who logs house cleaning for exercise?

ajbeans

I log cleaning sometimes. Depends on what I'm doing, how active I've been lately, etc. I don't "clean" every day -- I pick up every day, but I vacuum 4 times a week, and mop when it needs done, and so on. So it's not a daily activity for me. And when I do log it, I eat all the calories.

As I've said on most of the other threads about this topic, it doesn't matter if you log it or not. Your body burns a certain amount of calories doing those things, and you need to eat enough to fuel your body. Cleaning does burn calories. The trick is to be honest with how hard you're working. If you pick up the toys in the living room and log it as 1 hour of heavy cleaning, you're going to be getting an inaccurate number of calories burned, so if you eat all of them, you'll be eating too much. If you scrub your house top to bottom and don't log it because you think cleaning doesn't count, you've burned a lot of calories anyway, so if you don't eat more you may not be getting enough calories to support all that activity. It's about being realistic with yourself.

lizziebeth1028

Never for routine stuff...it's just part of my day. But if I'm moving furniture around, scrubbing walls, yard work, cleaning the garage....things that are out of the norm......log it!!

patience842003

I drink so much water that I log the trips to the bathroom, lol. just kidding

LOL!!!! Tell me about it!!! I figure when I drink as much water as I'm supposed to that I'm going every 15 min... :P

....and yes I definitely add cleaning calories. Of course washing dishes isn't much of a burn :-) so it really depends on the cleaning and the intensity... Sometimes I think the calories burned is kind of high in the database so I've actually debated just not putting them in to my diary. I guess having an HRM might solve that so you would really know what you burned when you did it. :-)

peacheywoo

My job is mostly office or clinic based so I count that as sedentary. I count my overtime shifts in A&E as I only do them a couple of hours month and its 5 - 6 hours straight with no stopping and usually just water to drink.

I don't count the day to day stuff like packing/unpacking the dishwasher, making the bed etc.

When I have my weekend cleaning sessons I do count them - 1-2 hours ironing, full house clean, car wash etc.

I also count when I do work at the stables - hay, water and mucking out 6 horses gets me slightly out of breath hence I count it. The riding I count as exercise anyway.

Shirley61

Since it takes me 3 to 4 hours to clean my house I most
certainly use it as exercise.

Momof3PrincesandaPrincess

I log it, I don't use it as my main exercise but when I do it I log the credit for it. I hate doing it, it's such a boring thing so I figure I might as well see the burn for doing it.