Steps vs activity

dygll61
dygll61 Posts: 3 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
My steps are automatically logged every day. How do I figure in activity (like mowing the grass) without counting steps twice?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Edit exercise to 1 calorie
  • youngmomtaz
    youngmomtaz Posts: 1,075 Member
    Can you not edit it in your trackers app? I have a jawbone up. When I do HIIT, lift weights, etc, I just go into the app, edit that time frame for the activity I have done and it automatically adjusts my calorie expenditure. The steps are counted as steps but it cannot *kitten* my exact movements so I edit it accordingly. Then I don't bother logging anything into mfp and just let the jawbone and mpf sync to tell me what I have burned and what I should add to my calorie intake.
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,488 Member
    You mow the grass every week. You have always mowed the grass every week. It is part of your regular activity.
    No extra calories needed.

    If it is a one off, and a strenuous workout, log it either under gardening, or google it.

    Cheers, h.
  • RobD520
    RobD520 Posts: 420 Member
    middlehaitch wrote: »
    You mow the grass every week. You have always mowed the grass every week. It is part of your regular activity.
    No extra calories needed.

    If it is a one off, and a strenuous workout, log it either under gardening, or google it.

    Cheers, h.

    I see different versions of this statement; but I don't think it makes sense. Lawn mowing burns the same number of calories whether I have ever done it before or not.

    Now if my plan is to hold nutrition and everyday activity constant and create a defecit by adding exercise it would make sense to only log additional exercise.

    But most people new to MFP don't even know what their baseline is. If I was setting my activity as sedentary, I would log the mowing. If I accounted for it when I set my activity level, I would not.
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    For what it's worth, for a basic walking activity like mowing the lawn, I don't bother to separately count it as "exercise" and just let my step counter do the logging - the extra calorie burn is just "bonus" for me. If I am doing more strenuous yardwork, I log it as such. My Fitbit requires a start time and duration and figures out the # of calories above "steps taken." The "burn" is an estimate, in the best case scenario (as is calories in, no matter how rigorous the weighing and measuring). I look at the CICO data over a 30 day period along with my weight#, and adjust accordingly. I have my activity level set to "sedentary" in both MFP and FB applications.
  • dygll61
    dygll61 Posts: 3 Member
    Thanks everyone for the help!
  • Pam_1965
    Pam_1965 Posts: 137 Member
    edited May 2016
    I don't log anything step related as an activity, including my runs. I just rely on what my Fitbit gives me. I use Runkeeper and my Fitbit Flex when I go for a run/walk, but I only use the Runkeeper to check for Fitbit accuracy. My Fitbit always is spot on - miles are always off a little, but calories burned are always the same.
  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
    I have chosen not to get on the Fitbit bandwagon (maybe my loss, who knows?) and my activity level is sedentary (had a long, cold winter). I log lawn mowing and general outdoor gardening activity because I have 2 acres to maintain. I don't however, eat all those calories back due to the variability of the activity.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Mowing the grass once a week can easily be included under the Sedentary lifestyle stetting. You're getting credit for the steps via your tracker. Even if you are pushing it uphill, you're getting credit for the floors climbed too. I'd consider the rest "bonus" burn.
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