shopping?

mum23

does shopping count?
went out christmas shopping with the darling man thing.
we were out for 6 hrs!!
for about an hour of it i was carrying 4kg weights!!
would it count?
i have put in 240 mins, 4 hrs, of walking at a slow pace.

superwmn

I would

spacecase76

I would as well. I put in Chuck E Cheese as exercise Saturday! Keeping up with my not-quite-3-year old in there for 4 hours was a tad....hectic.

Delicate

I would let it count, i walk into town which is about 4000 steps, one day a friend (i just counted with my ipod from the start of the shopping) hit over 11k steps walking about which works out as a number of calories, i didnt feel bad drinking a gingerbread latte !

kennedar

I dont normally, but I did this weekend. We were at the mall for 3 hours and I know that walking one loop of this mall is 2 kms (it was big news when it opened that it was so huge!) I figured because I was not trying things on or anything, and I was mostly walking the entire time that i would count it. I figured that normall I walk our dog for 40 minutes and burn about 300 calories according to my heart rate monitor. I figured for walking at the mall, it was probably a fair bit slower and time was spent looking at things and such, so 300 calories for an hour was probably about right. Times 3, that was 900 calories!