How many calories did I burn today?

heis4u2004

I work at a daycare in a room with 6 one year olds for 10 hours.
My life trak watch/heart rate monitor/pedometer says I have been over 15000 steps/about 6 miles/ over 2000 calories burned.
How would I log that? I don't think I would log walking for that whole time because I was up and down a lot. And anyway these things are not 100% accurate.
I normally log my work as light to moderate cleaning for 30 minutes to an hour since I do clean the room and pick up toys. Today though I had more kids than usual and they were all boys with two sets of twins.
What do you think?

3dogsrunning

I wouldn't log it. Since this is your job, I would set your activity level to lightly active or the next one up (I can't remember MFP's definition).
On days where you have more than usual, I would consider it a bonus and a little insurance policy against the days you aren't as active or as accurate logging.

Machka9

3dogsrunning wrote: »

I wouldn't log it. Since this is your job, I would set your activity level to lightly active or the next one up (I can't remember MFP's definition).
On days where you have more than usual, I would consider it a bonus and a little insurance policy against the days you aren't as active or as accurate logging.

+1

I'd probably set it at lightly active ... one step up from sedentary ... to cover variations. I've worked in childcare ... some days are up and active all day, but other days there can be a lot of sitting.

heis4u2004

Thanks