Cleaning!?

What is your activity level set to? If it's sedentary, you can add it, but otherwise it's already added to your daily calorie allotment.

yeah I dont count cleaning cause I figure thats just part of my everyday

nah, definately not...it depends if u sweat your *kitten* off though

What is your activity level set to? If it's sedentary, you can add it, but otherwise it's already added to your daily calorie allotment.

This.

I was here last year. Counted cleaning as exercise, and ate the calories. Lost 30 pounds. When I left, making sure I stayed moving by keeping the house clean is part of what helped me keep the weight off.

I hate the rationale that "I did that when I was fat, so obviously it didn't help me lose weight." That gets thrown around a lot. But you know what? Some "fat people" run every day, or go to the gym and do aerobics, or swim, or all kinds of things that are "real" exercise. They don't lose weight because they're still eating more than they burn. It has nothing to do with the type of movement. Moving burns calories, regardless of how you're moving, so as long as you're eating less than your total burn, you'll lose.

I personally have some "rules" about cleaning calories. I only count things like vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom, mopping the floors, stuff that is actually moving. I usually don't log the entire time I'm working, because I feel that the MFP numbers are a little high for me. But that's me. You can count them if you want, or don't if you don't. See what works for you. If you're having success and feeling good without logging that stuff, then don't. If you log it and it seems to give you too many calories to reach your goals, then stop logging it, or change the way you log it.

nah, definately not...it depends if u sweat your *kitten* off though

That's kinda what I said - but more succinctly!

What is your activity level set to? If it's sedentary, you can add it, but otherwise it's already added to your daily calorie allotment.

This.

I was here last year. Counted cleaning as exercise, and ate the calories. Lost 30 pounds. When I left, making sure I stayed moving by keeping the house clean is part of what helped me keep the weight off.

I hate the rationale that "I did that when I was fat, so obviously it didn't help me lose weight." That gets thrown around a lot. But you know what? Some "fat people" run every day, or go to the gym and do aerobics, or swim, or all kinds of things that are "real" exercise. They don't lose weight because they're still eating more than they burn. It has nothing to do with the type of movement. Moving burns calories, regardless of how you're moving, so as long as you're eating less than your total burn, you'll lose.

I personally have some "rules" about cleaning calories. I only count things like vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom, mopping the floors, stuff that is actually moving. I usually don't log the entire time I'm working, because I feel that the MFP numbers are a little high for me. But that's me. You can count them if you want, or don't if you don't. See what works for you. If you're having success and feeling good without logging that stuff, then don't. If you log it and it seems to give you too many calories to reach your goals, then stop logging it, or change the way you log it.

Perfectly put.

I count it if I do something like move all the furniture out and steam clean the carpet. I am currently stripping wallpaper so sometimes i give myself a little but of cleaning cals on that one.

When I first started, I did log my cleaning calories from everything from vacuuming to dusting (we have 12 foot ceilings and i climb on things to reach) but that was because before I didn't do much to either burn calories or clean my house. As both became a regular daily activity I quit logging my cleaning cals.

I found out yesterday that you can log playing guitar in folk style while sitting. I think that's a little silly. Perhaps you can log pen tapping at that rate. You just kind of need to use a little common sense.

I do when I clean my own room, cause I only do it usually during school holidays and therefore it takes some 5+ hours. I also dance around to music whilst cleaning and do jumping jacks randomly to keep the heart rate up.I use my HRM and it reacons I burn a lot of calories so sure why not?

My daily upkeep I do not log. But for instance, Friday, I spent 2.5 hours cleaning house top to bottom, doing the things that get put off. I always log those big cleaning sessions. I wore my heart rate monitor and it calculated 713 calories. Now tonight when I get home and cook dinner, tidy each room, clean the kitchen, chase the kids around, I will not log that.

I log heavy cleaning - mopping, vacuuming all three floors, scrubbing bathrooms - and also log gardening if I break a sweat by replanting, mowing the lawn, raking. I don't count the normal putting things away ( a constant with two teens) or the light weeding as I am walking in the house. If I get dirty - I have worked hard. I set my activity to sedentary and figure any movement is better than no movement and sometimes cleaning is my exercise. Today we are slated for strong thunderstorms all day so I will do a tape at some point but also spend the day indoors cleaning the attic. That will count! I also set my exercise level to sedentary and use logging all my activity as a motivator. If I plateau I will have to adjust.

I figure I got fat while cleaning my house...cleaning is not some new activity I just picked up LOL. I've been doing it all along the way I picked up 100 extra pounds. I don't count it as exercise, at all.

and I don't understand people who vacuum everyday, weird.

I vacuum *almost* every day. Because I have small children who like to eat toast. Otherwise, yeah, I wouldn't do it. I used to be a twice-a-month vacuumer.

I wouldn’t add it. in my opinion if you aren’t breaking a sweat and maintaining that sweat for 30 mins or more its not really an activity thats going to make too much of a difference.

I don't log average everyday cleaning, only things that I would not be typically doing in an average week. Right now I am logging a lot of cleaning hour because we are remodeling. Mudding and sanding drywall is definitely an additional calorie expenditure.

When I do heavy, intensive cleaning (like overhauling my kids' room) I log it. But I log it as light cleaning to avoid overestimating. I don't log most day-to-day cleaning, just the hard stuff. Looking at my log, you wouldn't see it that way though.