work calories???

anikab

I work at Sonic, and am literally running from car to car about seven hours per day (10am to 5pm). My question is,do I log those hours as any sort of exercise or no? I still go to the gym every other day before work anyway too.

Nikiki

set your activity level to active and that will account for those calories burned. I used to work at Starbucks & bartended and was running around all day long and had mine at active and it worked for me, when I got a desk job I had to drop it to sedentary.

anikab

Well I wore my hrm a few days in a row and was burning about 3000 calories each day so I was super confused about through calorie intake adjustment. I don't have a desire to stuff my face but I just want to make sure my body gets enough especially since I'm in 105 degree heat.

JesterMFP

I'm not sure how accurate that would be as I believe HRMs are designed to be used when you are doing cardio. I've heard that they don't track calorie burns that accurately otherwise.

Like the previous poster, I would not log this activity as "exercise", but account for it when you set your activity level with MFP (in your diet/fitness profile under 'settings"). You're clearly not sedentary, probably more like active. Then MFP would give you a calorie goal based on that. To me, that makes more sense than trying to log it as additional exercise.

sgarrard01

Why not get a fit bit pedomiter?! Then you can accurately track steps taken/calories burnt?

anikab

Why not get a fit bit pedomiter?! Then you can accurately track steps taken/calories burnt?

I've never heard of the fit bit! I'll Google. Thankfully I don't eat work food! I don't log the work calories though so glad to know I'm not cheating.

tryinghard71

I agree a fitbit is what you need.