pharmacy technician - burning calories?

ladyarkham

Hey y'all!

After a particularly strenuous night at work, I'd love to be able to log my hours waiting on customers, putting away stock, standing, walking, bending, stretching, and stressing out, as exercise. I don't want to cheat my way into extra edible calories though. Is there a fair way to measure how many calories I'm likely to burn at work, and should those count as exercise for MFP planning purposes?

Nyrissa

Oh man. I'm sure you burn plenty. There's days where I was dripping with sweat from all the stuff I do.

You can put it as light cleaning or something like that that isn't likely to take too much off, but still work towards your exercise goals a bit.

crobinson0923

I do not think that these can be counted as extra calories burned, because your body is used to it. Any tracked activity should be above and beyond what you are used to, even though that is definitely better than a desk job. I am not 100% sure, but that's what ive heard. Good luck.

acasey0123

its your normal day activities so where you do daily activities setting put it as like most active instead of like sedentery or lightly active

Shannonigans84

I would change your settings to active, then log the extra workouts you do. This will give you a higher amount of calories and account for all the time at work.