Does anyone record shopping as exercise?

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  • ChaseAlder
    ChaseAlder Posts: 804 Member
    No. I don't walk fast enough while shopping to make it a good burn. It's just part of my day.
  • MsMargie1116
    MsMargie1116 Posts: 323 Member
    I used to when I went grocery shopping, I definitely add it... Walking - 2.0 mph, which is actually just a stroll... :smile: to account for the stopping to compare prices, I just take some time off. For example, if I was really out for 90 minutes doing grocery shopping, I'll log for maybe 75 minutes, or 60 minutes, depending on how many times I'd stopped. But like other's have said, do what works for you. If you are one who eats all your exercise calories back and see that you aren't losing like you were before, then, I'd stop... JMHO... GL in your journey!!! :wink:

    I use my FitBit now, and it accounts for ALL activity!!! ;-D
  • babydiego87
    babydiego87 Posts: 905 Member
    if youre going for hours without stopping, and wouldnt normally do this, then yes id log it. why the hell not? walking is exercise IMO, id log it as 'leisurely'
  • babydiego87
    babydiego87 Posts: 905 Member
    I log it as walking. If you went on a 3 hour walk at 2.0mph, would you log it then? Just because you were preoccupying yourself, doesn't meant you didn't burn calories.

    That being said, if you go on a 3 hour walk at 2.0mph every single day.. I'd say you should change your activity levels instead.

    Up to you, OP!
    this.
  • TheDarlingOne
    TheDarlingOne Posts: 255 Member
    basically like most others have posted - it seems like a 50/50 split haha.

    so just personally speaking - every other thursday is my grocery shopping day. this happens at Walmart. I spend HOURS in Walmart. I do not sit down. I do not do exercise on the regular - so because this is on average 4 hours of movement (sure I stop on occasion to check labels, compare #'s, etc) I do account for it. It's more than I did the day before, and it's more movement then I'll do the next day....

    BUT to account for the lag time (price checks, looking up things on phone, phone calls maybe, etc) - I would do generally half of what I was in the store for. So if I'm in there for a solid 4 hours, I'll usually log 2 hours of strolling a slow 2.0 pace.

    Hope the 50/50 replies are helpful :)~
  • carriej82
    carriej82 Posts: 123 Member
    I don't, and don't log anything that's not "exercise". As in, if I'm not going to the gym for it, running, etc.

    So shopping, definitely not.

    this... I only log actual exercise. I figure these things like shopping, cleaning, etc is just a bonus calorie burn.
  • lynn413
    lynn413 Posts: 40
    If its 2 or more hours of shopping I log it as exercise under walking 2 mph.
  • pixtotts
    pixtotts Posts: 552 Member
    I do!
    I created my own in the end used to log it as walking and round down, still use the slowest walking as the measure and often half the time but gave it its own name because walking looks like i did something more important than shopping... I tend to consider something which tires me out, gets up a sweat and makes me not feel up to doing proper exercise as exercise... example - 5 hours of shopping yesterday or an afternoon of chopping logs, makes me go nooo just need a bath and a lie down
    x
  • tequila09
    tequila09 Posts: 764 Member
    No I don't consider it exercise but part of my daily activity
  • tonyoconnor129
    tonyoconnor129 Posts: 46 Member
    When my wife and I go shopping I log it. It is exercise outside of what I normally do.

    I walk my dogs every day, twice a day. I log it because even though it is within the norm for me, it is still exercise.
  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    It's up to you what you log, but here is some real data of my day shopping, and other things I did in a few hours. This will give you an idea, unless you calculated your calories based on never leaving your bed, then shopping is a normal activity I think.

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  • chrisjathompson
    chrisjathompson Posts: 227 Member
    Another note, if you take the same time I took shopping, and compared the calories to sleeping of the same duration... I earned enough calories to eat 8 zesty cheese doritos. Yum, earned those chips. Oops, ate the whole bag. I have to go shop for 36 hours now :D
  • epie2098
    epie2098 Posts: 224 Member
    I only log it if it's a marathon shopping session. Just a trip to the grocery store, no, as that's part of daily life. But a full day of thrifting or mall-ratting, yes, that's a workout! Usually end up starving hungry afterwards, so that's a good sign that it's burning calories imho.
  • space_case
    space_case Posts: 89 Member
    I log it, if you are tracking calories, Would you add hamburgers to your MFP if you eat hamburgers everyday? Your still burning calories. Doesn't matter if it's routine or not.

    It actually does matter though because when you sign up for MFP, you say what your level of activity is in order to get your calorie goal.

    I'm on my feet 8 hours a day because I work retail, but I don't count it as 8 hours of walking every day. It's part of that "lightly active" I claimed I was when I did my profile.
  • Jolene8992
    Jolene8992 Posts: 127 Member
    I wear my fitbit. After I finish grocery shopping I make laps around the perimeter of Wal-Mart with a full cart. I work up a good sweat.But I start getting weird looks about the 4th or 5th time around.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    When my basic calories were set too low, I did count shopping of any kind. When I realised I was losing too fast and upped my calories I only logged the unusual shops,such as around London.
  • Leeann1979
    Leeann1979 Posts: 1,090 Member
    Logging a shopping trip as an exercise really is desperation in all honesty. On average if you sat down all day and did nothing you'd use about 1 cal a minute that equates to about 1400cals a day. People generally live a very sedentary lifestyle as it is so suggesting that a three hour walk is over and above what you'd normally do just seems like an excuse for why you didn't actually do some form of positive exercise.

    Sorry, but I agree with this. The only type of "non-exercise" I log is shovelling. I strap on my HRM and go nuts. It actually feels like a workout and my heart rate gets up. I don't really believe cleaning, gardening, shopping etc are working out. Thats just my opinion though. Like others said, its just a bonus burn.
  • dncyng
    dncyng Posts: 53 Member
    I agree with a lot of the posts on here. If it is not something you do every day or at least every other day, then I would count it. Today I actually counted light housework. I never would have, but today has been a mojor cleaning day with me doing it for over 3 hours straight and then I had to stand for an hour. So I just logged 2 hours of light cleaning cause this is way more than usual. And I still have a couple more hours I need to squeeze in before bed. But again, I would only count it if it is out of your norm.
    I Totally agree with this.
  • Dinerarose
    Dinerarose Posts: 21
    Hi,
    I go grocery shopping once a week, it usually takes me about a hour and a half, sometimes 2 to get finished, I always wear my body media which I always check before I leave for shopping so when I am done shopping I can know the calories burned, between shopping and putting the groceries a way I usually burn at least 300+ calories, so yes I definitely add that as calories burned for exercise, you can add it as walking or create your own name for it under your exercises.
  • pet1127
    pet1127 Posts: 572 Member
    I got fat while shopping house cleaning ..ect... so no I don't log it

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