house cleaning not exercise?

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  • limesublime
    limesublime Posts: 118 Member
    I used to clean houses for a living, and didn't have an HRM at the time, but after 8 hours of cleaning I was FAMISHED. When I got a desk job, I gained about 20 lbs (little to no change in diet) so I have to believe all that housecleaning burned some good calories.

    Now my rule of thumb is that if I'm sweating and my feet hurt after a good few hours of cleaning, then I count the calories - those two signs are my signals that I pushed beyond normal housecleaning stuff and probably worked into a calorie deficit.
  • SashaMegan
    SashaMegan Posts: 110 Member
    If it's the regular 30-minute housecleaning then I don't consider it as exercise, but if it takes 2hrs and makes me sweat... then yes, I log it.

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