Curious - what do you count as exercise?

I count all my fast walking and I also count my gym time. That's all.

As long as you keep moving it's all good!

"Exercise
Exercise is a form of physical activity that is planned, structured and done to improve at least one aspect of physical fitness that is, strength, flexibility or aerobic endurance.

Examples of common exercise directions include the following:

Do whole body resistance training three days per week (two sets of eight to 12 repetitions).
Do whole body stretching exercises daily.
Do 30 minutes on a treadmill at 65 per cent of your maximum heart rate.

Exercise is effective in improving people’s health, well-being and overall quality of life.

Physical Activity

Physical activity includes activity that is part of your daily life. Household, workplace and lifestyle physical activity are three of the most common types of physical activity:

Household physical activity, such as sweeping and cleaning.
Workplace physical activity, including lifting boxes or walking for longer than 10 minutes.
Lifestyle physical activity, such as carrying a basket at the grocery store rather than wheeling a cart."

http://www.healthyalberta.com/609.htm

i have always had my settings as sedentary.

The only thing I log is walking...I walk between 3 to 5 miles a day. I add it as 40 minutes medium pace walking a dog.

If you want to go down the whole route of adding everything you do to move then use a TDEE calculator such as the scooby website.

What works for one doesn`t necessarily work for another.

My TDEE level is set to sedentary. I count cleaning as exercise if I am spending the entire day cleaning the house - windows, floors, walls, bathroom, oven, baseboards, etc. I don't have a HRM so I check my pulse throughout the day and average it, then log only part of the time to be safe. This happens maybe once a month. I sweep the house twice a day because we have three dogs and a cat but that doesn't get logged, and neither do other daily tasks like washing dishes, wiping counters, laundry, etc.

I also log some gardening. Gardening here is not a light task. Most of the yard is wild rose, ivy, virginia creeper and other vines, and crabgrass and pokeweed, so gardening for me is cutting things down with a large knife and trying to dig and rip roots out of the ground. Again, I only log part of the time and try to get an average heart rate. If I am just going out to water my raspberries and do some light weeding around them for about an hour I don't log that.

I also log walking my dog when I do that. It's 3mph for 60 minutes, some flat and some at about a 40-45 degree incline.

To me the problem with not counting them is you aren't going to eat enough calories then. i also don't eat back my calories so that may make a difference