Ridiculous logging

I've lost 35 pounds. Obviously whatever I choose to do is working for me.

The vast majority of people would be cheating themselves if they logged day to day hum drum as exercise. It should be included in you activity level....I mean ****...maybe I should log breathing as exercise since it burns calories...or taking a dump. The exception might be someone who was previously wheel chair bound and now able to get up and move around...but other than that, shopping and **** isn't exercise.

doesnt a sneeze while laying on your back = 1 situp?

Wait, am I doing it wrong?

If i do something particulary exausting I note in the notes section, but i dont log it in calories. mowing the lawn in 90 degree weather is taxing, but I dont want to venture a guess on how much I burned. i would rather be low balling my total calories for the day than be eating way to much.

I don't think anyone's loggings are ridiculous. For instance I have a friend on my FL who logs grocery shopping because for her that entails walking all around with a heavy baby in a baby carrier.

Other folks have their activity set to sedentary and do hard cleaning as part of their job.

Still others put 1 calorie in for super hard workouts because they have already factored a certain number of workouts into their daily cal goal average.

For this reason, I do not criticize anybody's exercise logging. I just know people use this site differently as for their specific needs and goals. I just cheer them on.

^^^^Now there's a person I'd like to know.

I set my activity level to sedentary because I AM sedentary. But that doesn't make me comatose. I still grocery shop. (Rather obviously, or I wouldn't have gained this much weight!) I cleaned the upholstery a couple weeks ago and broke a sweat. I still do laundry. I'm overweight, not smelly! I still mop the floors. At least occasionally. I don't log as exercise anything but actual honest to god exercise. If I were vigorously scrubbing the upholstery every day, I suppose I could up my activity level, but I'm not. I don't think sedentary means you never MOVE.

I only log excercise. I don't even log my dairy dog walking.

Ridiculous probably isn't the nicest way to put it, but for myself, I'm trying to be accountable for my choices, and the results. I wouldn't call someone else's logging ridiculous. I do think some people may be cheating themselves if they call themselves active, because they exercise 3X per week, and then log that exercise separately. It's double dipping. If you're doing it, and losing weight, well whatever you doing must be working, but if the results aren't what you expected, that's one possible reason why.


I gained weight for many reasons. The biggest is probably mindlessly eating. MFP has helped me think about what I'm stuffing in my mouth, because I log EVEYTHING. The good, the bad, the ugly. At the end of the day that little "In 5 weeks you would weigh XXX" reinforces for me exactly what the long term results of my choices will be. I wouldn't call anyone ridiculous, but I don't think you do people any favors if you blow smoke and tell them it's all good.

I'm set at sedentary. I was over 300 lbs when I started and rarely moved off the couch or bed. I have chronic pain and other issues and I used them as an excuse not to do anything. I sat on my *kitten* and played video games, watched tv and ate junk food ALL day. I'm married with teenage kids, so they did all the housework. So yes, I log everything that gets me up off my *kitten* and moving. It's working for me. I've lost 32 lbs in 56 days. So I wouldn't call it ridiculous. remember not everyone is the same. For some of us SOME movement, even if it seems silly to you, is better than where we started.

There's really no ridiculous logging. People may cheat and their results will show, but they may not be. I wouldn't fret yourself over it since even if it bothers you, you can't control it. It really is going to come down to what works for you and balance it with your weight loss. Some people may have to log those things in either for emotional support or because they may not have been doing them regularly before.

My personal situation: bad ankles helped beget weight gain, so anything I'm doing on my ankles, I'm logging, but in the form of pedometer counting with the Runtastic Pedometer app. It does have it's sources of error, but balances out fairly well. This isn't logging the intensity of things I may be doing while on my feet (like lifting, carrying, cleaning, shopping), but it's a good baseline. I did a week of "trial" by clocking the steps I've done in different work departments and days off. I'm adjusting to increase my counts on off days toward the minimum suggestion of 10k steps. I hadn't been eating up to the calories it was allowing me here on MFP with the exercise factored in and as a result after these first 2.5 weeks, I've dropped just under 10 lbs and 2/3rds of it registering as fat. And I'm hungry, a lot, so I am trying to use water and healthy snacks to tie me over between meals to avoid that senseless munching I did in the past. I'll continue to adjust both eating a few more calories so I don't inadvertently put my body into starvation mode by undereating too greatly, yet also make sure I stay active to facilitate the weight loss. Eventually the pedometer may not be used and I'll only log in any form or workouts, but again, it'll happen if my situation changes and that's the best option for me.