Housework should be exercise

shadykins

I just joined MFP a couple weeks ago and have been doing pretty good although I have only recorded exercise once as besides the odd walk all my exercise is done cleaning houses. I own a company with a couple other girls working for me and thats what we do. I work by butt off and sweat for 2 to 3 hours per house and clean approximately 6 houses a week and I should be alble to log that for my exercise but its not there and of course I have no idea how many calories it burns so I cant add it. We also do yard work so I sometimes cut lawns and weed gardens. Can somebody help me with the housework thing as far as logging it into the exercise...how many calories would I burn per hour????

Also, looking for friend support to lose and maintain and reach goal before Christmas.

glittermouse

You can log it. Look for 'cleaning'. There's light to moderate as well as heavy (lifting boxes)

shadykins

Oh really. I tried housecleaning, house cleaning, house work...everything but. Thanks for letting me know. I may go back and record all my exercise over the past week.

JudyZ

Yep! That's all there! Cleaning, lifting boxes, gardening! Definitely log it!!!

LittleFootHafner

You should also consider what you put your daily activity as, so that you don't end up recording it twice...

shortee75

definitely there because I log it when I do my major cleaning to my house every Saturday

Cleaning, light, moderate effort

Hope you can find it

digby765

you absolutely can, try looking for Cleaning, light, moderate effort and Cleaning, heavy, vigorous effort, they are deffinately there i use them both from time to time,.

It may be better to alter your status to very physical, and then simply add the work/exercise you do that is not part of a normal day.

Hope you get it sorted to your liking.:flowerforyou:

shadykins

Thanks everyone!!! Have added them all for the past week.