Calories burnt doing household chores
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LaarainNYC wrote: »I log things like cleaning only when it's out of the ordinary and pretty strenuous. I find that logging the calories is an incentive to move. However, I don't usually eat back my exercise calories. It's just nice to feel like I have a cushion. It's a psychological thing for me. I'm in the <30 lbs to lose club and if I ate back my exercise calories I would gain weight or at best maintain.
Yes, I find logging activity to be an incentive to move as well and as I said earlier, I don't eat back all my exercise calories so I too always have a cushion.
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Just going to leave these links here:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/17/health/sex-calorie-burn-upwave/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpPUmrKEg8
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NEAT: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12468415
This is what MFP is based on. Cooking and cleaning and gardening are included in it. One should pick an activity level commensurate with one's level of NEAT, unless you have a Fitbit. I understand you're probably best using sedentary with one of those.
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kshama2001 wrote: »
Because logging food matters, vigorously scrubbing a toilet doesn't0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »
we do it's called an appropriate activity level...if you want to log all movement there are sites for that I was a member of one once...no way no how am I logging "normal" activity everyday...and we can be more certain of the calories in the food than we can be of the calories from scrubbing a floor...or chopping a carrot vs turnip.0 -
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kshama2001 wrote: »
Because logging food matters, vigorously scrubbing a toilet doesn't
Also, food is such an easily and quickly measured thing, every little activity is not. I mean, where do you stop? What will you count? Whatever...like I said, I'm sure I have hobbies others would think are an odd use of time.
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kshama2001 wrote: »Last time I was in the gym, I didn't see any kitchens or vacuum cleaners.
One does not need a gym to lose weight or be fit. My mom eats like a horse but is one pound away from being underweight due to her burn from gardening and maintaining a 200 year old house. And cooking and cleaning!
When someone ask me how I got where I am today, it will not be by cleaning and cooking!! LOL
By the way, I haven't set foot in a gym in over a year now. I walk 6 miles 5-6 days a week and weight lift in my garage. I agree with you that you don't need a gym to lose the weight.0 -
Maybe I'm uncomfortable logging the cleaning because it seems unfair on the woman who comes and does it0
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PeachyCarol wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »
Wait, you don't log every gram of food but you log sex?
I do log every gram of food.
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[quote/] EXACTLY. I have 5 to my goal weight, and if I logged those things I would GAIN. Heck, I barely log exercise AT ALL anymore because there is zero wiggle room left. [/quote]
^yep. That's me right now. Not logging any exercise I do anymore. 5 - 10lbs to lose max.
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kshama2001 wrote: »
Because logging food matters, vigorously scrubbing a toilet doesn't
Also, food is such an easily and quickly measured thing, every little activity is not. I mean, where do you stop? What will you count? Whatever...like I said, I'm sure I have hobbies others would think are an odd use of time.
I have a timer on my watch that I use when I stop and start everything but sex. (I think I've actually forgotten to log sex for some time.)
ETA - everything meaning activities in the MFP cardiovascular exercise database like cooking, cleaning, gardening, walking, yoga, swimming, etc.
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kshama2001 wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »
Because logging food matters, vigorously scrubbing a toilet doesn't
Also, food is such an easily and quickly measured thing, every little activity is not. I mean, where do you stop? What will you count? Whatever...like I said, I'm sure I have hobbies others would think are an odd use of time.
I have a timer on my watch that I use when I stop and start everything but sex. (I think I've actually forgotten to log sex for some time.)
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kshama2001 wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »
Because logging food matters, vigorously scrubbing a toilet doesn't
Also, food is such an easily and quickly measured thing, every little activity is not. I mean, where do you stop? What will you count? Whatever...like I said, I'm sure I have hobbies others would think are an odd use of time.
I have a timer on my watch that I use when I stop and start everything but sex. (I think I've actually forgotten to log sex for some time.)
Everything?
What about using the bathroom?0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »Last time I was in the gym, I didn't see any kitchens or vacuum cleaners.
One does not need a gym to lose weight or be fit. My mom eats like a horse but is one pound away from being underweight due to her burn from gardening and maintaining a 200 year old house. And cooking and cleaning!
do you live with her? do you measure her food...you may think she eats like a horse but she probably doesn't...
I garden, maintain a house, have tonnes of flower beds (no tiller until last year) they were all dug by hand, a child and fairly active life making most of my food from scratch...I was not under weight..
I watched my own mother raise 7 kinds in a 200 yo house, garden mow an acre by pushing and maintain flower beds etc...she was over weight...don't give me that.
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The thing is, this conversation could be about household chores just as easily as it could be about all those steps people think they should count. Any activity you did prior to your weight-loss initiative does not count and shouldn't be logged. So if you always cleaned your house once a week, don't log it. But the same goes for walking from your desk to the bathroom, or to your car at the end of the day. You were doing this before. ADDITIONAL activity is what should be logged.
For instance, I now take the long way to get to the bathroom from my desk. I deduct the amount of steps it USED to take from the shorter route, and that's how I arrive at the number of extra steps. After I use the bathroom, I then walk around the building for another several hundred steps. I count these because I didn't do any of this before. I always washed my dishes and cooked and folded laundry--so I don't count it. But if I march in place for 10 minutes while I cook? I log that as a slow walk (2.5 mph) and I can get up to 60 minutes of that extra activity. This in addition to my actual workouts. All of this "extra" activity counts and earns me more food, and I've steadily lost weight this way and am VERY close to goal. The key is separating every day activity from what is new/additional/extra.0 -
It's a good thing I don't log sex...multiple entries a day.0
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