Should I be logging everything in exercise?

I only log the exercise i do purpose, running, shred etc, i dont class walking as exercise for me as i do it everyday so my body is used to it.

maybe not general walking but some people walk for exercise.

i used to set my activity level for light for cleaning and stuff and only log trips to the gym or other planned things. However, recently I plateaud, for the past few weeks and last week i switched it around. I put my activity level to sedentary and i log everything, cleaning, walks, cycling trips to do groceries. Most of these activities i do with my HRM and it turns out I burn a LOT more calories than i thought. So it seems i've plateaud because i'm eating way too little.

Whole point of the story.. As long as it works for you, only log planned things.. but don't underestimate the calories you burn when cleaning or cycling.

I have noticed that some will add more things than others do. I add my exercise, as in what I do on my equipment at home or I have an exercise video and zumba videos. I did add yard work, because I did some serious sweating in doing so. My typical housework daily or laundry, I don't add those. Some might.... depending on where you set your activities. I stay home so I get very little exercise outside of the actual workouts I do. With me doing laundry or cleaning my house, I just consider that as working off the 1200 calories I am allowed daily. If you want to be more specific, you can get one of those calorie counters and when you feel like you are doing an activity that you may want to log, see how many more calories it burns and see what happens. Good luck to you!

My activity is set at sedentary as I sit at a desk all day. I log my lunchtime walk, Wii exercises & stuff at gym. I don't bother logging menial tasks such as cooking, cleaning, etc

I only log cleaning when I do a big weekly clean of the house- not the normal every day stuff like tidying or sweeping. Even then I will log it for half an hour instead of the hour or two that it takes, just to be on the safe side!

I would log gardening because it's quite strenuous and I don't do it very often.

I walk around all day at work but I don't log it as exercise I just have my activity level set as "lightly active".

I only log anything that raises a sweat nowadays. So, if I'm doing housework is has to be vigorous or lengthy. Even then, I only eat back half the calories it displays from the database. Before, when I was desperate for the pounds, I'd log everything then wonder why I wasn't losing weight faster. Now, though I'll be flamed for this I'm sure, not logging everyhting gives me more predictable results.