Do you log cooking and cleaning...

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  • Owlie45
    Owlie45 Posts: 806 Member
    Im a housekeeper. I clean 6 days out of the week and my activity level is set for sedetary. I don't not log 99% of the time.
    The only time I do is when I go to a BAD clean out. As in scrubbing on my hands and knees. Scrubbing ovens and fridges. And I only log half of the time. You do burn quiet a bit of calories truly cleaning, not the maintaining cleaning that most do.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Rottified wrote: »
    Im a housekeeper. I clean 6 days out of the week and my activity level is set for sedetary. I don't not log 99% of the time.
    The only time I do is when I go to a BAD clean out. As in scrubbing on my hands and knees. Scrubbing ovens and fridges. And I only log half of the time. You do burn quiet a bit of calories truly cleaning, not the maintaining cleaning that most do.

    Why don't you just set yourself to lightly active?
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    No I don't log it. If I heavy clean, I figure that's just bonus calories. I only log purposeful exercise.

    I also use a different site to calculate my burns, it tends to give less inflated numbers, and it can give a net burn rather than a gross burn.
  • LAT1963
    LAT1963 Posts: 1,375 Member
    edited July 2015
    I think if the cooking and cleaning activity level is an excursion above baseline (and since you do more of it on weekends it sounds like it is), then you should log it.

    I don't log mine because I do those daily as part of my baseline of activity, and have my activity level set 1 notch higher than yours.

    I do log things like mowing the lawn, that are a weekly, not daily activity. If it is something you do daily and rarely changes in duration or intensity, then probably better to toss it into your baseline.

    If I was going to spend a weekend re-organizing a closet, I might go ahead and wear a heart rate monitor and log the result, because that's not something I normally do and it might involve heavy lifting etc.

    PS: if you are using an activity monitor that gives you a total daily calorie count then you could use that as your guide. I know this is an option with Polar products, not sure about other fitness monitor types. I don't know much about using MFP this way but if you check the forums for people using Polar products you can probably learn about this option, see if it would work better for you than the usual MFP estimates.
  • dwalt15110
    dwalt15110 Posts: 246 Member
    So, if you get up, eat breakfast, drive to work, sit at your desk all day, go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 30 minutes, get in your car, come home, eat, and go to sleep, you feel good about logging your calories burned, even though you did nothing else all day. Wouldn't those calories just be built in too? Isn't that double dipping? Just asking.
  • Azurite27
    Azurite27 Posts: 554 Member
    I don't but I did up my base calories by 75 a day once I entered maintenance as I continued to lose. However, if I were to move into a new house or paint a room where it's a short term but physically intensive project, I would consider logging it. Anything else that's routine activity I would just monitor how you're losing and up your daily activity estimate if needed.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    dwalt15110 wrote: »
    So, if you get up, eat breakfast, drive to work, sit at your desk all day, go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 30 minutes, get in your car, come home, eat, and go to sleep, you feel good about logging your calories burned, even though you did nothing else all day. Wouldn't those calories just be built in too? Isn't that double dipping? Just asking.

    Not if you are set on sedentary, right?
  • Owlie45
    Owlie45 Posts: 806 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    Rottified wrote: »
    Im a housekeeper. I clean 6 days out of the week and my activity level is set for sedetary. I don't not log 99% of the time.
    The only time I do is when I go to a BAD clean out. As in scrubbing on my hands and knees. Scrubbing ovens and fridges. And I only log half of the time. You do burn quiet a bit of calories truly cleaning, not the maintaining cleaning that most do.

    Why don't you just set yourself to lightly active?

    I broke my foot last year and wasn't allowed to do anything. And I just never saw the need to change it. I'm not hungry or anything. Idk I may change it later.
  • Cortneyrenee04
    Cortneyrenee04 Posts: 1,117 Member
    I don't. But you could. But I wouldn't recommend eating extra to compensate... That sounds like a slippery slope to me.
  • igottalose50
    igottalose50 Posts: 24 Member
    i do,but only on sundays when i deep clean my house do laundry..not regular house work days...
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    dwalt15110 wrote: »
    So, if you get up, eat breakfast, drive to work, sit at your desk all day, go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 30 minutes, get in your car, come home, eat, and go to sleep, you feel good about logging your calories burned, even though you did nothing else all day. Wouldn't those calories just be built in too? Isn't that double dipping? Just asking.

    I'm not sure what you're asking here. I would put in the treadmill time (intentional exercise). Your daily activity setting should account for the rest of your activities, including cleaning. You describe a sedentary person. If this person cleaned houses for a living, I would suggest a higher setting. Either way, I would not log cleaning, garden maintenance, cooking, or anything else like that.
  • ElisaJtsu
    ElisaJtsu Posts: 97 Member
    I log every activity. Not in order to consume more calories (as mfp greatly overestimates) but to keep track of how active I am.
  • snowflakesav
    snowflakesav Posts: 649 Member
    I have a desk job during the week. On weekend I do 4 or 5 hours a day of chores or extra activity. I usually log it as 3 hours.
    I have my setting as sedentry.
  • treesagreen1
    treesagreen1 Posts: 7 Member
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  • bubaluboo
    bubaluboo Posts: 2,098 Member
    Having a fitness tracker was an eye opener for me. I had my activity set at sedentary and then logged most activity including the sort of vigorous cleaning that involves some effort. However, my tracker showed that I have to get quite a lot of work in to get past the sedentary calorie limit and actually start adding exercise calories. So now I wouldn't log housework unless I guess it was one of those whole day moving furniture around sort of cleaning events.
  • Clarewho
    Clarewho Posts: 494 Member
    Like you OP I'm sedentary (have a desk job 4 days pw for 6 hrs each day). But the rest of the time I would probably be lightly active. I don't change my settings for those days and I don't log 'normal' housework/activity. I don't have a fitness tracker other than my iphone steps, so I might get a bit of extra credit there. But I just figure unless I'm really breaking a sweat it's just 'bonus activity'. I do log actual conscious exercise like gym/running/swimming etc. But not housework/gardening.
  • eyleene
    eyleene Posts: 264 Member
    ElisaJtsu wrote: »
    I log every activity. Not in order to consume more calories (as mfp greatly overestimates) but to keep track of how active I am.
    i was too just to see what a normal day is like not counting intentional exercise , but i only count extras now

  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    edited July 2015
    I have a desk job...8 hours a day. I still don't log cooking and cleaning...ever. I don't care what I am doing.

    The only thing that gets logged under my exercise tab is actual exercise...no lawn mowing, even tho it's a push mower and takes 48 mins...getting wood in for the winter, tending my gardens...It does however get me way past sedentary...

    And I feel if you do you are just cheating yourself...

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