What to log?

dancinnat

I am constantly seeing some people on my FL log every single move they make into their exercises...everything from cleaning to getting their kids ready for school. How practical is this? Should I only log time on the treadmill? Or is every move I make really burning enough calories to log?

santini1975

I just count activity that makes me sweat. I think your mundane activities are accounted for in the number of calories your body just needs to survive! That's why you choose your normal activity level when determining how many calories you want to burn.

djshari

I agree with santini. Not much point in logging little things, log actual exercise.

flechero

Depends on your settings. If you are set to lightly active or active you log less. If you are set to sedentary, then you log more... if you had a fitbit you can set to sedentary and let the fitbit log everything for you (except some specific workouts)

The benefit of the fitbit is that you can set MFP to sedentary and then get a better sense of the cals earned through the day with fitbit's automated updating. And since no 2 days are alike, this is my preferred way of doing it.

rose313

I personally don't log anything I would have done before I started losing weight. If it didn't make me lose weight back then, it won't now, so there's no sense in logging little things like my walk to the car or going to Walmart.

Jccordova

I'm the same way, I only log when I actually go workout. At work I take the stairs but I don't log that. I guess everyone is different, but I only feel like I am actually burning calories when I workout. On days I don't workout I don't eat as much as I would on workout days.

elleloch

Yeah I don't log cleaning or jaunting to the mailbox or like, laundry, lol. Just workouts.

mwooderson

I only log exercise (cardio, weight training, yoga). The only time I log an activity not specific to exercise is unusual stuff like an hour vigorously raking leaving or something like that. But that is a once or twice a year rarity.