November Ultimate Accountability Challenge (UAC)

leanerstrongerhealthier wrote: »

I am in!

@leanerstrongerhealthier. Great to have you along. Love the name.

ka97 wrote: »

Is there any flexibility around the 20min/day of exercise? I intentionally build rest days into my workout schedule, but still average 7hours/week of exercise. Otherwise this sounds perfect for me.

@ka97. Exercise should read "activity". Housework counts, gardening counts, shopping counts, swimming with the kids counts, etc... Anything out of bed and off the couch is generally good.

Rest day usually means nothing strenuous. It does not mean a total lack of activity.

For me a rest day is a 20 minute walk at a leisurely pace instead of the usual 5+km at near full pace.

Hope this makes sense.

Would love to have you along. We enjoy hearing other stories, sharing their burdens and cheering on their successes.

ka97 wrote: »

okaaaaaaaaay......I do really think this is the challenge for me.

craigo3154 wrote: »

Exercise should read "activity". Housework counts, gardening counts, shopping counts, swimming with the kids counts, etc... Anything out of bed and off the couch is generally good.

To be honest I don't count "activity" only intentional exercise - meaning that I do it for the sole purpose of the exercise. Exercise requires special clothing or equipment. If I'm in my regular clothing, it's not exercise.
Shopping, cooking, cleaning.....that's all daily life. And I did all that stuff when I was fat.

So that's just my hangup. It's going to be really hard for me to say "20 minutes cleaning the house", but I will. Count me in!

@ka97. I know a lot of people that spend a VERY large portion of the day sitting and not doing much. If their step count for the entire day reaches 1000, I'd be surprised.

The idea is to encourage keeping an active lifestyle (not just exercise with special clothes of equipment).

Most of my daily walking is in what could be deemed regular clothes (even though it is at a pace that others find hard to match - the track pants are the only concession there, and that is to stop chafing). My nightly bodyweight strength training is done in the bathroom with no special equipment (nor special clothing).

20 mins cleaning the house is quite acceptable. You are up and moving around, dusting, sweeping, scrubbing, washing. It can even be quite exhausting. (A rage clean can even be quite cathartic )

fe452436 wrote: »

October 29th:
Cooking Cleaning,Household activites,Less eating today
Tomorrow I will try my best to record everthing I eat.But I don't know how people calculate calories.

@fe452436. Calculating calories for activity is only important *IF* you plan to eat them back or need to include them in your daily budget.

Most days I am so far under budget that I do not eat back any calories from walking (I do not record non-walking activity for calorie purposes - even the strength training).

Exercise or activity calories are always an estimate. The only real way to measure is a VO2 max test (think breathing apparatus that can measure difference between O2 inhaled and O2 exhaled). MFP has estimates for calories burned for all types of activity. If an MPF activity does not match what you want, a quick google search can get you a reasonable estimate (or at least how to work it out).

Calorie in food are always an estimate too, but it's the best we have to work with. Why a food calorie is not a calorie is a topic for a much longer post in a different place.