calculating all calories

http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm

Just exercise calories!

No you should not count everything b/c that is already factored into your lifestyle when you pick that for your baseline. You should only count actvities that are not everyday routine activites and then any exercise.

mfp already includes those calories by what type of normal daily activity level you chose. I only count true excercise that gets your heart rate pumping and causes me to break a sweat.

Like I normally don't mow the lawn so when I do that I count it, because I break a sweat. But doing the laundry and such I don't count, no matter how many times I have to go up and down the stairs. Of course I count my true excercise, running, biking, swimming...

I only factor things that I wouldn't normally have done during my day before I started trying to lose weight. I'm pretty sure that when you first set up your profile and things here, current lifestyle is calculated. I put down a sedentary one (I think that's what I put) because I work in an office setting and am usually sitting on my bum the whole day. So anything extra then getting up, going to work and going back home and all the little things in between goes down as my calories burned, ie. taking a 15 minute walk on both my breaks and whatever exercise/cardio I do morning and night.

I don't want to factor in too many calories burned because I don't want to eat too many of them back...especially as I tend to over-estimate my calories burned and under-estimate my calories eaten....