Gardening!

didda1

I spent 6 hours today (WOW!) gardening- everything from building an 8 foot planter box (hand sawing the boards, nailing, moving the boards all over the yard, filling it with dirt) to planting seeds, moving pots around, general cleaning of my garden, etc.
How would I figure out the calories burned from this?
I barely rested, except for hydration breaks- I was not working very hard, but it was steady. I'm pretty sure I'm going to regret this tomorrow, as I have fibro, but hey, my garden is stunning now, so it was worth it!

fastforlife1

There is gardening on the cardio/exercise section. I think the calories burned is way too high though. i usually record only a quarter of them. It also depends on how high you have your daily activity level. I go from "sedentary" in the winter to "lightly active." It is better to put less rather than more in activity and more rather than less in the food log.

didda1

Yeah, using what inputs I could find, it said I burned over 2k calories.
That cannot be right lol.
My daily activity level is one 20 minute walk, and that's about it.
I have no idea how I physically did this today, I'm going to pay for it.