You can burn calories with housework!
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Fromadaughter
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Did you know you can burn 136 Calories per hour while doing Laundry! What other house hold chores have you found that burn calories?
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I've noticed others using their household work for exercise but I'd never thought of it. I live in a house with 8 other people!! (We are foster parents...) I do A LOT of laundry LOL0
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I bet! I just thought I would share that little tip.0
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I myself do not log housework as exercise as i have always done this diet or no diet!0
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I have a big two-story house. I guess I could lose weight faster if I cleaned the house more. Did my family pay you to start this?? :laugh:0
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Uh yes Maam and I do this and count every chore I do daily. It all adds up!!!0
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I don't log normal every day cleaning but I do log stuff like moving furniture or getting on my hands and knees to scrub floors or gardening,everything else I just look at as bonus calories burned.0
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I don't log it, but a few weeks ago I read this really nasty response about logging excersise so I decided to do a full house clean and wear my hrm just to see.
In the 3 hours it took to deep clean my kitchen, office, living room and bathroom - I burned over 800 calories. That's more than I would have burned had I gone for a 3 hour walk.
Still I don't log it, because I did that before I decided to make changes.0 -
Overhead lifting 20-lbs of bagged (unused thank you very much) kitty litter really gets the heart rate back up to fitness and max burn level. I call it the Kitty Litter Lift! Meow Meow!
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Out of curiosity, I wore my HRM while I did my weekly picking up and I burned about 125 calories for a little over an hour of light cleaning. I thought that was pretty neat!0
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I myself do not log housework as exercise as i have always done this diet or no diet!
I don't log the everyday stuff, but the deep cleaning, cleaning/organizing closets, cleaning carpets, intense food preparation, etc, which are over and above the normal, I log. :flowerforyou:0 -
I log cleaning calories like mopping the floors and scrubbing a tub isn't lazy work. lets get skinny and have homes that are cleaner then everyone elses!0
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I myself do not log housework as exercise as i have always done this diet or no diet!
This is how I feel. Housework is something that I have always done. So, I am thinking that my body is used to it.0 -
I've counted a few times when I've done cleaning-like when I helped my mom clean and paint her classroom a couple weeks ago or when I had to clean the office building for when the higher ups were coming last week but normally I don't cause it's stuff I normally do.0
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I have never logged housework before, but today I spent an hour scrubbing bathtubs and showers. So I figured it should count for something. Today was the only day I was going to log housework, but when I typed it in, there was no listing for it. Any idea how many calories for scrubbing tubs/showers for an hour?0
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I'd never really looked at house work at exercise but when I saw that MFP listed house chores as an exercise, I decided to begin logging it. I feel that any activity that helps me burn calories and assists me with my weight loss journey is worthy of listing!! You'd be amazed how many calories are burned by simple chores as vaccumming or mopping!0
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I don't count my housework / laundry or gardening either, but I am renovating our house at the moment so when I know I'm going to be doing a lot of going up and down the ladder, painting a ceiling (cheap arm and shoulder workout) or putting down flooring then I wear my HRM and I'm always shocked at how much I burn.0
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I burn 2378/24 = 100 calories doing nothing. I will seriously burn 136 additional calories putting my clothes into an automatic machine or does this include folding, ironing, putting away? Or is it 36 calories?
I am all for counting little gains, great believer in the "Fidget factor" and how little bits make a lot rather than nothing making nothing.0 -
Glad to know that. I am a sahm and it seems like I am always cleaning or cooking. I'm not going to track those calories burned, though.0
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so my question about logging housework is this.....didnt you do housework before or during the time you gained weight?0
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Gardening, too! I guess when you're counting calories, every little bit helps, right? If we're counting every calorie in, it's fair enough to count every calorie burned. I cleaned the heck out of my car last weekend. I don't have an HRM, but it would have been interesting to see how many calories a couple hours of washing and waxing a car could have burned - I sure felt it in my arms! I tend to log my cleaning and garden time since it's physical activity, but I don't let it make up for time/calorie burning that should be spent walking or otherwise working out at the gym.0
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