Christmas Tree Decorating (What exercise?)

SezxyStef

I have a tendancy to be blunt myself so take it or leave it.

Putting up your Christmas tree logged as exercise? Really?

Exercise is defined as activity requiring physical effort, carried out esp. to sustain or improve health and fitness.

You put your Christmas tree up every year even before joining MFP and it didn't help you lose weight or have better health then either....

It might be different if you walked a mile finding the tree, cut it down with an axe and drug it back to the truck in 3ft of snow using snowshoes but really you picked up a box and carried it upstairs/downstairs. I sweat when I spring/fall clean or mow the lawn in the heat of the summer doesn't mean it's exercise.

BTW I shovelled my driveway (just the mouth of it) and it took 45mins to clear it out enough to get my car out....I am sore (even tho I lift) and I didn't count it, why because I did that while I was fat too, it didn't make me healthier or skinnier. Mind you I was a lot more sore when I was fat and way out of breath.

Well, I went to the gym, ran, biked, etc. for decades off and on without getting skinnier, so I guess by your logic I can't log exercise at the gym, running, or biking as exercise either.

If it's exercise [burning calories] that isn't accounted for in your basic activity to calculate your calorie goals, why shouldn't you log it?

I will respond this poster as they are here...

My logic said "Exercise is defined as activity requiring physical effort, carried out esp. to sustain or improve health and fitness."

So the gym, running and biking was done to sustain or improve your health and fitness right???? So my logic applies...

If you are burning calories that is not account for in your basic activity but it's something you do daily up your "daily activity level" if it's a once a year thing do you really think it was purposeful for health and fitness?

But let's be realistic if getting groceries and light cleaning burned enough calories to help with health and fitness we wouldn't need sites like this....

seltzermint555

I probably wouldn't even log it but if I did, I'd put in 40 min light cleaning (at most).