Do you really burn all those calories cleaning?
debmartin06
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I spent 3 hours cleaning out the garage today and entered it into MFP as light/moderate cleaning. It told me I burned around 500 calories. This seemed really high to me. Do you really burn so many calories just by cleaning?
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I just spent all day digging, moving flower beds and pulling weeds. I entered in 6 hours general gardening and it gave me over 1000 calories. I just adjusted my time to about 2 hours and counted around 500. I think the estimates are high.0
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I think so too. I do not normally log cleaning, but it was above my normal activity level. I think my activity is set as sedentary because of my desk job.0
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I dunno... if you're doing a lot of sweeping, carrying, moving, lifting, loading, vacuuming, dusting, reaching, garbage runs and shoving furniture around for a few hours, I imagine the calories can add up! But I'm ever the optimist, ha ha0
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Yeah it seems high, but those numbers are so nice!0
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I spend a lot of time in the garden sitting and pulling weeds, when I do log it, if I have been out there 2 hours, I will only log 30 minutes. I figure better to error on the side of lower calories burned.0
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Yeah, I wonder, too. I spent 3 hours "moving household items", "moderate cleaning", etc.. and MFP gave me more calories than when I ran a HALF MARATHON. Go figure.0
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I spend a lot of time in the garden sitting and pulling weeds, when I do log it, if I have been out there 2 hours, I will only log 30 minutes. I figure better to error on the side of lower calories burned.
That's a good idea, I spent several hours in the garden today and I know I worked, but I didn't know what to do with it.0 -
MFP is really encouraging, but I always assume it's off by at least 100 calories when I enter my exercises. The numbers for practically everything just seem so high sometimes.0
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MFP numbers tend to be high imo0
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I think they are high also. I only included cleaning minutes if I am doing heavy duty cleaning, like today, I scrubbed walls, cupbourds and floors by hand in preparation for painting my kitchen. I don't think regular vacuuming, dishes laundry etc. burns that many calories. If it did, I probably wouldn't have needed to be here in the first place0
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MFP numbers tend to be high imo0
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All calorie counters include BMR. which will be 100-180 calories an hour give or take. (and about 50 an hour while asleep) So 4 hours of doing XXXX activity will have burned 400-720 just from existing. so you have to subtract that from any total given to you.0
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Hi,
I am actually having a lot of problems with this. I work as a gardener and generally do 7 hours straight with very quick breaks for water and snacks. I have no idea how many calories I burn and do require more food on work days. I have been giving myself 400-500 extra calories and it feels right at the end of the day (not hungry or full). I like MFP because its so exacting and I would like to know how much I am burning. I've been looking into getting one of the wrist/arm bands that monitor your calories burned. Has anyone tried this? I've been swaying back and forth trying to justify the cost and the eye rolls from friends and family0 -
All calorie counters include BMR. which will be 100-180 calories an hour give or take. (and about 50 an hour while asleep) So 4 hours of doing XXXX activity will have burned 400-720 just from existing. so you have to subtract that from any total given to you.
Is it the same with an HRM?0 -
I generally don't eat back my exercise calories, but I do log it to keep track. On something like that, I only log half the time. I feel like the estimated burn is high.0
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If your heart rate isn't increasing while you're cleaning, then I doubt you're burning off too many extra calories (ie beyond what your body naturally burns throughout the day).
I usually only log cleaning if I've done a lot of vacuuming and sweeping, and I adjust what MFP tells me down by a lot.0 -
All calorie counters include BMR. which will be 100-180 calories an hour give or take. (and about 50 an hour while asleep) So 4 hours of doing XXXX activity will have burned 400-720 just from existing. so you have to subtract that from any total given to you.
Is it the same with an HRM?0 -
Theres a way you can figure out how many calories you burned. I think you take your body weight times it by 0.98 (or 0.96 I don't quite remember) and times that number by the minutes you did the activity. Not sure how accurate that is. I think its just a ball park figure.0
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Theres a way you can figure out how many calories you burned. I think you take your body weight times it by 0.98 (or 0.96 I don't quite remember) and times that number by the minutes you did the activity. Not sure how accurate that is. I think its just a ball park figure.0
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Probably better to use a heart rate monitor for those things I guess. I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on it. It will be really nice to see better estimates geared toward me and not some standard.0
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