Overestimating Exercise Calories

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  • Givemewings
    Givemewings Posts: 864 Member
    I have a Heart rate monitor and will sometimes wear it when doing housework to see how many calories I burn. 400 calories is quite possible.
  • misspastry
    misspastry Posts: 109 Member
    The heavier you are, the more calories you burn. Perhaps the person who puts down the hour of vigorous house cleaning is extremely overweight or obese and really does burn that much. I went to the exercise database and put in 60 minutes of vigorous house cleaning to see how much I'd burn, and it says I'd burn 322 calories because I weigh 236.4 at the moment. I normally don't include house cleaning any more though because I count that as my daily routine.

    So before you start knocking anybody for the amount of calories they burn, think about what they probably weigh and let them do their diaries the way they want to. If it's one of your "friends", you can always remove them so you don't have to see.

    You tell her girl!!
  • iysys
    iysys Posts: 524
    i think it depends on situation. i wouldn't enter regular house cleaning but weekend before last my husband and i spent 8 solid hours scrubbing our condo from top to bottom. i spent 45 minutes on my knees with a scrub brush cleaning grout. during several portions of the day my heart rate was up and i was sweating. does that twice a year process not count as exercise because i do a calm version of it regularly? i run for the bus and walk 30 minutes twice a day as part of my daily commute. does that make an hour on the treadmill not exercise because i walk in general?

    eta - also, ragging on other people doesn't make you skinnier or healthier. let people make their own journey and interject if they ask for it. don't judge people in their process no good can come from that.
  • aprils151
    aprils151 Posts: 3 Member
    Your so right people are so lazy they consider general daily activity exercise now.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Sorry to sound silly but does that mean if I burn 600 calories exercising that I can eat an extra 600 calories and still lose weight?


    "Yes" ...... IF you are using MFP (as designed) and exercise is not already accounted for in your set up (activity level)

    "Yes" ...... IF your calorie burn is not exaggerated (many machines & MFP use estimates)

    So ...... a lot of people eat back a % only.

    The reason you eat them back (at least some anyway) .... if you eat 1200 only & exercise for 600 ... this is like eating 600 calories .... way too low .... leads to muscle loss (not just fat loss).
  • dawnyp72x
    dawnyp72x Posts: 10
    Sorry to the op for butting in with my swimming/calorie burning question & thank you for all the replies x

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