Very embarrassing question?

tanny20171
tanny20171 Posts: 46 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Does sex count as exercise?
It's may be wishful thinking, but there are occasional (ok regular) weekends when I have far too many delicious yet super fattening cocktails....pina colada I'm looking at you......and I shudder to think about the calories consumed. The only upside is that the more drunk I get the more I think I'm Beyoncé and start dancing and grinding which I feel in my legs/thighs the next day. Also if I get freaky with the bf does that not count? Like sustained, being out of breath, feeling your muscles working, for like an hour or something....must count at least a little? I was quite surprised that it wasn't an option on the exercise portion of mfp.

What do you think?

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  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Doesn't count. It's accounted for in your daily activity level even if you are set to sedentary. You could bank calories throughout the week to "afford" pina colada calorically, or drink something that is lower in calories. Harder drinks will get you the buzz in fewer calories if that's what you are after.
  • tanny20171
    tanny20171 Posts: 46 Member
    It's really hard as nowhere has the calorie content of cocktails so it's all guestimation. Think I'll switch to gin. I was hoping someone would reply with yeah yeah it burns like 2000 calories so cocktails are totally fine lol. Wishful thinking
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    If you just want to log some exercise so your diary doesn't look so bad with the thousands of calorie cocktails then do it... your body and the scales will show whats actually happening!
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  • tanny20171
    tanny20171 Posts: 46 Member
    TeinyWinehausen wrote: »
    It's not an embarrassing question..logging sex as an exercise has been asked on the forums A.LOT.
    Thanks it's not just that it's the dancing also, I feel a lot less tired when I'm drunk so can dance for hours, and only feel the ache the next day
  • 666dsa666
    666dsa666 Posts: 1 Member
    Well, I think there is no real answer.
    Yes, sex is definitely an exhausting activity and you can easily burn a few calories with it, a few studies show that you can easily burn from 100 to 600 calories doing it.
    But how would MFP count them ? Like any other activities, you need to get some basics information on what have been done, for how long, and a base cal/min to estimate the calories burned.
    Two couples having sex do not have the same rythm and activities, thus burning more/less calories.
    You could try to estimate it, but results could be really different from reality as there is (I think) no trusted base cal/min, and like speed and incline change the cal/min while walking, biking etc, speed and position would change a lot of things.
    You could try to add a custom activity for each sub-activity, but you will also need to estimate or measure how long you did it.
    I personally cannot see myself count those calories and how long I did have sex, that would really kill the whole moment for me...
  • rosfk
    rosfk Posts: 5 Member
    alwaysbloated wrote: »
    Just list it as dancing... happy dancing... horizontal dancing...

    Love it :smiley:
  • tanny20171
    tanny20171 Posts: 46 Member
    Hahahahaha
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Sadly I've had to cut the super yummy sugary drinks except for special occasions. It's very hard to make them fit into my calorie goals. I usually stick to light beer, red wine, or mixed drinks with diet soda.
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