How many 'exercise' calories a day do you NOT log?

Don't log any of the following:

* My weight sessions (3 times a week)
* Walks if they are under 2 miles
* Ab workouts

If you set your activity level right, you shouldn't have to log the small things I don't log weights as there's no really consistent way to tell how much I'm burning.

I don't log any of it/eat any back. I eat 1700 calories a day, give or take, and let the rest fall where it may.

I've allowed for exercise in my daily allowance, so I don't really log extra cardio.

I amend calories downwards so 100 cals=1. I assess net calories and time spent on cardio per week.

I only log my workouts, long walks, treadmill, biking etc. Do not log everyday activities.

I only log my intentional exercise, just the gym or maybe going for a walk. I could log my job at last check 4kilo's ago which burns somewhere in the vacinity of 4500 calories on an average 9 hour nonstop day as a Storeman/Forklift Driver according to my Heart Rate Monitor i wore a few times, but i don't and it doesn't seem to make any difference anyway or if it does it's miniscule.

I only log my actual workouts and i don't eat back exercise calories

I only log conscious efforts to exercise. Things like walking the 3 km round trip to pick up schoolies when possible, c25k, treadmill, and circuit training. All the other stuff I would assume is part of my "lightly active" activity profile.

I have mine set to 'sedentary' because I eat calories back.

Me too!
I keep mine set for "Sedentary" as well, because I don't have consistency in my regular (non-intentional exercise) activities. I then log extra strenuous efforts, such as big job cleaning tasks or gardening/yard work tasks. I don't add normal, everyday cleaning and chores, like washing dishes, making my bed, etc...

This has been really working for me since the start, since I'm losing about a pound every 5 days or so. If your activity setting is "Sedentary", that setting assumes sitting much of the day. If my job requirement, on any given day, is that I must drive a long distance, or that I must do a load of computer work, I may indeed be sitting most of a day.
However, if I am unloading/loading boxes, assembling tech products or furniture, etc...I am burning a lot of extra calories. I sure in the heck am going to log those and eat many of them back.

I think it is funny that so many people, in this community, seem bothered by folks adding their work tasks, "not specifically exercise" efforts to their exercise diary. I am unconcerned about how my fellow MFP members work toward their goals, as long as their method is working for them...more power to them! If they are active and burning calories, why should those not be documented and accounted for in their diaries? If they consistently lose weight using this method, what's it to anybody else?

I don't log exercise calories. The methods used by any and all of the gadgets are simply too way off to bother.
It also takes extra time to do and expense for said gadgets.

for me, not worth it. I'm very active so account for that in an average way to work out my TDEE, which ends up amounting to about the same thing but with less effort.

I can then test that TDEE over a few weeks and can use that as a base from then on.
Done once and just log macros from then on.

I only log my workouts and activity, not part of my daily routine. I don't log my walking that is my commute or all the stairs I walk up!

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Does it really matter what people log? As long as they are happy with what they are logging and it's working for them who really cares.

I didn't start this topic to criticise other peoples' methods, purely to observe how different people work. It's you that's assumed an issue with it.

Considering the second sentence in your OP:

Some people really will log anything to make themselves feel better.

That reads as pretty critical to me.

Since you don't care so much, I don't log any exercise.

I walk to work and back, a round trip of just over an hour so I log that because hey, it's an hour of extra work you're doing in a day so it seems worthwhile.

I do feel the calorie burns are little generous on MFP so I do not log flights of stairs... I live in a 4th floor walk up and work on the 5th floor. I don't log my lunchtime walks or where I take a longer route home to buy groceries on the way. I don't log the walking about I do during the day...c alories burned setting 50 tables for a conference or reorganizing office furniture for half a day... nope I don't log those. Honestly, who has the time?

I figure it balances itself out.

I don't log walking the dogs, doing light housework, or pretty much anything except my actual runs, yoga classes, and heavy housework--cleaning carpets, scrubbing floors, etc. I don't log strength training, although I do note it in the exercise notes just to have a record of what I did on which days.

I log everything as it keeps me active. It helps me taking stairs then escalators. I feel i have become more active and my energy level has increased as i make choices better.