Shopping, etc? Count as exercise?
lovinmamaxo
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I went food shopping and spent a total of probably 70 minutes just walking around and shopping but it was enough to sweat quite a bit and i didn't sit down once. I know some people don't count certain things as exercise but if it was enough to make me sweat should i count it?
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I suppose you could perhaps log that as walking? You could determine how much of that 70 time period you were continually walking and log that time instead0
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Seriously?0
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If I spend a whole day wandering the mall or something like that, I usually enter about half or 2/3 of the total time I was shopping as walking 2.0 mph. It might not be totally advisable, but my profile is based on me being "sedentary" (I'm a student) so I'm assuming it counts for something.0
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Log is as slow walking 2.0. You may not want to eat all those cals back b/c it wasn’t an intense workout but they definitely count as movement and good for your heart so don't let anyone tell you otherwise.0
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You most certainly can count that as exercise. Just don't make a habit of it unless you feel it required extra effort.0
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Seriously?
Seriously, what?0 -
It depends on what you have your activity level set as. If you are fairly active then no. I don't usually count things like that because it's a part of every day life.0
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I would not log normal activity - Did you shop before you started dieting and excersing? Did you clean you house, cook, etc? It is part of your normal activity...the only things I log that are not at a gym or with weights are mowing the lawn, shovelling snow and gardening if it is really strenous..these things get your heart rate up....my two cents worth anyway0
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i enter it as 2.0 too. and if you pushing an extremely heavy cart (ie heavy bags of dog food etc) you can log it as pushing child in stroller walking 2.0) x amount of minutes.0
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Wow so it does calculate quite a bit burned hmmm
Shopping - groceries, with cart
494 calories in 1 hr 20 min0 -
I went food shopping and spent a total of probably 70 minutes just walking around and shopping but it was enough to sweat quite a bit and i didn't sit down once. I know some people don't count certain things as exercise but if it was enough to make me sweat should i count it?
I would say yes only if you a) have your activity level set at the minimum, and b) you find a way to get your resting metabolic rate out of the calculation.0 -
I would say, you can log it if you REALLY want to, but don't eat those calories back, and don't count them toward your weekly goal burn.
It's something you'd be doing even if you weren't trying to lose weight. And if you count things like that, you're really only setting yourself up for failure.0 -
I count everything I normally don't do. I don't spend that much time in the store, however in the winter time I go to the Mall of America and spend hours just walking around to get out of the house. I would count that.0
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No, its not exercise0
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Heck ya I do. I have two kids and we went thrift store shopping a few weeks ago. We were in and out of like 5 different stores. I only counted the actual walking around, pushing the stroller, and carrying the kids in and out of the car, I looked it up on a site called caloriecount.com and I does count as a form of exercise. I count everything I possibly can. If cleaning your house is a form of exercise then so is grocery shopping.0
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Depends what your regular day looks like. If you are set as sedentary and this is a LOT of extra movement in your day, then I would log it as slow walking. However, if you normally walk around during the day then it isn't going to be a lot different so I wouldn't log it.
To those who mock and say it isn't exercise, if you are a very sedentary person who doesn't usually move much, then walking for over an hour IS exercise. At my weight, walking at 2mph comes in at 187 cals/hour.
Personally, I don't count this kind of stuff because I have my activity settings at "lightly active" to account for the regular walking in my day. The OP may be in a different situation.0
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