I am not sure if I am calculating my exercise correctly

CARNAT22

Hi all,

I have now started adding in my daily exercise and am surprised that my calories are going up?

I can totally understand on days when I do a 30 minute cardio work-out I will need a few more calories but I walk 40 minutes daily (slow to medium pace) and I don't actually consider this exercise? Should I enter this or not??

Thanks

cerysrhi

I don't log my walking unless I go out for a walk as my daily exercise (on days when I don't do cardio) I do hours of walking each day with school runs and taking the children out for their play time but I don't include any of that I hope this helps

leomom72

personally, i think you should enter even the smallest of exercises. i do alot of 2 minute things from wii fit, and 2 minutes and 4 calories burned is enough to enter..i bet it would help..best luck

JustBill

Consider anything that is outside of your normal daily activities as exercise. Especially if you put yourself into the system as sedentary.

OperaticAnnihilator

I log all my walking bc I am burning calories whether I have to walk somewhere or I choose to just go walking.

Ambrogio1

I always air on the side of caution when it comes to logging calories. I estimate that I probably stay under 200 cals every day just from the innaccuracy of the system. i.e. adding extra calories for foods I am not certain of and underestimating my exercise calories. Nothing like losing more weekly then you thought.

CARNAT22

Well I do walk for the soul purpose of exercise.

I could get on a bus (5 minutes) but I opt to walk 20 minutes to and from station each day.

I have always done this though, even prior to deciding to loose weight. So it's exercise but also part of my daily routine if that makes sense?

I was under the impression I just had to log anything I do now in addition to my normal daily routine as it was prior to signing up here?

cerysrhi

I agree with justbill if you put you daily activity level down as sedentary then log it. I also find with this site we tend to underestimate the calories in the food and over estimate our exercise calories so it may be a thing to keep your walking calories in the bank so to speak to allow for these descrepencies but that's just what I would do - another option would be to log them for a week and eat them check your progress and then spend a week of not logging them and compare how you feel after each week and the results on the scales you can then make a decision from there x

CARNAT22

I agree with justbill if you put you daily activity level down as sedentary then log it. I also find with this site we tend to underestimate the calories in the food and over estimate our exercise calories so it may be a thing to keep your walking calories in the bank so to speak to allow for these descrepencies but that's just what I would do - another option would be to log them for a week and eat them check your progress and then spend a week of not logging them and compare how you feel after each week and the results on the scales you can then make a decision from there x

Excellent advice - many thanks.

As I only started logging my exercise today I have missed 3 days worth of "extra" calories anyway LOL! So I'll do this week on the lower calorie allowance

Do you really think this site underestimates the calories in food? I am pretty au fait with calorie value (I am a former dieter) and so far eveything I have logged seems to be pretty accurate (in terms of what it says on packaging / my prior knowledge!)

Car