Calories for cleaning?

I don't count calories for cooking, shopping, or cleaning.

If I was doing those activities "before" and gaining weight, what makes me think doing them now is somehow helping me lose weight?

I think if you do more then your usual then I count it. LIke when I do laundry I'm up and down the stairs several times along with bending all that. I usually do my heavy cleaning one day a week so the vacuming,mopping,laundry so thats when i count it. Especially when you said you were out of breath I would count maybe just half the time. Like when I clean it takes me about 2 hrs. I would only count 1hr. If you decide to count it go caloriesperhour.com and you will find the info you need.


-Adrienne

Does that mean that the 4 hours I spent today manually tearing up a humongous trash bag full of paper into itty bitty pieces because the motor on the shredder burned out count? Being the old-left-over-tree-hugging-save-the-earth-hippie types we are, we save up all the junk mail we get and when we get a big bunch, shred it, mix it with water, lint from the dryer, candle wax and baking soda, press it into molds and when it's dry, use it in the fireplace. It not only actually works pretty well but helps our supply of wood to stretch a lot further and goes a long way in practical recycling. 4 hours of manual tearing and snipping ought to count for SOMETHING other than a stiff neck and sore hands

For me this has evolved....when I started here I counted more of my 'everyday' calories. I think that just using this site I have become more active and have started to count fewer of the laundry/vacuum/cooking calories. Don't misunderstand...I LOVED counting those...and still enjoy using them if I do something out of the ordinary, huge batch of laundry, washing windows etc.

But now that I feel better, walking up the stairs IS easier, I don't tend to count them as much because they either aren't as difficult or feel less like "work". So, IMHO, log what works for you....if you're just starting your journey and 15 minutes of running the vac leaves you hot, sweaty and needing a rest then LOG IT!!!! All to soon you'll find you did the whole house and are singing along with the radio...and then you can decide you'd rather log the walk you took with the dog, up the big hill and across the field!!! ( OR, the kick boxing class which would have KILLED you two months ago!!)

I don't count cooking. I count cleaning if it's more than my normal cleaning routine. I also count grocery shopping calories because I shop once every two weeks and it becomes quite a workout.

I don't count cooking but do count cleaning when I do a deep house clean ie: bath tub scrubbing, vacuuming stairs etc