what activities are included in "sedentary" setting?

I am a stay-at-home mom so cleaning, food prep, things like that are in my daily activity, but if I clean anything extra than what is normal or make a bigger meal than I usualy do, I will add the calories. Say I clean my floor boards or wash my windows or something, I will add that. And sometimes I will clean my moms for extra $$ and I will add those calories too.

I don't log ANYTHING except for actual exercise. Unless it get's my heart rate up like working out does, it doesn't count. That's just my opinion though.

I never add anything like cleaning, even floor washing, there are reasons they don't have housework classes at the gym. It seems to me that if you are going to be logging food preperation and things like that then those people must be so desperate for extra calories that maybe they might want to reasses how serious they are about this journey. If we start to see people chopping carrots and peeling potatoes as a work out on Biggest Loser then I might start thinking again. :happy:

I would say that is you spend a day digging your garden or cutting down trees and you usually soend it pushing a vacuum round and a duster, with a bit of washing up and a spot of ironong, then that will burn ore calories than you would normally burn, so might be worth logging, although I personally don't count things like that. :flowerforyou:

Work twice a week in the kitchen of a restaurant, other wise my work is sedentary in an office, thus I have entered a sedentary lifestyle, but when on my feet I'm recording it as light cleaning or food prep depending on what the restaurant shift throws at me.

i don't log daily activities like that either, but for those who are curious about calories burned, they would subtract from their HRM number the number of calories they would have burned at rest (divide daily maintenance calories by 1440 to get calories burned per minute, then multiply by number of minutes of daily activity). i calculated that i burn 70 calories/hr at rest, and i can't imagine my daily activities burning considerably much more than that.

on a related note, i guess to be really accurate with number of calories burned during purposeful workouts, we should also subtract from that the number of calories we would have burned at rest? or easier that that, maybe we shouldn't eat back all our exercise calories, just half or something. thoughts?

I notice a small number of people logging non-exercise activities... and I don't mean digging in the garden or such like, I mean stuff like "food preparation".

Surely if you give yourself extra calories for a bit of vegetable chopping would that not lead to double accounting, assuming that preparing meals would be part of normal life activities??

I agree with you. Any calories burned by such activities are included in normal daily activity and those people who log them as exercise are just messing up their true calorie deficit.

Then again, I won't even log the wii fit calories because I think they are so small. LOL I am a mess.

I have lost 28 pounds only doing wii fit!! You should count them!!

I have my calories set as sedentary however I happen to do janitorial work four to five days a week.
Since I have done my job for over 16 years it is not much of a challenge so all I usually do is mark down maybe 30 minutes of sweeping when I really do two hours of it. Or 20 min burnishing/ mopping ect. when I did ten times the amount.

The only time I mark down all the work I did as exercise is when I have did a strip and wax job and spent hours and hours of sweating and hefting.

I seldom eat any of the calories I gain from exercise and most of the time don't even make it to my calorie goal. Not sure on the validity of eating all of ones calories when I am allowed over 1900 a day. Not like I can starve on that and I think that the calorie count is messed up for people who are obese since the calorie calculation is made for mostly those that are into sports. It makes sense that a person who is 300l bs of muscle needs the calories but a person who is 300 lbs of mostly fat I don't thinks needs the same requirements.