and moving area rugs, up and down stepladders, etc. Gardening if I'm doing lots of digging, bending, lugging plants all around the yard for planting, moving dirt and filled pots - not watering with a hose or anything like that. Of course today I shoveled snow for 4 minutes and counted it because it was a pretty low-activity day for me, and I did do it, and it was work...
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
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    segacs wrote: »

    This stuff is all BUILT IN to your calorie estimate already. Logging it again is double-counting those minimal calories.

  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    I've seen people log ridiculous things like, pushing a shopping cart, sex, singing and driving. I just shake my head. These are usually the people that then cry when they aren't losing weight and try to say that calories in/calories out doesn't work. They're lying to themselves, and that's why it doesn't work for them.
  • hamminit
    hamminit Posts: 184 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    randomtai wrote: »
    How much does worrying about what other people log burn? :huh:

    So I get a cookie now?

    I want a cookie
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    It does, but unless you're preparing some kind of holiday feast where you're seriously on your feet for hours on end, that kind of activity should already be rolled up in people's activity level.

    Unfortunately, a lot of people just like cheating themselves...and then they wonder why it doesn't work, but they're doing everything "right"

    ^^This...
  • stillnot2late
    stillnot2late Posts: 385 Member
    randomtai wrote: »
    How much does worrying about what other people log burn? :huh:
    Thank you so much.

  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    hamminit wrote: »
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    randomtai wrote: »
    How much does worrying about what other people log burn? :huh:

    So I get a cookie now?

    I want a cookie
    A cookie for you. Pls log kkthx. 4bupgrolk8sx.png


  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Well I like this since I just cooked three meals this morning......no I wouldn't log it though honestly.
  • stillnot2late
    stillnot2late Posts: 385 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    zyxst wrote: »
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    randomtai wrote: »
    How much does worrying about what other people log burn? :huh:

    So I get a cookie now?
    As long as you log it. Emoticon_cookie.png

    I don't care what people log as exercise. I blindly click the thumbs up and say "Good job!".

    Laughs, I log gum!
    I don't care either. No judging from me.

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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    The most accurate way to determine how many calories you burned during a day is to log every activity, even sleep, but MFP isn't really set up that way.
  • Angiefit4life
    Angiefit4life Posts: 210 Member
    Then remove them if you feel so strongly. it's seriously not our place to judge. For the record I don't eat my calories back!!! but I log what I feel is appropriate. once I logged mowing with a push mower. My husband was deployed and the front wheel was frozen so I pushed mowed backwards best workout I ever did!
  • HeySwoleSister
    HeySwoleSister Posts: 1,938 Member
    dietcoke281 wrote: »
    One of my friends once posted a calorie burn for "self pleasure"!
    But yeah, I hate when people count stupid stuff for calorie burns.


    Ok, that one I haven't seen, lol. Did you give them s "good job" click? I don't know that I would have been able to resist.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    edited January 2015
    amwcnw wrote: »
    Then remove them if you feel so strongly. it's seriously not our place to judge. For the record I don't eat my calories back!!! but I log what I feel is appropriate. once I logged mowing with a push mower. My husband was deployed and the front wheel was frozen so I pushed mowed backwards best workout I ever did!

    I assume you must be new here. I don't see any judgement but rather people who have seen this all before. Someone feels that they should log everything, even though they are already counted in their base activity levels, and then complain that they are burning X amount and only consuming Y amount of calories yet still not losing or even gaining.

    The points here are mostly informative and are correct. You should only log something that is outside your normal level of activity such as exercise. If you start logging everything and eat to that level you will never lose because you will be double and triple counting your calories burned.
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