How many hours of walking?

As others have said - set your activity level to lightly active and don't log it.

emdeesea wrote: »

Not likely that you're breaking a sweat or getting up your heart rate. I would not log it.

You've obviously never worked retail. Downstacking pallets of freight, and then working said cases of (often heavy) merchandise can absolutely cause you to break a sweat and get your heart rate up.

I also work retail, on my feet 40 hours a week. Some days I work tons of freight, some days I walk the length of the store 20-30 times doing various errands, some days are slow and I catch up on paperwork and other mostly sedentary activities. I set my activity level to lightly active and don't log any of it. Unless I do something insanely higher, like unloading a truck or something. I tried setting myself to sedentary and logging something like 1/2 hour walking or something on "rest days", but I found it made me less honest with my food logging, so I put it back at lightly active. Works for me, and I'm still losing.

That kind of thing is really hard to log unless you have some kind of HRM like a FitBit. I would recommend setting your activity level on MFP to lightly active rather than trying to record the actual amount of walking you're doing.

culver531 wrote: »

jcal1021 wrote: »

Hey all!
I work retail and am on my feet all day. I work 7-8 hour shifts with one 1/2 hr break. The rest of the time I am sticking,helping customers,walking back and forth.

My question is, how should I log this? Could I say a low pace walk? How many hours would I put in to make it fair?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I think its important to realize that if your body is use to this routine walking the store etc. Its not really going to help you lose weight, you need to add exercise that is beyond your regular calorie burn. Like a 30 cardio video, yoga meltdown, or outside jogging or walking after work.

First of all weight loss starts in the kitchen

But walking certainly helps and get me fitter than i was.
I lost almost 100 pounds till now, and my exercise was walking every day!

I HIGHLY recommend getting a step tracker of some kind. I have a Fitbit Flex; some people prefer the One or Zip, others prefer similar products made by other companies (Jawbone, Garmin, Misfit).

I leave my activity level on MFP set to Sedentary. Once I go above 2k steps for the day, I start earn calories. If I get in ~10k steps, I earn 400 extra calories.

Considering my goal is 1250 before exercise when I'm trying to lose weight, that extra 400 adds up!

Having my Fitbit gives me some flexibility and I'm more aware of how much or little I move. I can choose to just not be as active if I'm really tired that day, earn fewer calories, and eat a little less.

~Lyssa

I work 12hr days cleaning homes, i dont log any of it. Its part of my daily activity level. When i first started here, i saw people logging things like gardening, cleaning and such. So i thought thats what i was supposed to do. Well it turns out, i was double dipping those calories. So i quickly learned not to log those things..

Get a Fitbit, sync it to MFP and let it figure out what your activity is worth calorie burn via steps taken. As others suggested, you could change your activity level to reflect a fairly active work day. On my end, I prefer to have MFP calculate my allotted calories as sedentary. Some days I'm super busy and active naturally, some days i have to really work at it, and some days I'm a sloth. Knowing my base calories are set at the minimum, it gives me some wiggle room for exercise logged. Because of the variability in my activity, I absolutely log cleaning, and other daily living behavior. At the very least, I just let Fitbit calorie burn be what I go with for the day. Regardless, if you aren't making progress, then you'll certainly need to move more/eat less. Take care.