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  • adriennepaolini
    adriennepaolini Posts: 28
    Ok sweating is not indicative of burning calories. Unless you sit and sweat or sweat when you breath and so on. House cleaning is usually full body reaching for this bending and picking up that pulling garbage, and so on.
    If you are running the vacuum around for ten minutes since most are self propelled no that is not a work out. But scrubbing the floor, mopping, cleaning walls and so on count. If you feel it is cheating then don't log it.
  • Beastx10
    Beastx10 Posts: 97
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    Oooh the negativity! The "ten" minutes was just a "for-instance" not actual time as I couldn't remember if it was an hour I did or not. But thank you for the response.

    :noway: you are probably one of her friends then

    There was no negativity. It was fact.

    But I clearly don't know what I'm talking about and you obviously didn't actually want any real answers so good luck to you in your weight loss goals.

    Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.

    I've seen her other posts too. She's one of the more helpful, straightforward people on MFP.
    LMAO :noway:
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    Oooh the negativity! The "ten" minutes was just a "for-instance" not actual time as I couldn't remember if it was an hour I did or not. But thank you for the response.

    :noway: you are probably one of her friends then

    There was no negativity. It was fact.

    But I clearly don't know what I'm talking about and you obviously didn't actually want any real answers so good luck to you in your weight loss goals.

    Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.

    better than a barrage of emoticons
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/post/by_user/37037840?page=2
  • WannaBLoser2013
    WannaBLoser2013 Posts: 247
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    It burns calories. You have to log any activity that burns calories as you are counting calories in versus calories out.
  • Beastx10
    Beastx10 Posts: 97
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    Oooh the negativity! The "ten" minutes was just a "for-instance" not actual time as I couldn't remember if it was an hour I did or not. But thank you for the response.
    There was no negativity. It was fact.

    But I clearly don't know what I'm talking about and you obviously didn't actually want any real answers so good luck to you in your weight loss goals.

    Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.

    better than a barrage of emoticons
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/post/by_user/37037840?page=2

    at least it wasn't insulting and that was a friend of mine and an "inside Joke" so what!
  • cubbies77
    cubbies77 Posts: 607 Member
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    It burns calories. You have to log any activity that burns calories as you are counting calories in versus calories out.

    But housework is already included in our "lifestyle" calories. Did you even read the thread?

    I can understand logging ten minutes of moving furniture and running heavy boxes up to the attic, but I saw someone log "folding towels" once and about lost my mind. I've seen "cooking" too. Sitting on the couch folding towels and standing at the stove mixing things is NOT EXERCISE.
  • cubbies77
    cubbies77 Posts: 607 Member
    And anyone who logs stuff like that just to see numbers and feel motivated is doing themselves a disservice. Later that month, when they wonder why they've lost a half-pound in four weeks, it'll be because they logged 400 calories of housework, cooking, and brushing their teeth every single day.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    Oooh the negativity! The "ten" minutes was just a "for-instance" not actual time as I couldn't remember if it was an hour I did or not. But thank you for the response.
    There was no negativity. It was fact.

    But I clearly don't know what I'm talking about and you obviously didn't actually want any real answers so good luck to you in your weight loss goals.

    Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.

    better than a barrage of emoticons
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/post/by_user/37037840?page=2

    at least it wasn't insulting and that was a friend of mine and an "inside Joke" so what!

    This was insulting: Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.
  • Beastx10
    Beastx10 Posts: 97
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.

    Oooh the negativity! The "ten" minutes was just a "for-instance" not actual time as I couldn't remember if it was an hour I did or not. But thank you for the response.
    There was no negativity. It was fact.

    But I clearly don't know what I'm talking about and you obviously didn't actually want any real answers so good luck to you in your weight loss goals.

    Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.

    better than a barrage of emoticons
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/post/by_user/37037840?page=2

    at least it wasn't insulting and that was a friend of mine and an "inside Joke" so what!

    This was insulting: Just looking for reasons to be rude! I've seen this in your other posts.
    Don't try to "act" like you were helping.


    whatever dude, is she your mom or something. Get over it.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    creative use of the "your mom" card. nicely done. :drinker:
  • holly1283
    holly1283 Posts: 741 Member
    Stop logging 10 minutes of housework. That's not exercise.
    Evidently you do housework everyday so that is part of your lifestyle. If not it is calories burned.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    creative use of the "your mom" card. nicely done. :drinker:

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    creative use of the "your mom" card. nicely done. :drinker:

    :laugh:
  • kmk_natasha
    kmk_natasha Posts: 34
    And anyone who logs stuff like that just to see numbers and feel motivated is doing themselves a disservice. Later that month, when they wonder why they've lost a half-pound in four weeks, it'll be because they logged 400 calories of housework, cooking, and brushing their teeth every single day.

    This
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    Am I just seeing things wrong? I'm still working things out on this site.

    It seems to me that, for instance, if I do ten minutes on my elliptical trainer versus ten minutes on housework MFP puts the housework as more calories loss. But I sweat more doing the elliptical. Doesn't seem right to me. I'm confused by it. I mean if that is the case then I'll just do my housework lol.

    OK I'm going to try to explain this on a very very basic level.

    It doesn't matter if you are sedentary and cleaning puts you out of breath.

    Why? Because the ONLY person who should be logging cleaning as exercise is the person who joined MFP and prior to doing so NEVER CLEANED THEIR HOUSE on a regular basis.

    you are supposed to log any exercise you do OVER AND ABOVE what you do on a daily basis. Your purposeful burns. So...

    for example, if you decided to clean your house from top to bottom in a day, and you do that maybe twice a year, then wear your HRM and log it.

    but if you are a generally clean person and clean EVERY DAY, and not once a month, so you don't live in a sty, then it doesn't matter how much you sweat, burn calories, or get out of breath. That is a part of you daily expenditure burn. Your body expects that burn and your body knows it's going to happen.

    that is why you don't log cleaning, and the only reason it's in MFP is for those purposeful log days when you go over and above your daily expenditure.

    This answer is...Perfection. :smile:
  • Beastx10
    Beastx10 Posts: 97
    creative use of the "your mom" card. nicely done. :drinker:

    :laugh:

    thanks all!!! Glad you liked it!!

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