Do you count housework towards your daily cals.

You could get a hrm and that will tell you how many calories you've burned. With all the mixed opinions here I think that would be your best bet.

No.. nor do I count strolling to the park with my kids, walking around the lake throwing rocks in the water, washing the car, painting my spare bedroom, cooking, doing laundry, dancing at a wedding..... I agree with the previous poster who said that is life, not exercise.

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It also allows for room for error in case something had more calories than actuality, or if the exercise you actually did (running, weights etc) was over exagerrated on MFP.

I personally think it's silly when people add "moderate cleaning" or "prepping food" to their work out. Yea, yuo're moving, but you move from the time you get out of bed, till the time you go back to bed unless you're a vegetable or physically incapable of it.

I usually don't count it but out of curiousity this past Sunday I wore my HRM while I did laundry, folded clothes and ironed, in 2 hours I burned 421 calories!!! I still didn't log it as a workout but I was very pleased to know that I burned that on top of what I burned from Zumba that day!!

Nope, I only count actual workouts. I feel like trying to count things that I would be doing anyway is shooting myself in the foot.

When I first joined MFP I didn't have enough stamina for really large calorie burns and I had my goal set to lose 2lbs a week and I was HUNGRY! So when I discovered that cleaning counted as exercise, you bet I logged it! Since then I have lowered my goal to 1lb. a week and have learned to eat better foods, which enables me to stay withing my calorie goal. So I no longer log housework. It probably depends on how physically out of shape you are, but I did lose weight eating back those housecleaning calories. But to answer your actual question, I do sometimes still log the really deep cleaning, but it's just for fun. I don't eat the calories back anymore.

My BMF counts it, as does everymove.com. Since I already have trouble eating enough calories and having a huge deficit, I have to count it otherwise I'd be in an even bigger hole. I do not log it here but I do count those calories when it comes to eating them back. I do log it on everymove.com to get the points.

if you live in a two story, 4 bed, 2 bath home and you scrub it from top to bottom which means moving all the furniture around, flipping mattresses, getting out the ladder to clean ceiling fans, lights, tops of kitchen cabinets, inside kitchen cabinets (this involves removing every item out of the cabinet to clean entire inside of cabinet), dusting, scrubbing kitchen/bathroom floors, scrubbing showers, washing windows (inside and out), washing baseboards and crown molding, moving kitchen appliances to clean behind plus laundry appliances, sweeping, vacuuming, dusting and finally scrubbing toilets inside and out i don't care who you are but you work up a sweat and you get your heart rate up.

these things are not normal everyday cleaning tasks (okay maybe vacuuming, sweeping, dusting are everyday tasks)

for someone that lives in a small apartment you probably will not work up a good sweat even doing all these things but if you live in a big home you must certainly will sweat. if you are like me and also include the garage when "spring/winter" cleaning so that's sweeping, cleaning windows, doors and ledge, climbing the ladder to retrieve storage bins, sorting storage bins and returning storage bins to shelving.

when i do this - i log it as exercise.

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I do not, that way it gives me some bounce room for errors on logging.

I don't do a lot of cleaning, LOL. But the above response sounds good!