How would you log this? Or would you?

Sasha_Bear

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

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

In general, I log about half of something like that, after subtracting the calories from your BMR for that same time period.

Nopedotjpeg

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

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

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

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

1000 might be a little extreme but I'm sure you atleast burned a couple of hundred..maybe a little more