adding exercises

longview
longview Posts: 28 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
today I spent 3 hrs taking walls out of my house,I noticed that exercise database has a listing for "general carpentry" should I use that as exercise, and use those calories burned?? Thanks Guy

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Sounds legit to me. I don't believe in logging cleaning or shopping or everyday stuff - but if you aren't normally tearing down walls logging it and eating back the calories seems good to me. If you're actually a builder for a living and this is your normal activity then you'd want to just up your activity level instead of adding it as exercise.
  • longview
    longview Posts: 28 Member
    I didn't eat back the calories, do you have to?
  • rockmama72
    rockmama72 Posts: 815 Member
    When I spent the afternoon organizing my daughter's room, I counted it as light cleaning. I only counted 2 hours. However, I have my activity level set at sedentary, so I count pretty much all activity and then I eat the extra calories. I like the reward.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    I didn't eat back the calories, do you have to?

    Not necessarily. What is your calorie goal?
  • longview
    longview Posts: 28 Member
    My calorie goal is 2020. I have been coming in under everyday,normally I wouldn't add work as an exercise but I just had neck fusion surgery & have been out of work for 2 months so when I did the work around the house,It was like exercising.

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