Exercise you dont "count"

I only count strength training and running on treadmill, tabata and agree with the above poster...everything else is life.

Edit: Sorry, I do not count my workout calories either. Someone below reminded me. I use the TDEE method and subtract 15-20 percent, but basically set my daily calories at 1800. I do not know how many calories I burn on the days I do exercise. I guess if I was adding exercise calories the above physical activity is what I would count. lol

I only count stuff I am doing that I wasn't doing while I was getting fat...

I gardened, I walked stairs at work, I did housework etc. while I was getting fat...

So I count my weight lifting and HIIT...

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

I tend not to count anything that I would consider routine chores. Unless, it is a pretty intensive one like hauling 1000 pounds in bags of compost, manure, garden soil from my driveway to the garden, tilling and raking it in for a couple of hours and feeling exhausted at the end of the day. Or a big snow shovel session.

Stairs, walking to lunch, walking while shopping, house cleaning, etc...does not get counted.

I suppose it depends on how one has their profile programmed in the settings. I keep mine on Sedentary and plug in my workouts...

Sedentary: Spend most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job)

Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher, salesman)

Active: Spend a good part of the day doing some physical activity (e.g. waitress, mailman)

Very Active: Spend most of the day doing heavy physical activity (e.g. bike messenger, carpenter)

Sex :blushing:

I do plenty of activity that I don't count, but I see others doing so.
Mine include . . .
Housework
Parking far away from destinations
Climbing stairs at work
All the walking I do at work
Yardwork

What are yours?

I wouldn't consider any of this "exercise". Exercise is when you purposefully work out to improve your cardiovascular fitness or your strength and you work up a sweat (so I count my runs, fitness classes, dvd's, bike rides, etc). I never count things like when we got to the zoo and walk all day, even though I don't "normally" do that, it's only a few hundred calories at best, it likely barely covers any miscalculations in what I ate for the day/week when I had to estimate. When I see these things listed as "exercise", it makes me sad. Those things are life.

i count excercise ( swimming, cycling, hiking, walking to the pool, pilates,...)

I don't count walking round the office, climbing staris, fetching and carrying at home, gardening

i set my activity level as sedentary

I usually don't count my workout calories at all. I go to the gym 5-6 days per week and spend at least an hour working out. Sometimes cardio, mostly weight training. I used iifym calculator to figure out my TDEE and subtracted 15% for weight loss. If I find I've gotten a little out of hand with my calories for the day I'll do a little something after work like bike ridding or jogging and I'll count those calories (using a HRM) so I can eat a nice dinner.

My level is set at sedentary. Once or twice a week I do BIG cleaning jobs, like deep cleaning. I'm going up and down the stairs over and over, I'm on my hands and knees, I'm doing things I don't usually do every day. So I strap on the HRM and count that as exercise. Yeah, it takes a lot longer to burn an acceptable amount of calories, but whatever.

From what I can see, those things would be part of the Activity Level that you set in MFP.
I personally have my activity level set to Sedentay and use a FitBit to capture anything above and beyond that level.

Things like my cycle commute to and from work gets recorded as Exercise outside my set Activity Level.
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Anything I do in the normal course of my day/week, I don't count.

Cleaning
Gardening
Laundry
Sex
Etc...

Sex :blushing:

Me either! Hubby won't let me wear my HRM to figure it out!

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

Walking unless it's something out of the ordinary. I mean, I'm sure I walk over a mile through aisles doing the shopping at the local supermarket.

Gardening... well, I hate it so log it as 50 billion calories.

I only count things that aren't part of my ordinary routine.
I only eat back about 1/2 the calories that MFP calculates for me most days unless I still feel hungry. I'm trying to look more at balanced diet rather than strictly going by calories.

I don't count walking around at work, futzing about the house cooking and doing light cleaning (if I vaccuum and mop and spend 3 hours rushing around up and down stairs tidying up, I do count that since I do it at high intensity and get sweaty & tired). I often don't count all of the hours I spend gardening since I think the calorie burn number on here for that is high. . . I only count the full amount if I've been digging or hauling very heavy things for an extended period. And, sex! No way is that appearing on my exercise log! Yeek!

Like others have said, I include my walking about at work, cooking, and some outdoor activity in my activity setting on here, which is set to lightly active. It perhaps should be moderately active, as I've consistently lost weight faster than MFP tells me I should be, even logging activities like my deep cleaning, short (but intentional) walks, etc.

I have my activity level set at sedentary, so my FitBit activity is counted. I don't add in extra calorie burn from strength training or anything like that, because I don't eat back every single one of my exercise calories anyway.

I use a fitbit too, but I do log strength training. Basically, I only log things where my feet aren't moving that the fitbit won't capture. The only exception is snow shoveling, which it didn't seem to capture - I guess because you take small single steps at a time.