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  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    I take it as a bonus and don't stress over the days I go over by a bit. That's my choice and it's my weight loss. I really don't care who logs what and for what reason, I just don't think logging standing or shopping counts so I choose not to log it.
  • Family_Man
    Family_Man Posts: 53
    Moving is moving. Getting off the couch and staying busy.

    Maybe people take for granted some things others find difficult. I know a person who weighed almost 400 pounds and to walk to the street to get the mail was a workout. Then it became walking to the next mailbox (no, not to steal mail lol) and then back. She added another mailbox and kept it going . She is now under 200 pounds and if she didn't start her "mailbox" workout, she may have never seen the onederlands.....

    She is my aunt and I'm proud of her!
  • zela
    zela Posts: 92 Member
    I worked construction labor in the summers on heavy bridge and highway work 10-12 hour days, 5-6 days per week, (very physically demanding) and not a single calorie from physical activity was tracked those summers. I don't even understand why people would be so ridiculous to input a cardio session or a lifting workout??? You can't even begin to calculate the additional calories burned from those activities correctly. I think its a excuse for people to indulge more food, maybe self control is the issue and plugging those calories is an excuse.

    Here is an idea, stick to a regular training schedule and adjust your caloric intake based on what the scale shows. Saved your self the time and free up your life, in my opinion you are going to an extreme that will eventually lead you to burn out and quit. Many other things to be enjoyed in life than going through the trouble of counting calories burned from chewing your dinner, trust me.
  • HC82
    HC82 Posts: 22
    I don't understand why people get mad about it either. OK ya, if you counted changing the toilet paper roll as exercise that would be pretty stupid but I'm pretty sure sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, going back up and down stairs with full laundry baskets, etc. is all active thus burns calories. On the days when I clean my whole house from top to bottom, I am motoring for hours straight and I usually break a sweat so damn right I'm gonna log that **** as exercise!

    I usually log cleaning a couple of weeknights per week when I have a particularly hectic evening: some nights between entertaining the kids, cooking, cleaning, taking kids to the park, bathing them, rushing around to 10000 things I have to do, I know that I haven't sat down in 3-4 hours so I'll log an hour or two as cleaning and I'm pretty sure that is fair. My day job is sitting but my second shift as mother is sometimes physically exhausting so I count it.

    Also, not that it really matters, but Livestrong has a lot more things to count as calories burned...groceries, childcare, sex (hah!), etc. ( I used that last year for a while but quit and then joined here)
  • IAMDDAY
    IAMDDAY Posts: 771
    1. Why do I care what someone else is putting into their log. their life their business

    2. Who am I to say what is exercise to one person that is not to another. Soccer for me is not exercise it is fun and I never realize how tired i am during or after. Same thing with golf i walk 18 holes and never think of it as exercise. Now am i wrong for not logging that? .. No you know why because its not your life or business.

    3. If you are here to support people.The fact they are up and moving and logging their food should be what you do as a friend on a friends list. I will help you get to your goal by telling you to keep going and push harder or as the great Shawn T would say dig deeper. But how you choose to get there is up to you!

    Sorry for the rant but if you log mopping or whatever.. fine do it.. if you do it every day change your daily routine and get the extra calories without logging it or not its up to you and you only.
  • Lift_hard_eat_big
    Lift_hard_eat_big Posts: 2,278 Member
    I would log the chore if it is something that I don't do on an everyday basis e.g. chopping wood, shoveling snow, etc.
  • darrcn5
    darrcn5 Posts: 495 Member
    People log differently, and as long as you are consistent in how you do it, I don't think it matters. I have my self set to moderately active to cover chasing around DS, cleaning, running, errands, etc. I do log yard work or anything REALLY out of the ordinary for me. A friend of mine on here is set to sedentary and logs shopping, cleaning, slow walking, etc. But we are both losing weight! As long as you don't "double dip" and count the burn twice, I think whichever way you want to do it is fine.
  • MelC2564
    MelC2564 Posts: 182 Member
    If you want to log your chores as exercise then do it, I don't know why you need to start a debate on the forums to justify it.

    And its not like people couldnt walk, run or swim before the time of gyms so that point really is just irrelevant.
  • cmeade20
    cmeade20 Posts: 1,238 Member
    Despite the fact that I seldom clean beyond keeping up with the dishes and laundry, I dont log it (I totally half *kitten* all cleaning). But I also say to each their own.
  • jnhu72
    jnhu72 Posts: 558 Member
    I do a lot of "chores" and count them as exercise. My chores are very labor intensive in my open though, mowing the yard, stacking 75-100 lb bales of hay, hearding sheep, building fences, that kind of thing. I guess to each is own, but I think the thing people are getting at is that standing isn't going to burn that many calories. I was curious after I read it, and the difference for me in a 10 minute period using my HRM was 2 calories so its only a 36 calorie difference.
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
    If you set your profile up as a SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE- this means you sit around ALL DAY, do NOTHING ,then you log your chores!
    If you set it up as active, then it already includes your chores.
  • econut2000
    econut2000 Posts: 395 Member
    I say you are RIGHT ON!, because the whole thing I am trying to re-orient myself toward is the idea that I need to think of my calorie burning as activity rather than as exercise. Exercise is a loaded word for me that has emotional baggage tied to our culture and my child hood and my young adult hood and the past in general. However, the word activity is neutral. I want to have stable weight in my life. Calories are super-available and so is activity. I don't clean the house at all, because my spouse does all that. If I added that activity, then I would be adding the burning of about 150 calories per hour. That is the way my life is today due to my new orientation about balancing activity and calories. I am a 6'7" 209lbs 45 year old who sits behind a desk all day. I have lost 21 lbs since April by using the myfitnesspal app on my phone and increasing my activity.

    Rock on and make it bloody!!!!

    Beets are good too (cooked and raw) ; don't eat them around white material.:

    I LOVE this! It is so me. Before I had my health issues I was a runner - if I wasn't running it wasn't exercise. It didn't matter what the heck I was doing; and it had to be at LEAST 4 miles or it wasn't even a run. What?!? lol My perspective on the word exercise has certainly changed. Just getting off the couch is now "activity" (I think I like that word better).

    Congrats on the weight loss and enjoy those beets (away from all things white of course!)
  • SteveO5198
    SteveO5198 Posts: 16
    Working outside in the heat and sweating your *kitten* off is exercise...nuff said!
  • loseweightjames
    loseweightjames Posts: 360 Member
    Because chores are a part of your daily routine. You don't account for them because it's a normal part of your day. You might as well log your trips to the bathroom as Walking, 2 mph, slow pace (2 minutes). It's basically the same thing. I think anything you have to go out of the way to do that requires strenuous effort can be logged. Everything else is null.

    THIS
  • BelleHeart
    BelleHeart Posts: 281 Member
    Chores count... especially if you are doing some hard-care work. I did a clean up at a local park one saturday and that definitely took a lot out of me!
  • econut2000
    econut2000 Posts: 395 Member
    If you want to log your chores as exercise then do it, I don't know why you need to start a debate on the forums to justify it.

    And its not like people couldnt walk, run or swim before the time of gyms so that point really is just irrelevant.

    It's not irrelevant. People didn't do these activities for "exercise" they did them to survive which is my point!!! Walking and running (not so much swimming) were part of people's chores and lives. They didn't go for an after dinner walk to burn a few extra calories.
  • emstgm
    emstgm Posts: 117 Member
    Why on earth do people get so upset about what others log as exercise? Goodness gracious, why do you care? We are all on different journeys. We're not all heavy lifters or marathon runners for crying out loud. It's a ridiculous topic.
  • loseweightjames
    loseweightjames Posts: 360 Member
    haha, chores are so NOT a part of my daily routine.

    I work full time and go to school full time.
    In the school holidays is usually the only time I have to clean my room which will usually take some 5+ hours. I use my HRM, put some music on, wiggle away and my HRM says that I burn 1000+ calories so why shouldn't I log it? It makes me sweat for sure.

    if you're cleaning for 5+ hours, that's not "cleaning" anymore. Just like walking to the bathroom isn't "walking"
  • loseweightjames
    loseweightjames Posts: 360 Member
    If you're logging it so you feel better about eating more, than you probably shouldn't log it.

    ^^Winning answer is...^^

    this
  • Arleigh7
    Arleigh7 Posts: 150 Member
    Well I log a certain pleasurable chore as "Cardio" but unfortunately it doesn't happen as often as I would like! :)
  • gr8pillock
    gr8pillock Posts: 374 Member
    I put my hrm on and folded laundry for a half while listening to music and wiggling my bootang and I burned over 200 calories. Damn straight I logged it. :)
  • reese66
    reese66 Posts: 2,920 Member
    Because chores are a part of your daily routine. You don't account for them because it's a normal part of your day. You might as well log your trips to the bathroom as Walking, 2 mph, slow pace (2 minutes). It's basically the same thing. I think anything you have to go out of the way to do that requires strenuous effort can be logged. Everything else is null.

    My house isn't that dirty that chores have to be daily activity. Dishes are, trash when needed, light sleep when needed and a wipe of the counter, but deep down scrubbing, mopping, vacuum running up and down the stairs for laundry however are not. What I do everyday is walk and I walk fast. I don't log any of this. I only log when purposely set out to walk or run for 30 minutes or more but that is me and my choice.
  • zaithyr
    zaithyr Posts: 482 Member
    Trying to herd a cranky 4 year old into the bathtub when Yo Gabba Gabba is on... makes marathons look like skipping to the mailbox.... :bigsmile:
  • htalexander
    htalexander Posts: 81
    I am with whoever said it depends on the kind of cleaning...I have two little ones so I constantly pick up, wipe off, sweep here and there, dishes, laundry ect..and no i do not count it, I just figure if I do lose more doing these extra things I will be pleasantly surprised in the end..I do however have a day of mopping all the floors and i do log that because its more strenuous and I also log when I rearrange and/or move furniture to do major cleans. It just make sense to me.....but feel free to disagree..lol I have however, thought of logging lugging around my giant 13 month old who doesn't have walking down queit yet! LOL
  • zaithyr
    zaithyr Posts: 482 Member
    I am with whoever said it depends on the kind of cleaning...I have two little ones so I constantly pick up, wipe off, sweep here and there, dishes, laundry ect..and no i do not count it, I just figure if I do lose more doing these extra things I will be pleasantly surprised in the end..I do however have a day of mopping all the floors and i do log that because its more strenuous and I also log when I rearrange and/or move furniture to do major cleans. It just make sense to me.....but feel free to disagree..lol I have however, thought of logging lugging around my giant 13 month old who doesn't have walking down queit yet! LOL

    I hear ya! My 5 month old is over 18lbs! lol!
  • timmymon
    timmymon Posts: 304 Member
    cleaning will get you jacked that's why...duh
  • jpbeck
    jpbeck Posts: 30
    One of my MFP peeps logs her lawn mowing. It's great though cause she burns around 1100 calories doing it (she has a big lawn). I just look at that and go damn. But then I got to thinking general landscaping you can actually burn a lot of calories standing, stooping, mowing the lawn, planting plants, tending the garden, etc. It can actually be a decent workout if you do it long enough.

    Now for me I do walks for now because of my weight but I also have a fitbit that logs daily activity, from its perspective of course. It seems to be pretty accurate. It's great because I go to university and the fitbit logs my daily activity of the university outside the walk I do around the campus. Walking to class and back does burn calories. Walking from the bus stop to home burns calories. You get the picture.

    I guess for me what it boils down to is that there is exercise beyond just walking, running, sports, etc. that we all are familiar with. It burns calories so why not count it. Well that's my theory.
  • htalexander
    htalexander Posts: 81
    Well I log a certain pleasurable chore as "Cardio" but unfortunately it doesn't happen as often as I would like! :)


    LOL...really, don't laugh...I have wondering if you can log this..especially, you know the really "creative" kind. It's not in the database though, I have checked! LOL
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    sometimes my exercise diary says " dinosnopro burned 30 calories doing five minutes of alone time " :wink: I log everything. YOLO
  • loseweightjames
    loseweightjames Posts: 360 Member
    Chores count... especially if you are doing some hard-care work. I did a clean up at a local park one saturday and that definitely took a lot out of me!

    cleaning a park is not the same as Sweep Floor, 5 minutes

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