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Cleaning?

Amo_Angelus
Amo_Angelus Posts: 604 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm a housewife and as such I do "light cleaning" every day, dishes and the dog, plus laundry need taking care of every day and have formed part of my routine so I marked my activity level as lightly active to reflect that. However, today is my blitz day. A load of stuff piled up when I lost my cat and both Chris and I just sat there and didn't tidy, so I'm blitzing the whole house, scrubbing from top to bottom, this will probably last an entire week, and once a week I have a blitz day anyway, where I wash the windows and move furniture around. So my question is:

On these days I'm obviously doing a whole day of vigerous cleaning instead of my hour...two hours light cleaning which is an obvious calorie increase, but what do I put it in my excercise as? Thee days generally go down as 2 hours light cleaning, on top of my lightly active status, but am I marking it too high or too low? What should I put it as?

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  • giaciccone
    giaciccone Posts: 257
    I'm trying to read the last half. It's a little unclear, so sorry if I'm repeating you or something...
    There's a vigorous cleaning effort exercise. I say just stick with that if that is what you're doing.
    I mean if it's out of the ordinary for your day, mark it. Cleaning takes a lot out of you!
  • Artemis_Acorn
    Artemis_Acorn Posts: 836 Member
    I would figure out what you normally do, and deduct that from the total.
  • CARNAT22
    CARNAT22 Posts: 764 Member
    I log everything that is out of my ordinary routine (IE a big mammoth clean) I also log everything that is exercise (IE I walk for an hour a day - with my trainers on purely as exercise - it would take me 20 minutes on a bus LOL so I count that as part of my exercise!)
  • seardefilip
    seardefilip Posts: 96
    YOU COULD ALSO TRY TO ADD AEROBIC ACTIVITY LIGHT EFFORT ETC...
  • MelissaL582
    MelissaL582 Posts: 1,422 Member
    Maybe you can add up all your time actually cleaning during your "blitz" and only log half of the time under heavy cleaning?
  • Bmoviemama
    Bmoviemama Posts: 90
    http://www.healthstatus.com/cgi-bin/calc/calculator.cgi

    I use this to calculate calories burned for other activities such as sex ;)
  • Amo_Angelus
    Amo_Angelus Posts: 604 Member
    The problem comes with my daily light cleaning being included in my setting as lightly active. So I normally do that daily anyway, I'm just wondering how to deduct that because it's already included in my daily ammounts, from the increased activity if that makes sense? Like two hours light cleaning is apparently 355 calories, which is already included in my ammounts at the moment. so...I'm a little reluctant to just put 4 hours heavy cleaning, when the light cleaning is already calculated, if that makes sense? And I'd rather under estimate, than over estimate.
  • TNAJackson
    TNAJackson Posts: 686 Member
    I would use light cleaning, but mark it as how long you actually cleaned for consistantly. If you clean for 6 hours, put 6 hours... just don't include the breaks you take in between the time. Whatever you decide to use, under estimation is much better than over estimation. :happy:
  • gel91
    gel91 Posts: 309
    I tend to clean take away halfhour to an hour depending on how long i'm doing it for and just log it under moderate/light effort cleaning. can't lose that way!
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    The problem comes with my daily light cleaning being included in my setting as lightly active. So I normally do that daily anyway, I'm just wondering how to deduct that because it's already included in my daily ammounts, from the increased activity if that makes sense? Like two hours light cleaning is apparently 355 calories, which is already included in my ammounts at the moment. so...I'm a little reluctant to just put 4 hours heavy cleaning, when the light cleaning is already calculated, if that makes sense? And I'd rather under estimate, than over estimate.

    So if two hours is already included in your daily totals, and you cleaned for 4 hours...........You could log 2 hours as "exercise".
  • mamaDaisyJ
    mamaDaisyJ Posts: 395
    I get what you are saying. I also am 'lightly active' to account for my daily cleaning. I only totally blitz the house about once a month and it includes the garage usually too. On those days, I add 'Cleaning, light, moderate effort' and enter half the time I worked consistently. I try to err on the side of under-estimation too.
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