who logs house cleaning for exercise?

I'm set at light activity, so regular every day cleaning is included in that, but I log cleaning the bathroom or washing floors.

I log it if I do something unusual - like cleaning carpets, moving furniture, etc. I don't normally do the cleaning so if I did participate in a massive spring cleaning or something, I would probably log it. I'm not logging unloading the dishwasher tho!! :laugh:

I have apartments that I manage, so I log the cleaning for these as its usually has me working my hard and fast, but cleaning for my own house I don't log unless I'm doing a proper spring clean etc

my setting is at sedentary; which means my calorie allotment is based on the fact that i never left bed; like a day of pure rest. it doesnt take into account when i get out of bed at all. So i log any cleaning; 20minutes here, 10minutes there, etc. I dont try to log trips to the bathroom or any other daily activity, but i do log when i do extra things outside of standard staying alive, like cleaning. if my setting were say, lightly active, i would never log daily cleaning, i only do this because of the sedentary settings.

I also log cooking/food prep in my excercises when i make meals (like if im in the kitchen for an hour on my feet cooking and moving about the kitchen--i dont log if i spend 2minutes making a sandwich), because standing in general you burn alot of calories compared to laying down.

Alot of cooking, or alot of cleaning, I might log as half the time (something that took me 4hours, i might only log 2hours); i think eating back 1000calories just cuz u cleaned is a bit much and worried that it might not be accurate.

Sedentary actually means that you are sitting most of the day, not that you never left bed. Even the effort of holding yourself erect with your hiney in a chair burns more calories than literally laying down in bed all day. I don't log my cleaning calories because I have always done all those things and I gained weight anyway. To me, it is all a part of my normal daily energy expenditure.

I log cleaning sometimes. Depends on what I'm doing, how active I've been lately, etc. I don't "clean" every day -- I pick up every day, but I vacuum 4 times a week, and mop when it needs done, and so on. So it's not a daily activity for me. And when I do log it, I eat all the calories.

As I've said on most of the other threads about this topic, it doesn't matter if you log it or not. Your body burns a certain amount of calories doing those things, and you need to eat enough to fuel your body. Cleaning does burn calories. The trick is to be honest with how hard you're working. If you pick up the toys in the living room and log it as 1 hour of heavy cleaning, you're going to be getting an inaccurate number of calories burned, so if you eat all of them, you'll be eating too much. If you scrub your house top to bottom and don't log it because you think cleaning doesn't count, you've burned a lot of calories anyway, so if you don't eat more you may not be getting enough calories to support all that activity. It's about being realistic with yourself.

I drink so much water that I log the trips to the bathroom, lol. just kidding

LOL!!!! Tell me about it!!! I figure when I drink as much water as I'm supposed to that I'm going every 15 min... :P

....and yes I definitely add cleaning calories. Of course washing dishes isn't much of a burn :-) so it really depends on the cleaning and the intensity... Sometimes I think the calories burned is kind of high in the database so I've actually debated just not putting them in to my diary. I guess having an HRM might solve that so you would really know what you burned when you did it. :-)

Since it takes me 3 to 4 hours to clean my house I most
certainly use it as exercise.