How would you log this? Or would you?

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  • Sasha_Bear
    Sasha_Bear Posts: 625 Member
    I wouldn't bother logging especially if you weren't wearing a hrm while cooking there is no accurate way to count the calories burned. I would just take pride in knowing I burned some extra calories not necessary to log in my humble opinion.
  • WatchMomRun
    WatchMomRun Posts: 91
    I really think it depends on which activity setting you have listed for yourself.

    Mine is set at "lightly active" which means I spend most of my days on my feet but not doing manual labor. One of the examples they use for lightly active is a "nurse" which is what I am. I am running my butt off at my job going up and down the hallways and assisting pts out of bed etc. And on my days off I am still on my feet, cooking, cleaning, and chasing after a 4 year old, and taking my 2 other children to their activities.

    I do not log any of this because MFP assumes that I am doing all of this and has built into my calorie allotment the appropriate amt of calories I can eat each day.

    Only if I do manual labor or exercise do I log it.
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    In general, I log about half of something like that, after subtracting the calories from your BMR for that same time period.
  • Nopedotjpeg
    Nopedotjpeg Posts: 1,805 Member
    If your activity level is set to sedentary, then log part of it; maybe even only half. The location or intention doesn't really matter much for calories burned. It still happens, and rationalizing underfeeding is just as damaging as rationalizing overfeeding.
  • ezramedic
    ezramedic Posts: 119
    I would log it, but subtract the calories you would've burned just by being alive. Basically dividing your BMR by 24 and then times that number 6. Then subtracting the [(BMR / 24) x 6] number from the Calories Burned Number :-)

    Does that even make sense??? LOL!
  • Bmontgomery613
    Bmontgomery613 Posts: 200 Member
    When I do cooking or cleaning (or the walking part of shopping), I usually log half the time I did. So if I cooked for 2 hours, I just log 1 hour. Makes the calories burned seem a little more realistic to me.

    As for shopping, I usually log walking at the slowest speed. Why? Because they say you burn 100 calories/hour just by standing up.

    This.
  • afwatson15
    afwatson15 Posts: 39 Member
    I was lazy and didn't read the entire thread - so if posted already just tell me to be quiet and sit in the corner.

    I think you need to subtract out what you would normally burn in that time frame so you don't double count calorie loss.

    For instance, my BMR is 1816 - and even though I burn more during the day than at night, I'll just simplify the math. 1816 divided by 24 hours = 76 calories per hour. Multiply that by 6 hour = 454 calories doing absolutely nothing. Multiply this by 1.2 to get to my sedentary level = 544.8 calories burned in 6 hours doing very little.

    So, if you're cooking actively for 6 hours, there's a very good chance you burned around 1,000. Just be sure to log the DIFFERENCE between your normal level and the active level. For my example - it would be in the neighborhood of 460 calories.
  • JLLemons
    JLLemons Posts: 16 Member
    1000 might be a little extreme but I'm sure you atleast burned a couple of hundred..maybe a little more

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