Manual Labor

Are you asking as (1) this will be a weekly occurrence, (2) just curious about that 1 odd day, or (3) do you think you know, and asking the Internet for a guess for fun?
Your question could be taken several ways.

If the first, then if you are tracking calories and weight lost for several weeks average, you can figure this out on your own as you have variables of calories eaten a day, weight lost a week, lbs = 3500 calories.
If the second, what does it matter as its a odd occurrence. Eat a dessert if you like or feel you need to, to compensate.
Thirdly, my answer is C... do I win?

probably not a ton. i would just let it ride, maybe have a slice of pie, and count it as bonus weight loss, if any.

I had a couple days last summer where I was tearing down an old garage / shed by hand. Well... it was by hand for the first hour or 2, then a 2nd person showed up with screwdrivers for another hour or so... then went out to buy crowbars and an electric saw. All told, I was sore at the end of the day after literally pulling apart solid heavy boards, shingles, and a metal garage door old-school demolition style (i.e. literally just ripping it apart), loading into a pickup, then unloading by hand at the dump. We tried to do it smart so we would pull out support beams and then the rest would implode into itself, but that was much easier said than done. After taking out 1 wall, we hoped the roof would fall in. It didn't, so we took out a 2nd wall (the next easiest, which was perpendicular to the first wall that was out). That made the roof lean partly in, but not totally fall. We finally noticed there was a single support pole from the ceiling to the ground that was preventing the roof from falling in. We didn't clear the junk out from the building first because that was all going to be junked anyway and it would be easier to reach after the structure was down, so.... neither of us noticed this pole until it had been in the way for awhile.

The dump tickets were 800-1,100 lbs. each load and there were 6 loads over 2 days. I'm the only one who was there the entire time, while 1 person helped most of the 1st day and a 2nd person helped for a few hours of the 2nd day. All in all, my HRM showed over 3K calories day 1 and less than 2K on day 2 (it was a shorter day and was mostly finishing off the last wall and loading/unloading, so that makes sense). What you describe, using my experience as a subjective baseline (which I grant the HRM is the best data I have, but is still very fallible in this case), is probably closer to 800-1,000 calories. That assumes you are my height and weight (5'6" and about 180 lbs. at the time).

JoRocka wrote: »

If it's a one off event- go enjoy a pizza and a boat load of beer- and go back to your normal food the next day.

Ha! I came in to say the same. 'Bout a pizza and a pitcher's worth burned. That's about the going rate for me (well, half a pizza only for little me, lol).

I don't know how many calories but I can tell you that when I worked manual labor every day for 8 to 10 hours it was pretty standard to eat large lunches and drink lots throughout the day to replenish the lost fluids and calories. Once I switched to am office job, I reduced my food intake by about 1000 calories, got a standing desk, and started HIIT. Otherwise I would have been in trouble. Take care of yourself and glad you got that done!