lets ban light house cleaning from mfp

YukonJoy

why is it always a man on here trying to say cleaning isn't work/worth logging?? hmmmm

Because 99.9% of the male population has never picked up a broom in their life. The other .1% are single fathers [mommy & daddy]

yes that was the point I was inadvertently making. I always want to ask, have you ever cleaned a bathroom top to bottom? toilet, tub, sink, floors? baseboards? If not (and probably not) shut the hell up.

That being said I don't log cleaning but it can be a workout. I realize he is speaking of light cleaning. But my point still being made, it's always a man complaining about people who log cleaning.

I don't log cleaning.....then I don't log my reward glass of wine or two after. It all evens out in the end. :happy:

lilRicki

Cleaning is great exercise...I do stairs (2 flights when doing laundry), squats (spot cleaning the wall/floors), lunges (putting clothes away), I bust my *kitten* when I'm cleaning the tub and toilet...scrubbing is a hard work out on the arms and lower back. Mopping floors is a full body work out. I'm sweating bombs, and damn tired in the three hours it takes to clean my house...even if it is light or moderate effort, I'm still doing stairs, hauling heavy baskets, and someone has to put that *kitten* away! So no, we should not eliminate house cleaning as exercise!

tonihayden

let's ban judging other peoples choices under the guise of "helping" them.

AWESOME!

dp1228

I partly agree. Everyone is free to define their own exercise but personally doing daily tasks such as cleaning, washing hair and taking a shower doesn't usually go into my exercise diary. It just gives me an excuse to eat more which is going to hurt my progress more then help it. I usually dont even put down walks. Now my HIIT, strength training and Kickboxing definitely make it in there! When I can remember to log it lol.

Bronx_Montgomery

hahaha.....Yeah i think its crazy. Take away burning calories by cooking a meal. Those are everyday things. Unless you are going out and actually catching your meal then it shouldn't count.

officer214

Let's also ban going out for a walk because that's not strenuous enough. Anything less than a 300 calorie burn is not exercise.

Now that the sarcasm is out of the way...

You have to move and you have to eat. What you put into your pie hole is 80 percent of weight loss (figures not verified.) Maybe the people who log light house work as exercise have been so unmotivated for so long and they're just now trying to change things up. Good for them. That light house work is going to turn into a walk or a jog or Zumba.

Let's encourage one another instead of calling the people who don't work out as hard as someone else lazy.

Melyssaks

good luck on that. Just curious, why do you care what others log? Does it affect you in some way?

Exactly what I was thinking...The point of having MFP is to be supportive but criticize. Heck if it gives them motivation to get off the couch and do something productive who cares if they add a couple extra calories to their diet (the amount of calories you get doing light cleaning is so small it doesn't really matter anyway).

For some people who are larger just getting up and walking around the room/ bending up can be tough work. I compliment them for anything they're doing to make their life style better, no matter how small.

MILFdoesabodyGd

why is it always a man on here trying to say cleaning isn't work/worth logging?? hmmmm

Because 99.9% of the male population has never picked up a broom in their life. The other .1% are single fathers [mommy & daddy]

yes that was the point I was inadvertently making. I always want to ask, have you ever cleaned a bathroom top to bottom? toilet, tub, sink, floors? baseboards? If not (and probably not) shut the hell up.

That being said I don't log cleaning but it can be a workout. I realize he is speaking of light cleaning. But my point still being made, it's always a man complaining about people who log cleaning.

I don't log cleaning.....then I don't log my reward glass of wine or two after. It all evens out in the end. :happy:

LOL I don't always log the wine I drink either. you're right there.

Ladyiianae

Every BITE, LICK and TASTE you take counts when tracking your food because a "calorie is a calorie is a calorie"...wouldn't burning them work the same?

tonihayden

Cleaning is great exercise...I do stairs (2 flights when doing laundry), squats (spot cleaning the wall/floors), lunges (putting clothes away), I bust my *kitten* when I'm cleaning the tub and toilet...scrubbing is a hard work out on the arms and lower back. Mopping floors is a full body work out. I'm sweating bombs, and damn tired in the three hours it takes to clean my house...even if it is light or moderate effort, I'm still doing stairs, hauling heavy baskets, and someone has to put that *kitten* away! So no, we should not eliminate house cleaning as exercise!

THANK YOU!!!
I'M A SWEATY MESS AFTER A TOTAL POWER CLEAN ANS EVEN IF IT'S "LIGHT" I AM UP AND DOWN STAIRS LUGGING A HEAVY SWEEPER ALL AROUND ETC.......................IT COUNTS

tamheath

Three cheers for reviewing the original post, then giggling and clicking on the last page of replies to see how ridiculous the conversation has gotten. :drinker:

One of my favorite activities. :drinker:

kristina509

ANY activity you do outside of your normal "lifestyle" activity does your body good and counts for calories. The reason it doesn't do you any good is because you do it daily...that isn't the case for someone who leads a more sedentary lifestyle and doesn't clean their house daily.

This is the reason so many people on here keep their information private...too many people who are hurting instead of helping and encouraging.

Siannah

Nooo don't ban it!

People will be fat AND live in a dirty house. Why would you want that?

mrschappet

Have you ever tried to climb the steps of a lighthouse? Not even thinking about mopping each step as you go and scrubbing the walls! Anyone who has committed to lighthouse cleaning has undertaken a serious task and you should be ashamed for making...er...light of their work!

LMAO! YES, WHAT THIS WISE MAN SAID :-)

FitLink

Wow, I bet it's fun to be YOUR friend. WTF do you care what someone else considers exercise? Frankly I NEVER clean my own house, I pay someone to do it. So those rare times when I do a deep clean I have worn my HRM and I do break a sweat. Of course I'm a fat@ss so what's strenuous and burns calories for me probably wouldn't do a thing for someone as fit and awesome as yourself.

It's actually quite fun being his friend
I see his point and I see yours also. The bigger problem is the fact you got so worked up over a silly post
Also light housecleaning does not do anything calories burned wise bc if it had I would be in great shape because I clean a mean house DAILY!

So if I run 5 miles a day a shouldn't count that as exercise? Great logic.

Of course not. What you do every day is just part of your LIFE, not exercise! ;-P You only get to log stuff you don't do all the time. Or maybe it's stuff the judges think is "real" exercise...it can get pretty complicated. So just assume that we should ban logging as exercise anything you do daily or almost daily.... ;-X Because that "does not do anything burned calorie wise." I guess the researchers who said otherwise are just not as smart as the people at MFP, what with all those doctorates and all...

Levine, J.A., Eberhardt, N.L., and Jensen, M.D., Role of Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis in Resistance to Fat Gain in Humans. Science, 8 January 1999, pp. 212-214.

shortandfeisty

Bump to all the posters who disagree with judging other people's exercise logs.

jnettiedotson

I have 4 kids, sometimes all I get a chance to do is LIGHT house cleaning, with twin toddlers running behind me messing it up all over again. I could say, **** it, and sit my big *kitten* on the couch all day and live in filth....but I get up, I do it...and I burn SOMETHING. Too bad chasing twins isn't listed, I'd log that **** too. LOL

SilentRenegade

why is it always a man on here trying to say cleaning isn't work/worth logging?? hmmmm

Because 99.9% of the male population has never picked up a broom in their life. The other .1% are single fathers [mommy & daddy]

yes that was the point I was inadvertently making. I always want to ask, have you ever cleaned a bathroom top to bottom? toilet, tub, sink, floors? baseboards? If not (and probably not) shut the hell up.

That being said I don't log cleaning but it can be a workout. I realize he is speaking of light cleaning. But my point still being made, it's always a man complaining about people who log cleaning.

I don't log cleaning.....then I don't log my reward glass of wine or two after. It all evens out in the end. :happy:

LOL I don't always log the wine I drink either. you're right there.

I definitely don't log my wine, mainly because I forget to. :drinker:

sailinjen

Susie q...lmao!!! Sex in the shower burns tons of calories....I heard!!!!

crystal_loga

I sit down at a desk all day Mon-Fri 7am-4pm. Most of the time I get no exercise at all in. So on weekends when I spend the day busting butt and cleaning house, I do log that as calories burned. I feel that the amount of calories burned that MFP shows on the site is a little excessive, so I usually log half the time I actually cleaned. I do not log daily laundry, dishes, etc. I only log when I actually get a good cleaning in, such as mopping floors, cleaning the entire house or something that is not a normal daily routine.

But, to each his/her own.....it doesn't matter what we log and what we don't. If we are not putting in the effort to eat right and move our bodies, the scale won't move. So it shouldn't matter what someone logs. I can log calories burned everyday, but if I'm not actually burning them, then I'm the one who fails and pays the price.

AWME

What?! I can log that?! AWESOME!!

I agree! All this time I've been missing out on logging it?!

jenalderman

For some people....myself at times....it is too hard to categorize our lives as sedentary....slightly active....etc. I have some days when I can not move away from my desk and some days that I run all day long. I CHOOSE to leave my activity level at sedentary to cover me on those sedentary days. Therefore.....if I spend a lot of the day walking or yes....even working in the yard or around the house....I LOG it. Now, I would hardly call myself a lazy person. I work a full time job, make time to run 2-3 miles nearly every day as well as a long run on weekends, and I keep up with my house and meals and usually actually sit down around 10pm for 1 hour per day of TV time. Who's to judge me on what I log or don't log. My little ticker speaks for itself. I think that if some people spent more time WORKING and less time stirring up s#!%, their tickers might be a little further along.

MILFdoesabodyGd

I have to do laundry at the laundry mat, and I live on the 2nd floor of a house. Usually when I get time to go there's about 5 baskets of it. That's 10 times up and down the stairs going there, and 10 times up and down the stairs coming back. Plus everything in between like carrying to and from the car at the mat and putting it away. Again, no I do not log it, but it's definitely a workout and just a bonus for me

SenoraMacias

I have a 2 story, 6 bedroom house, which is mostly hardwood floors. When I spend 2 hours mopping, scrubbing, and going up and down stairs, I SWEAT! That said... I don't generally log it as exercise, but I don't doubt it burns some calories.

insatiable_need

Have you ever tried to climb the steps of a lighthouse? Not even thinking about mopping each step as you go and scrubbing the walls! Anyone who has committed to lighthouse cleaning has undertaken a serious task and you should be ashamed for making...er...light of their work!

HAHA! Awesome. But I agree with many of the other posters. As long as someone is burning calories, they're trying. When I weighed 280 lbs, it was all I could do to get light housework done. It wasn't a matter of laziness. I was SERIOUSLY obese and had trouble getting around. Now that I weigh half that much, I am more active because I choose to be. To each his own.

crystal_loga

When I first started here, I was over 400 lbs, and "light house cleaning" left me in a sweat with back pain so severe I could cry. It's not about whether or not it's work for YOU, it's about whether or not it's work for the person doing it. I know you think you were being funny, but really, you were belittling and ridiculing the efforts of others. I don't enter "light house cleaning" anymore unless I've gone on an hour-long sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming binge that leaves me sweating. Otherwise, that's not exercise for ME anymore. But it is for someone, and I'm not about to giggle at them and tell them that their efforts aren't worthy of consideration.

You should try that.

This. A hundred thousand ga-jillion times, this.

This!!!!!!!!!!!!! My thoughts exactly!!!

fbmandy55

Wow, I bet it's fun to be YOUR friend. WTF do you care what someone else considers exercise? Frankly I NEVER clean my own house, I pay someone to do it. So those rare times when I do a deep clean I have worn my HRM and I do break a sweat. Of course I'm a fat@ss so what's strenuous and burns calories for me probably wouldn't do a thing for someone as fit and awesome as yourself.

It's actually quite fun being his friend
I see his point and I see yours also. The bigger problem is the fact you got so worked up over a silly post
Also light housecleaning does not do anything calories burned wise bc if it had I would be in great shape because I clean a mean house DAILY!

So if I run 5 miles a day a shouldn't count that as exercise? Great logic.

Of course not. What you do every day is just part of your LIFE, not exercise! ;-P You only get to log stuff you don't do all the time. Or maybe it's stuff the judges think is "real" exercise...it can get pretty complicated. So just assume that we should ban logging as exercise anything you do daily or almost daily.... ;-X Because that "does not do anything burned calorie wise." I guess the researchers who said otherwise are just not as smart as the people at MFP, what with all those doctorates and all...

Levine, J.A., Eberhardt, N.L., and Jensen, M.D., Role of Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis in Resistance to Fat Gain in Humans. Science, 8 January 1999, pp. 212-214.

I just really wanna buy a heart rate monitor to see what my "saturday cleaning routine" burns. I sweat, I get winded (especially on my hardwood floors) and I feel if after!

heatherterp

if sex is not in there why is house cleaning. my vacuum is heavy and can give me a burn, but sex is a better burn,

SwannySez

Nooo don't ban it!

People will be fat AND live in a dirty house. Why would you want that?

Clearly the OP is an evil alien sent from the future to destroy humanity.

ncw89

Ok so I read this as "lighthouse cleaning". I was thinking "that'd be an AWESOME way to exercise!" :blushing:

But seriously, if it works for people to include that, then that's for them to decide. They're up on their feet, not vegetating in front of the idiot box. Personal choices, one step at a time.