How much of your exercise activity do you put in?

Anything that I'm actually doing to exercise! Not cooking or knitting or anything like that ...

I only counted planned exercise as exercise, with some exceptions made for very strenuous activities that I don't often do, like shoveling sidewalks, top-to-bottom cleaning before the in-laws visit, rearranging furniture and painting a room.

Otherwise, I'm of the opinion that everyone would be better off switching from sedentary to lightly active and getting about 130 extra calories, and ignoring everything that isn't exercise.

If I counted all the little things, like walking the dog, scooping the catbox, doing dishes, laundry, vacuuming, etc... it would probably add up to more than 130 calories, but I doubt it would be accurate.

I have fitbit, so it adusts for any normal activity and cardio. The only thing I make sure I log is any hard core exercise. And I really have to go ALL OUT for me to count that.

I only record anything over and above my daily routine. Like chopping and stacking wood, walking the dog, my workouts,etc. I don;t consider things like mowing the grass, cooking and cleaning etc.

I don't count the everyday things I do like walking around my college campus, or going up and down stairs. I only add stuff that my body's not used to, or that is specifically exercise. I log the walking I do when I work because I only work one or two days a week and so my body doesn't get used to it. I'll log if I go to the gym, too, because that's extra. But I try not to log every move I make, because then I'm giving myself more calories than I need- the calories we're alloted each day take our everyday movements into account. MFP expects us to walk around, or cook, or do some light cleaning, or whatever we do to reach our BMR. If we add that our daily lives in as exercise calories, then we're doubling the amount of calories we should be eating.

Other than actual exercise, I will add things like yard work; mowing the grass, raking leaves, but cooking or even house cleaning, I do not add.

Unless I'm cooking for more then an hour I don't log in food preparation. I do however log cleaning and laundry because I usually do it on my rest day. If I go on walks with my mother in law, yes I will track that as well. Anything that I'm doing that is increasing my heart rate I will log.

@katevarner--all of MFPs activity settings are assuming you'll log exercise..even very active. It's just used when your daily life is VERY ACTIVE ...like a carpenter or something.

Like most here, I only log something done intentionally to exercise like running, cycling, kickboxing, strength training, long hikes, etc. But for me to count hiking, it has to be sustained hiking or walking. I don't count the type of walking you do when shopping, running errands, etc. I also don't count walking the dog because she's old and very slow so it's not much different than standing in place, LOL. And I don't count cycling if I'm just hopping on my bike for a quick trip to the store, like 5 minutes away. Just more sustained rides.

I think about the only time I made an exception to this was when I helped a friend move and lugged boxes for about 4 hours from her house to the moving van. But I think I only figured it at 60 or 90 minutes because I knew that during that 4 hours there was some standing around and waiting for a box to be ready to carry, or waiting for the guy packing the truck to figure out where the box fit best, etc. Even when I spent a week cooking for my daughter's wedding reception, I didn't count it. I guess I could have but it didn't feel like exercising to me in the same way carting all those heavy boxes did.

With my activity level set at sedentary, I log the obvious gym exercise and I log walking around for more than a couple minutes. It takes me 30 mins round trip at a brisk walk to get to one of my classes 5x a week, why on earth wouldn't I count it?