Cleaning Question

BrSpiritus
BrSpiritus Posts: 190 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
How do you usually log cleaning, light moderate vs heavy vigorous? I just spent an hour cleaning the apt from stem to stern and dripping sweat so I logged it as heavy.

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    I don't log cleaning either. The MFP database tends (for most people) to overestimate to begin with. Cleaning should be part of your life, not an extra activity.
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    Don't log cleaning, not even spring cleaning. If I have put so much effort into 2-3 hr, the rest of my day will probably be at a lower activity level than normal.

    I've already watched the England game.
    At a 7am kick off even I couldn't manage crisps and beer.

    And the score was.........naw, someone won, that is all I could possibly say.

    Cheers, h.
  • DomesticKat
    DomesticKat Posts: 565 Member
    I don't log cleaning or anything that isn't intentional exercise, and then I just eat back what my Fitbit gives me. I have five kids and have to clean and do laundry every day. I just set my account to active and be done with it.
  • emmamcgarity
    emmamcgarity Posts: 1,594 Member
    I don’t log cleaning but I usually end up with an increase in my tracked steps. If I am hungrier on a cleaning day I sometimes go over my calorie goal with a healthy snack
  • BrSpiritus
    BrSpiritus Posts: 190 Member
    Well I never eat back my exercise calories because I don't trust mfp's calorie burns. Maybe it's time to get a fitbit that i can synch to mfp
  • moulds2tasha
    moulds2tasha Posts: 5 Member
    I log cleaning but that's because I only do it once a week so it takes me a few hours lol
  • swimmchick87
    swimmchick87 Posts: 458 Member
    I don't log cleaning or other regular activities. I do wear a fitbit, but I find that cleaning doesn't really give me a ton of extra steps, which backs up the idea that it's not really burning a ton of extra calories either. If you're losing at the expected rate logging stuff like that, by all means keep at it. But if you find you're not losing as much as you should, that's the first thing I would look at changing.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,593 Member
    BrSpiritus wrote: »
    How do you usually log cleaning, light moderate vs heavy vigorous? I just spent an hour cleaning the apt from stem to stern and dripping sweat so I logged it as heavy.

    Not for only an hour's work.

    The only time I've logged housecleaning, is when I spent 4-5 hours one evening cleaning and moving into our house. Cleaning, lugging boxes, etc. etc.

    I logged those 4-5 hours as 1 hour of light housekeeping.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,740 Member
    I don't log cleaning as it's part of a regular calorie burn, or should be. I usually only log intentional exercise or something like lawn mowing that is physically demanding and includes about 3 miles of walking.
  • aganey
    aganey Posts: 501 Member
    moulds2tasha wrote: »
    I log cleaning but that's because I only do it once a week so it takes me a few hours lol

    This! Same for me!
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    edited August 2018
    aganey wrote: »
    moulds2tasha wrote: »
    I log cleaning but that's because I only do it once a week so it takes me a few hours lol

    This! Same for me!

    That could end up being counterproductive. Since activity like cleaning is built into your activity every day, by cleaning once a week, you're just making up for the credit you were allotted the other 6 days but didn't earn. Therefore, you likely shouldn't log it separately just because you do it all at once.

    Bottom line? Given you are accurate in measuring your calorie allotment each day, your rate of weight loss will determine whether you are double-dipping in the exercise dept or not. :)
  • dougii
    dougii Posts: 679 Member
    If you ever drove a motorcycle for 10 hours, on the highways, with the big trucks all around, you might reconsider logging "driving". Log as you see fit. Adjust once you see how it works for you personally. A lot of us log odd items as 1 calorie.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    Even the sedentary setting accounts for routine activity. It doesn’t assume that you’re literally sitting for the entire day and doing nothing else. I would not count routine activities like an hour of cleaning.

    Sweating also isn’t a reliable indicator of how many calories you burn. I routinely work up more of a sweat in a half an hour of lifting weights in a warm room than I do running for an hour outside on a cool day, even though the running burns far more calories.
  • auzziecawth
    auzziecawth Posts: 244 Member
    edited August 2018
    I don’t log it. I just look at anything like that as a weekly bonus towards any deficit and loss I might get.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,928 Member
    While cleaning for me is an exceptional event (hush! I didn't write that!) I don't log it even though I might sweat. I only log sport activity.
  • WilmaValley
    WilmaValley Posts: 1,092 Member
    I don't log it.
  • elsie6hickman
    elsie6hickman Posts: 3,864 Member
    I don't log it. I only log purposeful exercise. If I burn a little more energy as result of going through my life, it's gravy.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,593 Member
    elsie6hickman wrote: »
    I don't log it. I only log purposeful exercise. If I burn a little more energy as result of going through my life, it's gravy.

    Yeah ... I figure that if I happen to miscalculate the calories on something I've eaten in the day, but I've done a bit of extra activity somewhere along the way which I haven't counted, it all balances out.

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