Doing the laundry
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smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
There is another issue that is the problem.
I've been telling doctors this for a long long time.
Just wait… That will be revealed in years to come but too late for you and I.
Over the years, I put on a lot of weight. I bought into the "age-induced metabolism slowdown" excuse too. The reality was, it was mostly me slowing down, cutting back on my activity level, rather than my base metabolism slowing down. Oh ... and the extra calories I was taking in while I wasn't doing much activity didn't help.
But last year I reversed that. Controlled my calories, resumed exercising (first walking, then elliptical, then weights). At age 51, I dropped 100 lbs. Showed that metabolism who is boss.
I had to stop making excuses for myself, and start making changes, in order to drop weight.
As a friend once told me ... "you don't slow down because you get older, you get older because you slow down".
Cut back on the calories, pick up the pace, find your younger self again. I know I did.
Yep. Your metabolism does not really slow down that much. You slow down - and that, outside medical conditions, is within your control.
Well done for your progress btw!
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Someone appears not to know what the phrase "Drama Queen' means.
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smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
And I thought that cruise ship in WallE was fictional.0 -
awwww why did they remove all the you people are mean/ why cant my job be my exercise threads, i was really enjoying the whine0
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You mean to tell me all that hard work, walking and lifting, I could have just done was laundry and still lost 121 pounds, geeesh, I wish OP you would told me sooner!!
LOL, JK,
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ROFLLiftAllThePizzas wrote: »smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
And I thought that cruise ship in WallE was fictional.
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smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
Great, now I'm geriatric! Wish someone would have told me!
Can you hold my cane while I lift?
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
Great, now I'm geriatric! Wish someone would have told me!
Can you hold my cane while I lift?
Sorry I can't have a bad back.
LOL,
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Wow. So I'm going to be kind and give the OP the answer she wants. Log it at around 200 calories and eat all those suckers back. Then when you don't lose weight the answer is to eat more calories, just in case your body is in starvation mode.
No need to say thanks :-)0 -
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i can't believe this thread is still going...0
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I don't log it but I wash on the machine then go down from the 5th floor to the next block with a big bag full of wet clean clothes to have them dry, multiple trips up and down.0
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Lolz.0
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amandarunning wrote: »Wow. So I'm going to be kind and give the OP the answer she wants. Log it at around 200 calories and eat all those suckers back. Then when you don't lose weight the answer is to eat more calories, just in case your body is in starvation mode.
No need to say thanks :-)
So true. No need at all0 -
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
Great, now I'm geriatric! Wish someone would have told me!
Can you hold my cane while I lift?
Yeah, I'll spot ya, grandma!
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smythepatricia90 wrote: »When a human is over a certain age the metabolism slows down.
ANY physical movement IS exercise.
However, it may not reduce weight.
There is another issue that is the problem.
I've been telling doctors this for a long long time.
Just wait… That will be revealed in years to come but too late for you and I.
Over the years, I put on a lot of weight. I bought into the "age-induced metabolism slowdown" excuse too. The reality was, it was mostly me slowing down, cutting back on my activity level, rather than my base metabolism slowing down. Oh ... and the extra calories I was taking in while I wasn't doing much activity didn't help.
But last year I reversed that. Controlled my calories, resumed exercising (first walking, then elliptical, then weights). At age 51, I dropped 100 lbs. Showed that metabolism who is boss.
I had to stop making excuses for myself, and start making changes, in order to drop weight.
As a friend once told me ... "you don't slow down because you get older, you get older because you slow down".
Cut back on the calories, pick up the pace, find your younger self again. I know I did.
Yep. Your metabolism does not really slow down that much. You slow down - and that, outside medical conditions, is within your control.
Well done for your progress btw!
Agreed and thanks.
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Iron_Feline wrote: »
Now I see why the other one got shut down.... OP got haaaaaaaaaangry!0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Iron_Feline wrote: »
Now I see why the other one got shut down.... OP got haaaaaaaaaangry!
Well freaking BOOOOO, I missed it!
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nakedraygun wrote: »
Its activity sure, but also part of your TDEE, and not exercise.smythepatricia90 wrote: »I see.…… I remember going to the doctors a few years back ----I'll stage the scene for you.…
Dr is. female close to 300 pounds sits down on a stool ----you know the little round one that rolls all over the floor.
Looks at my chart and tells me that I have to lose weight.
I definitely way a lot less than her…
And at that time I was a housekeeper in a hotel.
and if any of you have done this work you damn well know as soon as we clock in at 7 AM we are walking lifting pulling shoving stripping cleaning cleaning cleaning up until 4:30 PM.
When we clock out.
That is A pretty good nine hours solid of on the go exercise.
That's a lot of work that's a lot of physical exercise.
And yet the doctor sits there on her little round stool with her fat bellowing over its edges and says I must get exercise.
Like a hamster in a wheel that spins.
Have You ever really look at that hamster it's still a round fluffy little creature yet it runs it's little *kitten* off go figure.!
And why fat shame your doctor?
He raises a good point... If you were doing housekeeping, you would put into MFP that you're "active" or even "very active", and it would take that into consideration to calculate your TDEE. THEN you would get your calorie and macro limits, and create a defecit from there... For example, I have a desk job, so my daily calorie intake is lower, because my TDEE is pretty low... I'm not saying you wouldn't burn calories doing this, I'm just saying you take it into consideration when creating your goals...
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I don't log every day activities such as laundry.0
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smythepatricia90 wrote: »I see.…… I remember going to the doctors a few years back ----I'll stage the scene for you.…
Dr is. female close to 300 pounds sits down on a stool ----you know the little round one that rolls all over the floor.
Looks at my chart and tells me that I have to lose weight.
I definitely way a lot less than her…
And at that time I was a housekeeper in a hotel.
and if any of you have done this work you damn well know as soon as we clock in at 7 AM we are walking lifting pulling shoving stripping cleaning cleaning cleaning up until 4:30 PM.
When we clock out.
That is A pretty good nine hours solid of on the go exercise.
That's a lot of work that's a lot of physical exercise.
And yet the doctor sits there on her little round stool with her fat bellowing over its edges and says I must get exercise.
Like a hamster in a wheel that spins.
Have You ever really look at that hamster it's still a round fluffy little creature yet it runs it's little *kitten* off go figure.!
CICO still applies. The saying "You can't out exercise a bad diet", well you can't out work one either.
As far as the hamster, get it wet, it gets skinny.0 -
smythepatricia90 wrote: »FYI...
I have lost 75 lbs.
And because I was forced out of 4 JOBS!
Gone thru a divorce lost my Mother....
The pounds came back.
Not that you care. I'm going to do what I can to improve my health reguardless of people like you.
People don't gain weight because of these things. They gain weight because they eat too much.0 -
I actually lift my 40 pounds of laundry up and down stairs and WALK it through the neighborhood to the laundry mat. Still not counting any calories burned. That's my life.
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lishie_rebooted wrote: »boredlimodriver wrote: »
wtf is exercise?boredlimodriver wrote: »Logging:
45 seconds, folding 2 towels
90 seconds, loading dryer
10 seconds, filling detergent cup
cals burned: 6
Bro, DYEExercise? Think that through before you respond.
laundry?
What's laundry? 3 days in the same boxers crew checking in.
I didn't realize guys still wore underwear anymore.
How archaic!
I'm digging the direction this thread took at the end of page 3. I'm on page 4, and lookin' for more!0 -
Agreed. And how.Weight management is simple (CICO), but it isn't easy (persistence and dedication). I believe people set themselves up to fail because they want to fail. I am always amazed at how many times these threads turn out the same. OP asks for advise, posters take the time to nicely answer them, but yet the OP still gets nasty when the advise isn't what they want to hear.
We're lazy creatures, and when people don't feed that part of our nature, some get downright mean, nasty, and off topic, when the reality is. If they just indulged in a little quantitative analysis, and let go of bias, they'd be getting real answers to their questions, without going apey and insulting people, or talking about irrelevant things like who divorced who.
Agreed, we should all be motivated by reaching our goals though, and not want to bs ourselves, but there's a large group of people that want to indulge in a little bs buffet, and go full Darlene.Anyway, I just don't like bashing of tools when the error typical lies with the user. And not everyone is motivated by the same thing.
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Received that several times homie, didn't work for her. read the thread. lulz.DanniBuchanan1 wrote: »^Part of the reason people are wary of the forums. A simple "zero" would suffice. Rude.
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arditarose wrote: »I actually lift my 40 pounds of laundry up and down stairs and WALK it through the neighborhood to the laundry mat. Still not counting any calories burned. That's my life.
That really sucks.
I'ts great for some extra NEAT and jazz but it just sounds time-consuming and a PITA
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lishie_rebooted wrote: »arditarose wrote: »I actually lift my 40 pounds of laundry up and down stairs and WALK it through the neighborhood to the laundry mat. Still not counting any calories burned. That's my life.
That really sucks.
I'ts great for some extra NEAT and jazz but it just sounds time-consuming and a PITA
That is why I rarely do it. Most of the time I bring it in the shower with me and get all washing done at once.0
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