Calories burnt doing household chores
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I seriously wonder what she does at her home to get to 6500 steps on a day where she barely moves. Assuming a step is about half a meter wide, that would be 2 miles walked... inside your apartment/house.
I believe she is my upstairs neighbor.
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I lived downstairs from her 30 years ago!
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Maybe they're just really small steps.0
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azulvioleta6 wrote: »azulvioleta6 wrote: »discretekim wrote: »OP - whether you log it or not it's up to you. But if seeing the estimated number gets you off the coach more, fine. Your MFP settings are at least sedentary.....that's < 5,000 steps (not zero).
What!? When I try really hard to walk a lot I might reach '4,000 steps. Logged with my phone so I miss some but still. I would not consider 5,000 sedentary at all.
5000 steps is extraordinarily sedentary. I get that many steps when I am home sick in bed. I had a day last week when I could barely move due to a bad fibro flare--still got 6500 steps.
Yesterday I got more than 25,000 steps...on a work day, at a desk job. I work from a home office most of the time. Total commute: 5 steps.
By the same token, I have a hard time agreeing that 12,000 steps is extraordinarily active. It's more like "I'm alive and I left the house today."
Try harder.
Because the definition of sedentary is dependent on your perception, based off using yourself as a standard.
I'm going to claim I'm no longer overweight, people are just underweight when they weigh less than I do.
I don't think that everybody needs to walk 12 miles a day, but 5 would be good...and it takes very minimal effort. Don't tell me you are trying really hard when you are getting 4000 steps a day. I'm old, I have disabilities/injuries, I have a sedentary job and I do a heck of a lot more.
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azulvioleta6 wrote: »discretekim wrote: »OP - whether you log it or not it's up to you. But if seeing the estimated number gets you off the coach more, fine. Your MFP settings are at least sedentary.....that's < 5,000 steps (not zero).
What!? When I try really hard to walk a lot I might reach '4,000 steps. Logged with my phone so I miss some but still. I would not consider 5,000 sedentary at all.
5000 steps is extraordinarily sedentary. I get that many steps when I am home sick in bed. I had a day last week when I could barely move due to a bad fibro flare--still got 6500 steps.
Yesterday I got more than 25,000 steps...on a work day, at a desk job. I work from a home office most of the time. Total commute: 5 steps.
By the same token, I have a hard time agreeing that 12,000 steps is extraordinarily active. It's more like "I'm alive and I left the house today."
Try harder.
The fact that you could barely move and that you moved 6500 steps....one thing means the opposite of the other thing.
Try harder? Judgmental much?azulvioleta6 wrote: »azulvioleta6 wrote: »discretekim wrote: »OP - whether you log it or not it's up to you. But if seeing the estimated number gets you off the coach more, fine. Your MFP settings are at least sedentary.....that's < 5,000 steps (not zero).
What!? When I try really hard to walk a lot I might reach '4,000 steps. Logged with my phone so I miss some but still. I would not consider 5,000 sedentary at all.
5000 steps is extraordinarily sedentary. I get that many steps when I am home sick in bed. I had a day last week when I could barely move due to a bad fibro flare--still got 6500 steps.
Yesterday I got more than 25,000 steps...on a work day, at a desk job. I work from a home office most of the time. Total commute: 5 steps.
By the same token, I have a hard time agreeing that 12,000 steps is extraordinarily active. It's more like "I'm alive and I left the house today."
Try harder.
Because the definition of sedentary is dependent on your perception, based off using yourself as a standard.
I'm going to claim I'm no longer overweight, people are just underweight when they weigh less than I do.
My perception is that a lot more people need to get off their *kitten* and move.
I'm sorry, but if you are walking 1.whatever miles, you are NOT ACTIVE. The absolute minimum standard is 5 miles/day.
Damn and I thought your previous comment was judgmental. This one is JUDGE-O-RAMA!!!
Everyone starts at a different level. My perception is your perception is full of bologna.
And where is that stat that the minimum standard is 5 miles?
I think she's getting the 5 miles from the suggested 10,000 recommended steps per day, as these values are the same (unless you're short like me and 10k steps is only 4 miles), but I couldn't find anything on any government website stating this. The most I could find was 150 minutes per week of moderate activity:
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how dirty is your house that you consider cleaning it exercise? i have a 5000 sf house with 5 people living in it... and ive never once considered cleaning it exercise. LOL0
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flyingtanuki wrote: »mantium999 wrote: »
I wonder if they get to log it.
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »how dirty is your house that you consider cleaning it exercise? i have a 5000 sf house with 5 people living in it... and ive never once considered cleaning it exercise. LOL
I log CI and CO. It would feel bizarre to me to do otherwise. CO doesn't only occur at a gym.
However, since I see other posters' point about not double logging activity that is included in Sedentary (although none of them could provide a link here on MFP stating that cooking and cleaning is included in this) I'm going to put a fitbit on my Christmas wish list, do the negative calorie adjustment thing so I'm not logging what may already included in the Sedentary activity level, and see what happens then.
Meanwhile, I will continue losing my goal of a pound a week while logging cooking and cleaning, as I have been doing for the past three months.
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Can I log it if I put it on my kids' chores list for the day?Monklady123 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »Exercise:
Vegetable peeling: 100 calories
Sifting Flour: 300 calories
Dusting: 400 calories
Running away from Bigfoot: 200 calories
Only one of the above IS really exercise.
*Dusting* will get me 400 calories? dang, who knew. Now I see motivation to actually DO some housework!
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Really? I have barely moved today and leave my phone on my desk when I move around the office and I'm at 3,277 steps at 1:00. I walked to my car, from my car to the train, from the train to the office, from the office around the corner to pick up lunch and back. That feels pretty sedentary to me.discretekim wrote: »OP - whether you log it or not it's up to you. But if seeing the estimated number gets you off the coach more, fine. Your MFP settings are at least sedentary.....that's < 5,000 steps (not zero).
What!? When I try really hard to walk a lot I might reach '4,000 steps. Logged with my phone so I miss some but still. I would not consider 5,000 sedentary at all.
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Ohmygod. I would wet my pants if I saw that on someone's diary.PeachyCarol wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »Also, I certainly hope anyone who logs sex (or certain acts, anyway) also includes the relevant entry in his or her food log.
Random semi-related story: when I was in college I was on the school paper and would occasionally review the books that got sent to us, one of which was this dreadful book by an alum (Jay McInerney--of course this was the '80s) called _Story of My Life_, in which the narrator was a woman who had lots of sex but refused to do certain things because it supposedly resulted in the consumption of something like 500 calories.
I thought the book was horrible, but still for some reason totally believed this claim for some years, because it just wasn't something I ever thought to check. (Not that the narrator seemed like a reliable one, especially for scientific facts.)
Later (in 2007 or so) I remembered this, because apparently the narrator was based on the real life woman who had a baby with John Edwards.
[Edited to be more discrete, because maybe it's the policy here.]
There is an entry in the data base for what you're implying.
And I do hope that those who log such things log, well... CICO... calories both in and out.
It's apparently 10 calories in, if you're a heterosexual female doing the logging.
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Whether you choose to log cleaning or not and what number of calories you put to it doesn't really matter. What matters is consistent, reproducible results. Personally, I only log things as exercise if I am doing them on purpose for exercise. Things like walking from my car to my house are just bonuses. Do what works for you.0
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