Calories burned while grocery shopping

Mokey41

One of us doesn't understand what is included in the "sedentary" setting.

(...and it may be me.)

The basics of a sedentary setting:

Sleeping - 8 hours
Personal care (dressing, showering) - 1 hour
Eating - 1 hour
Cooking - 1 hour
Sitting (office work, selling produce, tending shop) - 8 hours
Driving car to/from work - 1 hour
General household work - 1 hour
Light leisure activities (watching TV, chatting) - 3 hours

Gwen_B

I would never!! I only log exercise as exercise. No shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc! My exercise makes me sweat and sore!!!

blixglintz

Monty, gross profile pic. Hilarious comment #funwit

Shopper, I think this comes down to personal choice. You are in fact burning calories. If you want to spend the time and/or it helps keep you motivated and stay on your game - go for it. We use an app on our phones (mapmy fitness) when we run that tells us pretty well what we burned. Do what works for you.

cwolfman13

LOL...grocery shopping is just a part of life, not exercise...unless you are indeed totally sedentary...like you crawl out of bed and go take a dump and then crawl back into bed or out to the couch kind of sedentary.

I'm going to Costco in about 30 minutes...I just got back from the gym...they're two completely different things.

MyChocolateDiet

I don't think so, regular activity like that is already part of your TDEE.

I am inclined to believe your answer as it seems like you know your stuff and that you know what you are talking about simply because of the skill with which you wear your swimwear.

MyChocolateDiet

One of us doesn't understand what is included in the "sedentary" setting.

(...and it may be me.)

The basics of a sedentary setting:

Sleeping - 8 hours
Personal care (dressing, showering) - 1 hour
Eating - 1 hour
Cooking - 1 hour
Sitting (office work, selling produce, tending shop) - 8 hours
Driving car to/from work - 1 hour
General household work - 1 hour
Light leisure activities (watching TV, chatting) - 3 hours

Oh then is there a negative sedentary mode? B/c I don't work, and sometimes my husband cooks, and sometimes I don't even have to do the "light housework" it gets done by someone who is not me. Is there like a Negentary mode (negative sedentary)? Or a spa mode or something?

whitebalance

I don't think so, regular activity like that is already part of your TDEE.

I am inclined to believe your answer as it seems like you know your stuff and that you know what you are talking about simply because of the skill with which you wear your swimwear.

Agree, we have finally encountered a true expert. Masterful use of spot color, too. I'm sold.

davert123

It depends on what you have put for your lifestyle and how you want to progress with this in general. If you are using MFP to its full potential to try and eat to a deficit you have set yourself instead of randomly guessing then I would consider them. If you have set your lifestyle to sedentary I would definitely book them. I know it isn't formal exercise but it does burn calories and if you don't book it then you will burn more than what you think. You may be happy with this or you may not. I am definitely in favor of hitting a deficit I know .. because it works for me. For this I book most things I do if they include burning calories.

whitebalance

I should try to be helpful to the OP. If you're using MFP's NEAT approach to calorie tracking, then you should log whatever physical activity isn't included in your selected activity level. I've found that the "sedentary" setting accounts for a couple miles' worth of walking on my Fitbit.... More than that, it does make a difference. Like MyChocolateDiet above, I lost the first 20-25 pounds mostly by walking more. Several miles a day more, but yes, that made the difference. And it still works.

davert123

I don't think so, regular activity like that is already part of your TDEE.

I am inclined to believe your answer as it seems like you know your stuff and that you know what you are talking about simply because of the skill with which you wear your swimwear.

Agree, we have finally encountered a true expert. Masterful use of spot color, too. I'm sold.

your actual TDEE is how many calories you really burn so everything you do from shopping to sleeping forms part of it.
The value set in MFP used to calculate your daily requirements is based on a guess of how many calories you will burn in a day . This is derived from a formula which gives a population average resting calorie burn + a population average burn based on the guess of lifestyle you put in. For me I put sedentary and the MFP value is only a couple hundred over the value I would use if I was in bed. When I do this almost any activity is addition to this. I could book a more energy consuming lifestyle but that doesn't seem as accurate as putting the lowest and then adding everything. These numbers are only ever guesses though. I check mine by plotting my weight and ensuring that over time (monthly) the drop is what MFP predicts. I can then tweak what I add or not to the daily usage to fine tune it. This works. I've kept a constant 2lb a week loss for nearly 4 months :-)

Cheeky_and_Geeky

Ok so this what I think about not logging daily activities. I was doing Zumba 60min 3X week, strength training sessions 2X week, Tabata once a week, etc etc & still fat. Why? Because I was eating fast food twice a day & eating too many sweets. So those activities don't count?

Now I eat less & count most daily activities that I do. Under cardio in the diary, there's one that says Pushing Stroller & I use that one for pushing the shopping cart. I think it's the same as 2 mph walk. But it all depends on how many calories your eating now. I set mine as sedetary, count everything that I do (housework, etc) and eat all my calories back. I don't have a normal day to day schedule & this works for me. Good luck

teamAmelia

No. How much walking are you really doing? Most of the time, I walk down the aisle and stand there for a few seconds to find what I'm looking for, walk a few more feet, repeat. Not worth the time to calculate it.

Katsumii

I don't think so, regular activity like that is already part of your TDEE.

I am inclined to believe your answer as it seems like you know your stuff and that you know what you are talking about simply because of the skill with which you wear your swimwear.

Agree, we have finally encountered a true expert. Masterful use of spot color, too. I'm sold.

Nope, never claimed to be an expert, just giving my opinion like everyone else.

Mokey41

One of us doesn't understand what is included in the "sedentary" setting.

(...and it may be me.)

The basics of a sedentary setting:

Sleeping - 8 hours
Personal care (dressing, showering) - 1 hour
Eating - 1 hour
Cooking - 1 hour
Sitting (office work, selling produce, tending shop) - 8 hours
Driving car to/from work - 1 hour
General household work - 1 hour
Light leisure activities (watching TV, chatting) - 3 hours

Oh then is there a negative sedentary mode? B/c I don't work, and sometimes my husband cooks, and sometimes I don't even have to do the "light housework" it gets done by someone who is not me. Is there like a Negentary mode (negative sedentary)? Or a spa mode or something?

You're probably one of the people who can get away with eating at 100 calories over BMR then and does your husband have an unmarried brother hanging around?

Sabine_Stroehm

Ive worn my HRM while grocery shopping. Nothing wrong with that. A calorie burned is a calorie burned.
11/05 am (grocery shopping)
Total Time - 40 min
In Zone - 0 min
Avg HR - 97 bpm
Peak HR - 110 bpm
Calories Burned - 425

Im going to wear my HRM for a whole day just to se what amounts of calories I burn on a normal non workout day.

425 calories for 40 minutes shopping? That's what I burn running 5k.

LiftAllThePizzas

Here's my fitbit data from today so far. I spent the morning mostly at the computer, an hour swimming (moderate effort but not constant or intense) and then went grocery shopping, drove home and made dinner.

Notice that I am burning about three times as any calories by simply being upright and standing/walking than I am when sitting around or driving. (I've been using the fitbit since January and it has been within a few percent of my TDEE.)

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So I burn about 100 extra calories in the process of grocery shopping or cooking a dinner, compared to what I would have by just sitting down the whole time. Whether you count your baseline as "sedentary" and add on those activities, or just adjust your TDEE upward assuming those activities are predictably a part of your routine, is totally up to you. But the important part is yes grocery shopping burns more calories than sitting around.

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Here's my fitbit data from today so far. I spent the morning mostly at the computer, an hour swimming (moderate effort but not constant or intense) and then went grocery shopping, drove home and made dinner.

Notice that I am burning about three times as any calories by simply being upright and standing/walking than I am when sitting around or driving. (I've been using the fitbit since January and it has been within a few percent of my TDEE.)

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So I burn about 100 extra calories in the process of grocery shopping or cooking a dinner, compared to what I would have by just sitting down the whole time. Whether you count your baseline as "sedentary" and add on those activities, or just adjust your TDEE upward assuming those activities are predictably a part of your routine, is totally up to you. But the important part is yes grocery shopping burns more calories than sitting around.

For clarity, your swimming burn is an estimate provided by fitbit for the manual entry...(unless you've figured out a way to wear it while swimming).

LiftAllThePizzas

Here's my fitbit data from today so far. I spent the morning mostly at the computer, an hour swimming (moderate effort but not constant or intense) and then went grocery shopping, drove home and made dinner.

Notice that I am burning about three times as any calories by simply being upright and standing/walking than I am when sitting around or driving. (I've been using the fitbit since January and it has been within a few percent of my TDEE.)

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So I burn about 100 extra calories in the process of grocery shopping or cooking a dinner, compared to what I would have by just sitting down the whole time. Whether you count your baseline as "sedentary" and add on those activities, or just adjust your TDEE upward assuming those activities are predictably a part of your routine, is totally up to you. But the important part is yes grocery shopping burns more calories than sitting around.

For clarity, your swimming burn is an estimate provided by fitbit for the manual entry...(unless you've figured out a way to wear it while swimming).

Yessir. I used MFP's "swimming, moderate effort" for this one.

Although I have considered stuffing it in a ziploc bag. :laugh:

SonicDeathMonkey80

I usually pop a Gu before roaming the aisles, and I bring a protein shake to chug after I put stuff like gallons of milk and potatoes in the cart. Every lil bit counts when you wanna lose weight and get totally jacked! Also, don't forget to hydrate.