Input from adults please?

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  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    I don't log anything that was part of my regular life before like cleaning or shopping, only workouts I do specifically for exercise. Unless you truly stayed home, sat on the couch and did nothing before, I would say those things are included in your allowed calories.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    I was just thinking about it one night. I mean if I walk around the mall for an hour I log it, so why not sex? Haha.

    I wouldn't log wandering around the mall either unless I was doing walking lunges while I was shopping.

    Edited to add: Looking at the OP's bio she's a recovering from an ED, eating at 1,000 calories or less a day with an UGW of less than 100 lbs, so take that for what it's worth in questions about logging exercise.
  • 3RachaelFaith3
    3RachaelFaith3 Posts: 283 Member
    I was just thinking about it one night. I mean if I walk around the mall for an hour I log it, so why not sex? Haha.

    I wouldn't log wandering around the mall either unless I was doing walking lunges while I was shopping.

    Edited to add: Looking at the OP's bio she's a recovering from an ED, eating at 1,000 calories or less a day with an UGW of less than 100 lbs, so take that for what it's worth in questions about logging exercise.

    yep
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    Oh schnap, another one of these threads. Let's just pretend I said something terribly inappropriate and hilarious.
  • lasmit4477
    lasmit4477 Posts: 308 Member
    walking the dog... uphill



    Lmao!!!! Yes, this!!!!
  • Debbs83
    Debbs83 Posts: 39 Member
    No I don't log sex. I also don't log walking or cleaning - they are normal activites and not exercise for me personally. I
  • MikeInAZ
    MikeInAZ Posts: 483 Member
    Wear a Heart Rate Monitor and figure out how many calories you burn. I suggested I do this once with the Mrs. She wasn't thrilled with the idea. In my book, what ever I burn is just icing on the cake. Let it be one of lifes little mysteries!
  • wolfgate
    wolfgate Posts: 321 Member
    I only log true exercise as activity. So I don't count cleaning, walking the dog, sex. etc. Just my preference, but...
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'll file this under activities that burn far fewer calories than people think so that when a post comes back about gaining weight on a deficit I can ask, "do you log and eat back sex calories?" in my response. There are numerous things that people do in their day to day...even something as intense as sex can be that simply don't have the kind of calorie burn that people think they do.

    The only way I would even consider it is if I could go a full 30-40 minutes without stopping. Pretty much fantasy land for me, my wife gets me way to hot to go that long.

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