How to count excercise when cooking Thanksgiving Day

cooking isn't exercise...

I'll count the "after I stuff my face" walk I hope to take, unless I pass out.. which is high probability.. and if i get my butt to the gym in the morning i'll count that..

I'm just going to cook....cooking, cleaning, etc are all included in my activity level. Yeah...I might doing a bit more than normal preparing this feast...but I'll also be eating said feast...not going to worry about tracking either exercise or calories...and certainly not cooking "exercise"

How are you going to count all the cooking you will be doing on Thanksgiving? Are you going to count actual time or time for the whole day as you will be busy the whole day or at least most of it? Let me know how you plan to count this day. Thanks

I'll be using my fitbit to account for my activity.

Since I don't count calories or attempt to stay within a caloric goal, I pretty much use my fitbit to keep a running tab on my activity level. I do best somewhere around 15k steps or more per day, so that's the goal I'm trying to reach and surpass every day :drinker:

I will probably just let my fitbit track my activity and if it earns me more calories eat them. Or just not worry about it. Or actually excercise before the cooking starts and take a nice walk after.

This!^

I'll get my exercise in early. Cooking won't burn much at all anyway.

ILL BE WEARING MY PEDIOMETER, SO WHAT IT SAYS!!!!

cooking isn't exercise...

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and i've cooked plenty of thanksgiving dinners.

cook dinner, eat all the food, call it even.

cooking isn't exercise...

I'll count the "after I stuff my face" walk I hope to take, unless I pass out.. which is high probability.. and if i get my butt to the gym in the morning i'll count that..

That is actually not true. It can be. I volunteer in a soup kitchen on Sundays. I am there for about 12 hours and together with three other people we prepare the food for about 450 meals. We carry soup pots that weigh about 75 pounds, make huge and heavy pots of rice and other foods, carry trays, carry sacks of potatoes and vegetables and most of all walk and are on our feet all day. I have gotten in as much as 18 000 steps. I usually log about two thirds of the time I do this. At about 171 calories an hour it's not all that much, but adds up if I log eight hours.
I would never log cooking at home, even holiday cooking. I count that under my new " lifestyle ", where I am more active, but don't log those activities unless it is intentional exercise.

No way would I ever count cooking as exercise.

And I have done an entire Thanksgiving meal for a house full of people and it involved a great deal of sitting around waiting for things to cook.

I guess those people who have never prepared a Thanksgiving dinner have a right to complain about the "lack" of exercise used in cleaning, preparing, lifting, mixing, etc. that is involved in cooking. While I will let my fitbit track it for me, I do not plan on using cooking as my exercise. I plan on running before the dinner and maybe walking after I indulge. Enjoy your day and try not to sweat the cooking issue too much!

Get real! I cook more than a thanksgiving dinner every work day. You couldn't even fit some of the pots we use in a commercial kitchen on your home stove. Is it activity? Yes. Is it exercise to track? Heck no!

How are you going to count all the cooking you will be doing on Thanksgiving? Are you going to count actual time or time for the whole day as you will be busy the whole day or at least most of it? Let me know how you plan to count this day. Thanks

I'm not. Cooking isn't exercise. :ohwell: I will, however, count the 10K that I will be running that morning while the turkey is in the oven.

I guess those people who have never prepared a Thanksgiving dinner have a right to complain about the "lack" of exercise used in cleaning, preparing, lifting, mixing, etc. that is involved in cooking. While I will let my fitbit track it for me, I do not plan on using cooking as my exercise. I plan on running before the dinner and maybe walking after I indulge. Enjoy your day and try not to sweat the cooking issue too much!

LOL
I used to cook two or three every year..

1 for family (anywhere from 8 to 35 people)
1 for friends (usually around 10ish people)
and 1 for fun (boyscouts or another organization or just to eat it again)

Cause seriously.. it's thanksgiving dinner.. it deserves a few repeats.. mmmmm and sometimes I want ham and they want turkey.. solution?? two dinners! whoot whoot! :~)

OH a soup kitchen is entirely different the cooking at home for exercise.. I might lift a huge bag of potatoes once or twice or a full pot once or twice at home.. that's not exercise that's normal life.

I'm pretty sure the amount of "tastes" negates any calories burned anyway. lol Plus.. wine and cider...cooking always gets more interesting as the day goes on.. heh..

I guess those people who have never prepared a Thanksgiving dinner have a right to complain about the "lack" of exercise used in cleaning, preparing, lifting, mixing, etc. that is involved in cooking. While I will let my fitbit track it for me, I do not plan on using cooking as my exercise. I plan on running before the dinner and maybe walking after I indulge. Enjoy your day and try not to sweat the cooking issue too much!

Get real! I cook more than a thanksgiving dinner every work day. You couldn't even fit some of the pots we use in a commercial kitchen on your home stove. Is it activity? Yes. Is it exercise to track? Heck no!

c'mon though! taking a turkey out of the oven is like 1 bent-over row or a deadlift! :laugh:

hilarious thread is hilarious.

You can count it as "cleaning," just make sure you also input anything you taste while you're cooking. hope that helps!

I am only responding with the hopes of goods gifs at some point......

It's too early to talk about Thanksgiving, Halloween hasn't even passed!

I don't do the cooking so I'm not concerned about it.
One day I will take over the cooking from my aunt and I'm looking forward to no more dry turkeys...
And things that are warm....