can i record ANY exercise i do in the day if i set my lifest

someonelikemyself

i set my lifestlye on MFP as sedentary but i move around the house, exercise, cook and clean
so can't i just keep it as sedentary and count EVERY task i do as an exercise
for example. today i moved around the house for around 3 hours total so i counted that as a slow walk for 60 minutes to keep it a minimum...
can i do that? im using the sedentary lifestyle as a bmR basically.
i'm confused and i hope you understand what i mean!!

Painten

I have mine set at sedentary. I therefore log all my exercise. I don't however log regular housework - I did spend a day at a trying to help clean a horders house and i sure logged that - shopping etc.

It says ont he description for people who don't do a lot, have office jobs etc i figure that when i had an office job i still went and did shopping and did housework etc so it'd not do to add it in separate.

RobertaG

When you set your activity level to sedentary, MFP still gives you a few extra hundred calories. For example I set my account to sedentary and my BMR is 1250 calories, but MFP says I burn 1600 a day. So they already count small calories like walking 2.0 and standing and typing, etc.

someonelikemyself

oh okayy but i didnt think they gave me extra cals because my calorie goal everyday is 1200, its a minimum :S but maybe its because i want to lose a pound a week. Thank you for your answers i just kept it as a 60 minute walk since i was dealing with kids today!