How do I track standing?

I have a disability and have been very sedentary for quite some time. Today I enthusiastically started this program hoping that an earnest commitment to diet and movement - particularly one that included your camaraderie, commiseration, and community support - would help me regain some fitness and quality of life. I am absolutely gobsmacked at the number of snide, mean, and inappropriate comments posted. I quit.

Good grief. Do people only read the title when commenting in a thread? She walked around the room while proctoring the exam, when she would normally have just been sitting at her desk. She was looking to log "standing" only because she did more of that than walking. It is exercise that she normally doesn't have during her work day. You may not think it's *great* exercise because you're all bad @ss gym rats, but she wanted to log this. Why so mad?

Yes but I still think even with leisurely strolling about the room on and off for 3 hours the calorie output would be minimal and she would be cheating herself to log it!! As it is MFP overestimates our calories burned through exercise. IMO this would be over-estimating what you burned for the day.

OP - are you set at sedentary or lightly active?

Very early on in this thread she stated her activity level was set on sedentary - the lowest possible. That's what she was trying to say as she was being bashed for asking a question.

I get that people are going to do what they want to, regardless of what everyone else tells them, but when you ask for opinions, that's what you're going to get. If you only want to hear that everything you are doing is 100% correct, this is not the place to ask.

Dear America, this is why you're fat.

I'm pretty amused by this now.

I'm also highly amused that people get so VICIOUS about this.

I asked a simple question, how many calories above the sitting/sedentary lifestyle I usually live does 3 hours of standing/strolling burn. I didn't even mention that the exam room is a giant theatre so I climbed about 2 flights worth of stairs maybe 15-20 times too!

And somewhere amidst the info this has clearly become a conversation about what constitutes "exercise" (I'd like to again harken to my original post where I both avoided the word exercise AND placed the word activity in quotation marks to draw attention to my loose use of it).

Exercise is of course a touchy subject as we are generally from a society that has issues with fitness and exercise. Just look at the rants around the forums by people who HATE lazy work-out people at gyms, who HATE girls who "stroll" and call it walking. Just look at this thread and realize that people have go-to items to complain about and say are NOT exercise (cooking, sleeping, watching Maury, the list goes on...) and think that tracking small stuff is laughable, that only power-walking or running marathons "counts."

What's the real issue here? I realize now that it's not actually that I asked how to track calories for standing, that was merely the catalyst for a conversation about what it means to exercise, to be a person exercising, and how we exclude people from that group.

Fascinating how a group of people, obese and overweight as most of us are, work SO QUICKLY to mock, ridicule, and exclude people based on small things they do or fail to do. And notice how some of the posts appeal to the other posters to agree with them. The "I bet she counts cooking too" post stands out to me as particularly noteworthy.

Mocking. Abusing. Belittling. And above all excluding.

I guess we learned something to do SOMETHING from the attitudes of certain segment of the skinny population after all! Some of you have found your way to finally be part of the "in" group!

Try this link: http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

Standing burns about 107 calories and hour, give or take, depending on your weight.

inaccurate. That site overestimates exercise calories and underestimates BMR.

As I and couple others have said, standing burns 1cal/min over sitting. this has been measured in a metabolic chamber, which is 100% accurate. Unlike heartrate monitors or guestimates based on MET surveys. There will be some varience based on bodysize. But the rule is you can expect ~30% increase to your metabolism when you stand up over sit.

Wow! This thread really seems to put people on one side of the fence or the other (fence jumping-45 cal).

I think both of these numbers are the same. 107 cal/hour.....minus BMR....probably puts us around the 60 or so people seem to be agreeing on. Of course that's nowhere near the 350 from that "nonbroscience study" the one gentleman posted.

So lets use the 60. For 3 hours that's 180, which is one handful of peanuts. This crazy long thread is over a handful of peanuts. THAT'S why we're saying don't log it. The variance is too small. Easily within the margin of error of all the other things you are tracking. Was your banana exactly 8 inches and did eat that last bruised bite at the bottom? Did they fill your coffee all the way to the brim or did they leave more space than usual for cream and sugar? Did you eat those fries at the bottom of the bag?

Trying to get credit for 150-180 calories is asking for trouble, especially if you're a female with a 1300-1550 daily range. That's a 15% bump for someone with a very tiny window. Just because we think this is a bad idea doesn't make us jerks. There's plenty of reasons that I'm a jerk but not logging standing isn't one of them.