Does cooking burn calories? MFP says yes!
_runnerbean_
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One of my MFP friends logged "cooking" as an activity that burned calories. WTF??? I really can't see how preparing a meal could burn that many more calories than sitting still, unless your fridge was upstairs and your cooker was at the end of the garden. Am I missing something here?
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It doesn't count as exercise I hate people who do this and remove them from my friends list all the time!
I've seen people log
-reading
-driving
-studying
-cleaning
-gardening
All this *kitten* isn't exercise, go to the gym ... put in the work!!!!! stop justifying over eating by logging miniscule daily tasks that your body is already accustom to.
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haha I log anything I do in the yard because my body is NOT used to that LOL0
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I can understand gardening and heavy cleaning, if it's prolonged and more than your usual daily activity. Reading and driving!!!! Unless you were previously in a coma I can't see how these would count.0
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I don't log most of those things, except gardening. When I garden it's serious - lots of lifting, shoveling/digging, tilling, walking, squating...etc....i sweat more than when I jog lol0
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charmarbobar wrote: »I don't log most of those things, except gardening. When I garden it's serious - lots of lifting, shoveling/digging, tilling, walking, squating...etc....i sweat more than when I jog lol
for us its raking... OMG the leaves... 1/4 acre of nothing but trees/leaves... . BLECH...
let's not bring up gutter cleaning
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What people don't understand is that "sedentary" is NOT the same as BMR.
BMR is the number of calories you would burn if you were essentially in a coma all day. The "sedentary" setting on MFP already includes a certain number of calories over your BMR. This accounts for a normal activity level of someone who sits around most of the day. This includes walks to and from the bathroom, around the house, light cooking or housework, trips to the corner store, using the computer, watching TV, all the normal stuff that forms a part of an otherwise fairly inactive life.
This stuff is all BUILT IN to your calorie estimate already. Logging it again is double-counting those minimal calories.
Use "sedentary" and then ONLY log workouts that are over and above your normal daily activity. Otherwise, you'll think you need to eat more calories than you actually do, folks!0 -
Not for anything, but I have a fitbit and one of the problems some people have is it logs time driving as steps. we are TOLD to log DRIVING as an exercise so that fitbit will remove the extra steps... so some of the people logging Driving, may be doing it for the same reason... although I don't think there should be calories attached to it...0
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well that went all goofy.... so NM lol0
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It does, but unless you're preparing some kind of holiday feast where you're seriously on your feet for hours on end, that kind of activity should already be rolled up in people's activity level.
Unfortunately, a lot of people just like cheating themselves...and then they wonder why it doesn't work, but they're doing everything "right"0 -
_runnerbean_ wrote: »One of my MFP friends logged "cooking" as an activity that burned calories. WTF??? I really can't see how preparing a meal could burn that many more calories than sitting still, unless your fridge was upstairs and your cooker was at the end of the garden. Am I missing something here?
I logged cooking once when I spent hours on my feet walking back and foward, bending, chopping, climbing a ladder to get things off of shelves, kneading dough, lifting containers of flour, rice, etc. I do have a large kitchen. It wasn't a calorie burn like a workout might be but it was definitely more work than sitting still. I don't usually spend hours cooking like that so I counted the extra activity that day. If I did that amount every day I wouldn't log it.0 -
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I've seen people log
-gardening
All this *kitten* isn't exercise, go to the gym ... put in the work!!!!! stop justifying over eating by logging miniscule daily tasks that your body is already accustom to.
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You must not garden. Gardening is serious work and a great workout for your back, butt, and legs. I burn upwards of 300 calories an hour when I'm out working in the yard (according g to my BodyMedia Fit).
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It should be considered your normal daily activity. Exercise is exercise, but it's amazing what people log for an extra cookie.0
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How much does worrying about what other people log burn? :huh:0
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The only time I logged cooking was at Thanksgiving. I was cooking and prepping for 6 hours and barely sat down the whole time. Other than that, I don't count it. I do log gardening or yard work because that is only a once a week thing and not something I do every day and I usually spend quite a bit of time on it. Unless it's a riding lawnmower. I don't see how that counts but they have that on MFP for calories burned as well.0
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Everything burns calories, even thinking.
I think I better eat back a calorie for that thought.0 -
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Some people log every single movement they make, eat back the calories and then complain they aren't losing weight. You will never convince them that's not the way to do it, so just let it go. Eyes on your own plate as they say.0
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Clearly you don't garden much. I assure you, I'm just as sore from a day in my garden as I am after a good workout.Tedebearduff wrote: »It doesn't count as exercise I hate people who do this and remove them from my friends list all the time!
I've seen people log
-reading
-driving
-studying
-cleaning
-gardening
All this *kitten* isn't exercise, go to the gym ... put in the work!!!!! stop justifying over eating by logging miniscule daily tasks that your body is already accustom to.
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+1 for the people defending gardening.... 4 hours of gardening can really kick your butt, if you're doing it right....0
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MFP lies.0
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The calorie burns and your logs are just an estimate. If you need to invent stuff then its probable that you just end up cheating yourself. Whether you burn calories or not your body knows.0
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One of my friends once posted a calorie burn for "self pleasure"!
But yeah, I hate when people count stupid stuff for calorie burns.-1 -
lol! people are crazy and in denial.-1
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As long as you log it.Liftng4Lis wrote: »
I don't care what people log as exercise. I blindly click the thumbs up and say "Good job!".
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And then they start a new thread titled not losing weight and I don't know why0
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stephanieluvspb wrote: »And then they start a new thread titled not losing weight and I don't know why
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What people don't understand is that "sedentary" is NOT the same as BMR.
BMR is the number of calories you would burn if you were essentially in a coma all day. The "sedentary" setting on MFP already includes a certain number of calories over your BMR. This accounts for a normal activity level of someone who sits around most of the day. This includes walks to and from the bathroom, around the house, light cooking or housework, trips to the corner store, using the computer, watching TV, all the normal stuff that forms a part of an otherwise fairly inactive life.
This stuff is all BUILT IN to your calorie estimate already. Logging it again is double-counting those minimal calories.
Use "sedentary" and then ONLY log workouts that are over and above your normal daily activity. Otherwise, you'll think you need to eat more calories than you actually do, folks!
I'm glad there are some people that actually get it. Sedentary can include walking a mile or two, driving, etc. I've seen people claim that they could have an extra slice of pizza because they drove for 5 or 6 hours yet can't explain how that is somehow different from working at a desk.0
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