Calories burnt doing household chores
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christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
You posted a comment in a discussion forum and a wild discussion broke out? I am shocked. Not sure what you wanted from this place, but real experts generally charge.
The type of people who log cleaning tend to also log cooking and gardening. So I think it's relevant.
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ceoverturf wrote: »People who log things like housework and cooking as extra calorie-burning exercise are only fooling themselves, IMO.
Your body isn't fooled though.
This is exactly how I feel. Because we've moved offices and the layout of the new place has longer halls and I have further to tread from my office to my boss's office, and because the walk is longer from my office at one end and the mail room at the other end, I could certainly log all those walks as extra if I want to fool myself into thinking it will matter.
It makes no difference whatsoever because I generally move a lot anyway. I only include my cardio, though I have once included strenuous yard work because it is not something I normally do. I cut those exercise calories drastically by NOT logging the 400 something for two hours of gardening and only counted 100 calories. It's not something I would normally do, though.
I also don't log calorie for non-cardio exercise, such as weight lifting.0 -
I don't log cleaning, but some people do. Some people log every single thing. I had one MFP friend who logged sleeping. He was trying to figure out exactly how many calories she was burning through the day and night, so she logged every single thing.
It's an individual choice.
I only log swimming and walking/running that I do to work my body. If I'm hanging out in the mall, it isn't logged. If I go to an amusement park and spend a lot of time standing around to ride rides, no logging. If I go there just to walk for my daily walk and that's all I do, I log it.
I'm only keeping track of exercise I do for the purpose of exercising. If you want to keep track of other stuff, have at it! It's your diary. You make the rules.0 -
TheVirgoddess wrote: »Well this got weird.
Maybe it's the calorie deprivation ... Makes people angry and ready to fight.
I'm not angry, but I do confess to taking a minute to see if I could find an old youtube of Julia Child dancing with a raw chicken =P
Now that would have been awesome!
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... and folks wonder why they "can't" lose weight.
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christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
Ummm you might want to go back and re-read the thread... Logging calories for cooking and cleaning was mentioned quite few time, hence why I brought it up
... Or am I hallucinating??
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christinev297 wrote: »christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
Ummm you might want to go back and re-read the thread... Logging calories for cooking and cleaning was mentioned quite few time, hence why I brought it up
And actually I have seen this on my fl. Cooking, cleaning, food prep, driving0 -
Therealobi1 wrote: »christinev297 wrote: »christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
Ummm you might want to go back and re-read the thread... Logging calories for cooking and cleaning was mentioned quite few time, hence why I brought it up
And actually I have seen this on my fl. Cooking, cleaning, food prep, driving
Me too
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Deep down people know, just need to r educate themselves and be ready for a bit of hard work and patienceSergeantSausage wrote: »... and folks wonder why they "can't" lose weight.0 -
DRIVING?
Oy ve.
I do log super heavy housecleaning, and sometimes heavy gardening. I do the composting for 23 families at my community garden--it's super heavy work. DRIVING though? Nope, nope, nope!0 -
Like, rallying, maybe. I could imagine you would burn a few calories rallying.
But regular-around-town driving? NO.0 -
Are there any cars left in the world that don't have power steering? Maybe then you could burn 5 calories/hour.0
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christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
Chuckle ...kindly define "real expert"
I assume, in your world, it's not someone with real life experience and success, who has educated themselves by reading countless scientific studies and getting involved in heated debate around various theories ...bringing peer reviewed proof ...cos that's how it used to be round here ..not people getting hangry cos they can't log hoovering
That's the core issue with MFP ...there are so many people who can wear the expert cap and every single one of them knows a crapload more than your general primary care physician, nutritionist and/or trainer ...0 -
christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
Don't get upset. Forums are both annoying and the best thing ever. Once you forgot about delivery of posts you will see that people have your best interest at heart.
Leave out the cleaning, and include all your extra steps. I never include school run as one its 5 min each way and two it's part of my normal day.0 -
I once commented about how a certain turn used to be so hard in a car without power steering and my son said, "What?" Had to explain it.azulvioleta6 wrote: »Are there any cars left in the world that don't have power steering? Maybe then you could burn 5 calories/hour.
There is an entire generation of adults who never heard of cars without it, much less drove them. Time marches on!
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Therealobi1 wrote: »christinev297 wrote: »christinev297 wrote: »barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Indeedy :laugh:
I would love to take a peek at the people who log cooking as exercise... Unless you're doing jumping jacks while your chopping your veggies, and cartwheeling from one side of the kitchen to the other, I just no understando :noway:
I don't remember anyone mentioning cooking as counting toward calorie burn!!! Not really helpful to add fiction.
There's the odd useful comment here but 3 pages of self righteous drivel. Not sure I'll bother asking another question, maybe just ask a real expert instead.
Ummm you might want to go back and re-read the thread... Logging calories for cooking and cleaning was mentioned quite few time, hence why I brought it up
And actually I have seen this on my fl. Cooking, cleaning, food prep, driving
I asked someone about the driving thing and they said that it was to subtract calories because their device logged the mileage as walking.0 -
I have my calories set at an averaged BMR so, from what i understand, anything I do aside from sleeping is counted. (Not gospel - just how I'm doing it) 0
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barbecuesauce wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »I'm set to sedentary and I let my fitbit handle the burn from steps. I do not log anything else I do in my day as exercise, unless it's a specific, dedicated activity, like water jogging, for example. People log a burn rate from cooking? Seriously?
Those bags of precooked chicken, frozen vegetables, and marinara sauce don't just assemble themselves you know
Ah, maybe this explains why I log cooking and lose weight. Assuming you mean jarred sauce, I don't use any of that stuff.
For me, cooking = cooking from scratch. Chop chop chop.
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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.0 -
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.
Bigfoot isn't real, so it has to be the vegetable peeling. I, for one, am encouraged to find out that preparing mashed potatoes is so good for me.0 -
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.
Maybe the real reason I'm losing weight despite logging cooking is because I'm running away from Bigfoot in my sleep? O_o
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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! 0 -
I'm always curious about people who log cooking - do they log sex, too?0
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I only log my binge cleaning, which occurs less than once a month. And even then I might log 60-90 minutes if I spend the majority of the day scrubbing all the baseboards, vacuuming and steam mopping every floor, catching up on the laundry, organizing the garage, scrubbing the stone tile in the entry and half bath by hand, cleaning out my closet, removing all the things from the cabinets to wipe them out, dishes, cleaning the stove/oven and microwave, changing linens on all the beds... you know, far above my normal laundry, dishes, and sweeping/vacuuming as needed.0
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TheVirgoddess wrote: »I'm always curious about people who log cooking - do they log sex, too?
I sure do!
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ceoverturf wrote: »People who log things like housework and cooking as extra calorie-burning exercise are only fooling themselves, IMO.
Your body isn't fooled though.
Huh. I've always logged housework and cooking, and have lost 96 pounds so far. Go figure!
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If you're trying to maintain a caloric deficit it is better to operate under a margin of error and overestimate caloric intake, while underestimating caloric output.
That and the amount of calories MFP spits out from daily chores is outrageously inflated. I did not burn 800 calories from mowing my 1/4 acre lawn - as much as I want to justify that 6th beer.0
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