I've personally added "Sitting at Work" as an exercise...
larrytsuei
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According to this chart: http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwork.htm
sitting at work actually burns 89 to 140 Calories per hour (depending on personal weight)
If I sit at work for 6-8 Hours everyday, I'd be burning 756-984 calories.
Should I do this? It just feels like an excuse to add more calories to use to eat hah!
sitting at work actually burns 89 to 140 Calories per hour (depending on personal weight)
If I sit at work for 6-8 Hours everyday, I'd be burning 756-984 calories.
Should I do this? It just feels like an excuse to add more calories to use to eat hah!
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This actually makes a lot of sense. I would love to know the answer to this too. Maybe yes if you're set to sedentary currently?0
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Your daily activities are built in. You should not count this.0
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that would depend on if you are still losing weight, if that is your goal????
When I stall then I start looking for why and what to change.0 -
MFP counts your BMR (the cals needed to keep your body alive), the cals needed to digest your food, plus some activity (depending on what you set it at). My BMR (had it tested in a lab) is around 1600, or 1.1 cal/minute. That's if I did nothing at all. Your 89-140 estimate for sitting includes BMR plus digestion--and isn't that much more than the 67 I burn not moving a muscle. I wouldn't add it.0
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Built in, you should not add them again.0
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As others have said, these calories are built in to your activity level. I really like this calculator:
http://www.health-calc.com/diet/energy-expenditure-advanced
You can play around with it to get an idea of how much you burn on any given day, based on the actual activities you did that day (sitting, running, sleeping, whatever).0 -
Sitting isn't exercise. And it's already built into your activity level. Don't log it.0
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Your daily activities are built in. You should not count this.0
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apparently we burn more calories sleeping than sitting.
maybe you should just quit your job and sleep all day?
although i dont know if it would be worth doing that just to be able to eat the food back since you wouldnt be able to afford food anyway with no income.
i dunno.. i'm just throwing that idea out there0 -
Can I add "Searching all over the office building for the IT guy or one of my bosses because they are never ever in their office when they get a phone call and they don't respond to pages"?0
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Your daily activities are built in. You should not count this.
^^^ This
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My TDEE is 2250 calories. This works out to 93.75 calories an hour while I'm sitting at work. I have a feeling that's what they're talking about. To add those calories ON TOP of your regular calories would be double-dipping.0
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haha no, would be nice though. your body is always burning calories regardless of whether or not you're exercising. Plus, this is normal routine for you at sedentary lifestyle...so you shouldn't log it anyway.0
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Can I add "Searching all over the office building for the IT guy or one of my bosses because they are never ever in their office when they get a phone call and they don't respond to pages"?
if you add it, i'll log it! haha0 -
Can I add "Searching all over the office building for the IT guy or one of my bosses because they are never ever in their office when they get a phone call and they don't respond to pages"?
Funniest thing I've read today!0 -
Sometimes I staple things. Should I add that to the database under resistance exercises? Its a crap stapler.0
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Sometimes I staple things. Should I add that to the database under resistance exercises? Its a crap stapler.
I actually laughed at this. Very nice. : )0 -
I'm gonna count how many times I stand up and sit down from my desk today, and when I get home, I'm gonna log that many squats!
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actually I think logging 'sitting at work' a good idea - if only because it would prompt me to do less of it!!! Knowing that I spent 8 hours or so just sitting and not moving (by moving I mean even just walking around the office) would be a good motivation to do more activity.0
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According to this chart: http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwork.htm
sitting at work actually burns 89 to 140 Calories per hour (depending on personal weight)
If I sit at work for 6-8 Hours everyday, I'd be burning 756-984 calories.
Should I do this? It just feels like an excuse to add more calories to use to eat hah!
No.0 -
those calories have already been counted for you by MFP so if you add them again, you would be counting them twice.
if you are not eating back your exercise calories, it will not matter.0 -
Aw Shucks hahahaha thought I'd run it by y'all before I gave it a shot, THANKS!0
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Your daily activities are built in. You should not count this.
^This. Esp. if it is part of your typical day.
If you eat those calories back, you'll be defeating your efforts.0 -
Same question, different situation.
As I'm a student, my job is part-time and not every day. Also, my job is somewhat physically taxing. I work reshelving books in a library. So I spend 2-4 hours on a day that I work doing the following:
-pushing a 50-300lb wheeled cart (depending how many books are on it)
-walking briskly (3mph maybe?) carrying ~5lbs of books
-stretching/squatting, lifting/pushing large stacks of books
Should I be logging THIS? I've started logging it, but it seems to burn more than I'd expect . . .
I'm not counting my really basic activities through the day, like walking around campus or whatever.0 -
Same question, different situation.
As I'm a student, my job is part-time and not every day. Also, my job is somewhat physically taxing. I work reshelving books in a library. So I spend 2-4 hours on a day that I work doing the following:
-pushing a 50-300lb wheeled cart (depending how many books are on it)
-walking briskly (3mph maybe?) carrying ~5lbs of books
-stretching/squatting, lifting/pushing large stacks of books
Should I be logging THIS? I've started logging it, but it seems to burn more than I'd expect . . .
I'm not counting my really basic activities through the day, like walking around campus or whatever.
if you do this every day (or 5 times per week) just change your activity level from sedentary to light active. it will give you about 200 kcal extra / day.0 -
Same question, different situation.
As I'm a student, my job is part-time and not every day. Also, my job is somewhat physically taxing. I work reshelving books in a library. So I spend 2-4 hours on a day that I work doing the following:
-pushing a 50-300lb wheeled cart (depending how many books are on it)
-walking briskly (3mph maybe?) carrying ~5lbs of books
-stretching/squatting, lifting/pushing large stacks of books
Should I be logging THIS? I've started logging it, but it seems to burn more than I'd expect . . .
I'm not counting my really basic activities through the day, like walking around campus or whatever.
if you do this every day (or 5 times per week) just change your activity level from sedentary to light active. it will give you about 200 kcal extra / day.
It is 3 (sometimes 4, but not often) days per week.0 -
According to this chart: http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwork.htm
sitting at work actually burns 89 to 140 Calories per hour (depending on personal weight)
If I sit at work for 6-8 Hours everyday, I'd be burning 756-984 calories.
Should I do this? It just feels like an excuse to add more calories to use to eat hah!
I feel hard done by now lol! I'm a secondary school languages teacher and I'm on my feet all day at work, 'entertaining' teenagers as I teach them French! I don't sit down! Plus I teach in loads of different rooms as I work part time so I'm always walking round the building carrying a laptop, bag, resources etc. The site I looked on claimed 'standing teaching' burns 88 calories an hour. How can it burn the same amount as sitting on your backside?!
I do sometimes log it, but not always.0 -
According to this chart: http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwork.htm
sitting at work actually burns 89 to 140 Calories per hour (depending on personal weight)
If I sit at work for 6-8 Hours everyday, I'd be burning 756-984 calories.
Should I do this? It just feels like an excuse to add more calories to use to eat hah!
congratulations on half arsing it and calling what you already have to do everyday "exercise"
cause obviously going to work every day is enough to get you to your fitness goals.0 -
reshelving books is a physically taxing job? :huh:0
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That's right up there with the calories burned to re-warm ice cold water...no, do not log sitting, or showering, or washing dishes...these are everyday things.
If you do log them, I expect we'll see a thread called "I burn 800-1000 calories a day but I STILL gain weight!"
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