Ridiculous logging

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.

Depending on your level of fitness, if its strenuous i would say log it, for me mowing the yard isnt that easy so i will log that, doing house chores i will not log that, only something that takes a lot of energy away i will log.

I'm a CNA and I log my work activity if only I'm busting my butt that day and actually sweat and I only log about 2 hours of it. When I first started mfp I did log the whole 7.5 hours at work, but I thought that was a little much. Mostly I just log my extra exercises and I do log cleaning if its over an hour. I think it just depends on the person and how much they do in a day.

I think people can just log whatever s working for them. I hate when people say "but cleaning is something you do daily so why log it" yet people exercise daily & log it. If it's still part of your daily routine it's still part of your day. Regardless if you do it every day or not. If it works for you then go for it. People have no right to tell someone what not to log.

I only log housework if it's something like rearranging all of the furniture, full floor-to-ceiling scrubdown, etc - for example, back in March I spent 19 hours painting, rearranging, sweeping, mopping, rearranging again, etc.. I don't log my weekly touchups - an hour with the windex and the vacuum just really doesn't cut it!

I live in an apartment. now, but when I was growing up there was a huge difference between watering the plants and doing yardwork - one was 15 minutes of lugging a watering can around the yard, the other was pulling weeds, pruning shrubs, vigorous raking, carting things out to the woods, etc.

I think it really goes on a case-by-case basis.