Walking Around Shopping = Logged Exercise?

iSharnie

Okay, so, this might be an odd question. I was wondering whether or not walking around a town shopping should be added to my "exercise" on MyFitnessPal diary. It is walking, and it is obviously exercise, but should it count?

hill8570

If your base setting in MFP is "sedentary", sure.

Just be careful about eating back those calories -- the exercise database here doesn't subtract off your base burn, so the 70-100 calories/hr that you normally would have been burning just sitting on the couch watching TV is sort of double-counted.

iSharnie

Thanks, I thought along the same lines, that it's a normal routine thing so it doesn't count as additional calorie burn.

ndj1979

I am going to go NO as this is just something that you do anyway …

Using this logic, I could log getting up and walking around the house…

If it something that you normal do i.e. walking do not go log it..

if it is something additional = working out, running, then yes log it..

just my opinion on the matter...

knra_grl

I logged a couple hours of moderate paced walking when my sister and I went on an all day shopping trip. We were shopping for about 5 or 6 hours

If I am just doing a regular shopping I don't log it.

Babygi6003

I don't count it necesarrily on here but I have a Fitbit Force and it tracks my steps and calculates in extra calories burned for that.

seltzermint555

My setting is "sedentary" so for me the answer's yes. But I purposely under-log that kind of activity.

Example:

3 hours walking around a town shopping, stopping to try on clothes, browse in a store, wait in line to make a purchase, maybe stop for 10-15 minutes for a quick coffee or small snack...I log 60 min walking at leisurely pace

70 minutes walking at the mall, basically doing laps, and stopping in 2 stores to look at items and making 1 small purchase...I log 60 min walking at leisurely pace

75 minutes walking at brisk pace and hiking up a very difficult hill onto a rocky cliff and back down onto a walking track...I log 30 min walking leisurely, 30 min walking brisk or moderate, and 15 min hiking.

This is just what works for me.

LAnne16

Yeah my FitBit calculates it for me, so I don't actually log it as exercise but if it gives me an extra 5000 steps then bonussss

WakkoW

This is one of the the reasons I got my fitbit.

I was driving myself nuts with the various calculations on how to calculate my TDEE.

The fitbit calculates it for me. (Coincidentally, it pretty much matches the various calculations I was using, but it's nice to have one less thing to worry about).