Stop counting cleaning, walking to the mail box, etc.

LazSommer

Why do people complain about not losing as fast as they'd like and then count cleaning (vigorous effort) as exercise? Unless cleaning is dragging a 300 lb porcelain tub out of a two story building, you did not burn 300 calories.

Seriously, stop.

Kate7294

Bump

anaconda469

Bump

^this (in it for the pictures)

ThinkInOregon

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

brianpperkins

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

That's about 60 net calories for a 200 pound human.

ThinkInOregon

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

Oh, since when I weighed yesterday I was 128.7 lbs, I don't believe it is hurting my progress at all!!

Serah87

meshashesha2012

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

That's about 60 net calories for a 200 pound human.

yet somehow she still reached her weight loss goal by counting.

in any case, you dont need to exercise to lose weight, so it doesnt really matter what people log or dont log, especially considering that MFP starts most people's base calories off lower than needed

BrienJD

But, But, But...If I don't count cleaning and walking to the mailbox I'll never see a deficit!!!! Oh cruel world:sad:

Fitbit counts every single step. what's wrong with counting it on your totals as long as you don't abuse it?

crys39

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charliecopley

To me vigorous cleaning involves doing outside chores, like pushing the lawn mower for 30 minutes, hand cleaning the gutters, hand scrubbing off your patio, not a vacuum through the living room that doesn't involve you not moving heavy furniture.

ihad

You really don't know what's appropriate for someone unless you understand their situation and assumptions. Some people build an assumed level of activity into their targets, and some set a very low base and add calories as they are more active than their assumptions. If it's working for them, great. If not, they need to examine a number of assumptions, not just how they handle exercise, but also their food logging practices.

Noogynoogs

I log going into my kitchen to open the fridge door for food. This had got to be a 300 cal burn right?

Fat2Fit_imready

But, But, But...If I don't count cleaning and walking to the mailbox I'll never see a deficit!!!! Oh cruel world:sad:

Fitbit counts every single step. what's wrong with counting it on your totals as long as you don't abuse it?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

ThinkInOregon

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

That's about 60 net calories for a 200 pound human.

I believe MFP counts it as 64 cal at 3mph and 74 cal at 4 mph. So net you pretty are likely pretty close. I do not eat back the calories unless I do Zumba or something like that.

I have not had a problem with weight loss, but before I went on vacation (past 2 weeks) I weighed everything.

Fat2Fit_imready

I log going into my kitchen to open the fridge door for food. This had got to be a 300 cal burn right?

UUUM YOUR OVER CALCULATING HUN, its more like 200!!

JelloJerrika

Hahahaha you go girl!

brianpperkins

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

That's about 60 net calories for a 200 pound human.

yet somehow she still reached her weight loss goal by counting.

in any case, you dont need to exercise to lose weight, so it doesnt really matter what people log or dont log, especially considering that MFP starts most people's base calories off lower than needed

Apparently she doesn't check her mail very often according to her diary with only one walk logged in the month of July ... and that with the typical MFP overage of 114 cals for 30 minutes at 3mph ... when she netted about half of that.

ThinkInOregon

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

That's about 60 net calories for a 200 pound human.

yet somehow she still reached her weight loss goal by counting.

in any case, you dont need to exercise to lose weight, so it doesnt really matter what people log or dont log, especially considering that MFP starts most people's base calories off lower than needed

Thank you. I have had a failed back surgery and many times walking is what I can do. So that is what I do. On good days I do Zumba. And was meticulous with my counting until I went on vacation for 2 weeks, and ate out almost every day (mostly making sensible food choices)... but also walked 2 miles a day. I lost 3.5 lbs... so in reality I should have eaten foods higher in calories.

Howdoyoufeeltoday

I don't reall care what people log. If it's working for them then awesome. Only they know what's exercise to them.

Now Jesse and Walter White from Breaking Bad...they deserve to add cleaning to their exercise log..

ThinkInOregon

It is a mile round-trip to my mail box and depending on traffic I do it in 15-20 min. You better believe I count it.

That's about 60 net calories for a 200 pound human.

yet somehow she still reached her weight loss goal by counting.

in any case, you dont need to exercise to lose weight, so it doesnt really matter what people log or dont log, especially considering that MFP starts most people's base calories off lower than needed

Apparently she doesn't check her mail very often according to her diary with only one walk logged in the month of July ... and that with the typical MFP overage of 114 cals for 30 minutes at 3mph ... when she netted about half of that.

I was on vacation for 2 weeks... and yes, I really didn't bother to log. And it didn't hurt me either.