calorie counting help?

raybanfan11
raybanfan11 Posts: 12
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
i am new to all these so i need help. when i count my calories burned can I enter the calories i naturally burn a day? I read somewhere that I can burn calorie doing nothing, can i enter that?

also if i use those fitbit stuffs, do i enter the calories i burned? so if fitbit tells me i have burned 1000 calories today cleaning the house or walking in a grocery shop should I enter that? Or no because it is natural burned calorie?

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  • palmerig88
    palmerig88 Posts: 623 Member
    Depends on how you rate your daily activity. Mine is set to light to account for chores at work and home. So I only log actual exercise outside of the norm...
  • KNarrainen
    KNarrainen Posts: 135 Member
    My understanding is that, your calorie goals are based on natural daily burn.
    So you should definitely not enter anything other than actual exercise.

    Things like house-cleaning and walking to the shops are generally not that heavy on calorie burn, unless they are vigourous.

    I quite often log my walk to the station in the morning, but I make sure I am walking briskly and measure my pace with RunKeeper.
    I would suggest not logging cleaning unless it really is vigourous and sustained, as in you break a proper sweat from it.

    Other wise you are in danger of hugely over-eating, but your figures will say you are fine, until you get on the scale that is.

    Hope that helps.
  • avafrisbee
    avafrisbee Posts: 234 Member
    depends on how you set your lifestyle. And where you are at fitness wise. After I had my son I counted cleaning as exercise. I also counted walking to the corner and back. But just standing up out of bed was super hard. I had a c-section and I felt like my stomach was going to come off and fall on the floor. I don't remember much about labor, but I remember the pain of recovering from a c-section very plainly. I also have my activity set to sedentary because I have a desk job. I could increase it to light while I am on maternity leave but I didn't. Now that I am recovered and have the green light from my doctor to do real exercise I don't log cleaning or short walks to the store or whatever anymore. Just walks over 30 minutes and my workouts, and wii and Kinect if I break a sweat.
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