OK... Let's Just Talk About It....

This is funny to me. My boyfriend and I started tracking on here at the same time. We both want to be healthy, loose a little weight, and be fitter. Once you start paying attention to what your body is doing, this seems like a natural question. He bought a heart rate monitor, and the second thing he said to me about it was: "Can I wear it during sex!?"

We are both scientists we wanted to know; how many calories do I burn on top, how many calories do you burn on top, how many calories do we burn standing up in the shower? These seemed like perfectly natural questions to me.

When you've completed your research, will you post the results? I know a lot of people who would be interested. :laugh:

Same goes for house cleaning, if it makes you sweat...It's good and it should count.

That's actually a good rule of thumb, I think. I mean, I clean every day--but I don't scrub the floors (and I do SCRUB the floors, on hands and knees) every day, so when I do, I log it as "cleaning", but even if I think it might be "vigorous", I only log the "light", because it's more about the actual work my body is doing and making sure that I'm using various muscle groups, than it is about eating back calories. I very rarely do that. If my body tells me I'm hungry after a workout, sure I'll eat back *some*, but hardly ever do I actually eat back all of my calories.

I climb stairs multiple times a day, because we're on a second floor apartment. But I don't log "stair-climbing" every time. I include that in my activity level, along with wrestling with children (though it would be hilarious to see that on the database!), carrying a toddler (up and down those same stairs), vacuuming, folding laundry, etc. But even though I don't have sex every day, I don't think I would log it, just because I'm not sure exactly how to calculate the actual effort that I, personally, put into the activity. I'd just consider it a "bonus". In a few ways.

Point being, not everyone logs just so they can eat. For some of us, it's about self-accountability and seeing what your body is actually doing. Making sure that you're doing something every day to make yourself stronger, and to be more active, more fit. It's not necessarily "just" about being able to eat more or "tricking" the system to let yourself gorge. I think for a lot of people, this site is a way to be more self-aware and conscious with what we put into our bodies--and what we exert as well. Sure, taking a quick walk around the block for 10 mins may only "earn" me 60 cals, but that's not important to me. What's important is that I moved and I was active, and did something that was not part of my daily routine.

I used to log it (and it's the reason why I made my exercise notifications private for my friends list :laugh: ) but I wouldn't bother anymore. I can see if it's particularly strenuous, or if it lasts 45+ minutes at a decent->high intensity. But otherwise, nah.

Sex is part of my daily activity level and that's already accounted for in MFP's calculations, ...

Well, go you!

And wow to the people logging 45 minute sessions! <sigh> I remember those days....

[slowly backing out of this thread]

If sex burned enough calories to log, I'd be Kenna Shell.

And how YOU doin? :laugh:

Per Shine Magazine, 230 calories per ten minutes. I looked it up the other day. I thought hey I should be tracking this.
..Why is everyone so sensitive about sex ? People log, shopping, cleaning, etc.... I don't log exercise so I can eat more food. I log exercise to see how many calories I burned to track how many pounds I should lose that week.....

agreed.