What should or shouldn't you record as daily exercise?

ElizabethSami
ElizabethSami Posts: 67
in Health and Weight Loss
So i took my kids to an amusement park yesterday......Started walking and going on rides from 11am and got back in our car at 6pm.....we might of taken just an hour break to eat and energize. I tried to log this on here for walking at 2.0 for 300 minutes and gave me over a thousand calories burned(wft no way) so my question is should i log this or should i just leave it alone since it was just a one time thing?

TIA

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    I'd leave it alone because you weren't walking the whole time and unless you were significantly raising your heart rate during that walking time it wouldn't burn that much. Definitely not something you need to worry about eating back.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    Legitimate exercise is exercise (my opinion) and only that should be logged.
  • vermillionlove
    vermillionlove Posts: 37 Member
    I wonder the same thing too. When i spend all day at an amusement park, I just log it as 120 minutes of walking or something like that. I feel like it should be logged, because i'm coming home exhausted.
  • itsscottwilder
    itsscottwilder Posts: 317
    A pedometer (like the fitbit) is a great way of of converting lots of walking into calories. It's not the amount of time you walk. It's the number of steps within that amount of time.

    But I think the estimate of 100 calories burned for every mile walked is a good estimate.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    Working up a sweat does not mean you worked out, I sweat in my sleep.

    Getting a heart rate up does not mean a workout cause I can do that after having a coffee.

    Walking is exercise, any walking is exercise.

    My Fitbit counts all 40,000+ steps I do a day, including the 10,000+ to the supermarket & back while walking. It's a daily thing & exercise..... and guess what.... it keeps weight down. I walk 40km a day.


    Why is it people feel the need to NOT class walking (any walking) as genuine exercise unless your heart rate is up or you work a sweat? Even if you walk it daily...you are still exercising..... you are not sitting down are you? Asleep?


    BTW should tell you I earn close to 2000 calories extra a day by walking.
  • XTSH
    XTSH Posts: 129 Member
    I have wore HRM and walked for an hour non stop and it shows around 180-220 Kcal burnt. I think the calories burned by OP looks accurate. It should be login but maybe 80% of what MFP showed.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    I walk a lot. I like walking. For me though, my 'planned' exercise walks are very very different than say a quick 20 minute casual stroll through Wal-Mart for groceries. I have to grocery shop regardless. I don't have to walk all those extra planned for miles and miles and miles and some more miles each week ... but I do. That is what I count.

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