Amount of calories burned from exercise For things as simple as washing dishes
Just wanted to add a site I am using that helps get an idea of amount of calories we burn for things as simple as washing dishes all the way to jogging.
I have been doing the walking briskly~(Indoors since It's super cold and I have asthma~Plus noone has to see me other than my family~& I ran out of exscuses LOL.)~I am just going from one room to another 60 minutes a day(3 X 20 minutes.I plan to go up to 90 mintues .Anyways,I hope it helps everyone as much as it helps me.(Yesterday I ate a piece of christmas fudge and walked an extra 40 mintues just to burn it off.LOL IT WASN'T WORTH IT>NO MORE FUDGE FOR ME.I am on 1400 calories a day and That was my only goof up this month.Anybody who needs to chat just message me. I am online most days And I am Determined to lose My unwanted weight.GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!! ONLY 4 DAYS TO GO!Sorry for all typing errors ect!http://www.caloriecontrol.org/exercalc.html
UPDATE:POSTED THIS DECEMBER 21st Of 2008. So Just a little over a year ago. ~I ignored the posts that said they didn't think it made any difference basically...Anyways I had only lost 13 pounds When I posted this...Now it is January 2nd 2010 And I have lost a grand total of 93 Pounds! SO THIS WORKS!!! ALONG WITH COUNTING CALORIES!!!
Last edited by Lori259; 01-02-2010 at 02:38 PM.
Reason: updating info
That's interesting. I put in the info for a normal night at a club, and apparently I would burn 2863 calories in 4 hours (because I never leave the dance floor) That almost makes up for the amount of calories I would have consumed with the alcohol. lol
Good idea, Lori. You know, for years I read how doing these "everyday things" wasn't the RIGHT type of activity and didn't help weightloss. How discouraging for a stay-at-home mother. Now, of course they have recanted those thoughts are recognizing that YES, time spent washing floors and cleaning bathrooms DO indeed, count.
Good for you to walk off the fudge. That's the way to do it. If you really want the splurge next time try to work it into your daily intake. You could also "save up" for it a couple of days prior. Fudge is decadent and I have a hard time staying out of it if it's here. That being said, my girls and I are making a batch for Christmas as it's one of their favorites. We use the "Fantasy Fudge" recipe on the back of the Marshmallow Creme jar.
Okay, here's the thing. If you have your tracker set correctly for your daily activity level, then the calorie burn it gives you takes into consideration all those little activities that you do all the time. So it's not like you can give yourself extra credit for doing the dishes, folding the laundry, and so on. If someone got obese while doing those things, it indicates that those activities aren't enough... eh?
The purpose of exercise isn't just to burn calories, although it does that! The point is that muscle burns fat for energy if it is worked for a certain length of time--so you're not just burning cals, you're burning fat! And, this increases metabolism generally, so that you're burning calories even after you've stopped exercising.
I got Obese from over eating Period.you can do exercise all day long but if you overeat with it then you will still gain a bunch of weight.I done more in the summer when I ate more...But still gained weight.
I Think it is great to see How much calories we burn doing basic chores.I Lowered my eating and I am now doing things more often such as washing the dishes 3 times a day rather than 2 And vacuuming daily rather than every other day. I am also Walking More. So I kinda got to disagree with the fact that those simple things do not count. Everything we do counts as much as every thing we eat counts. So In other words...Every calorie Counter is counting calories for a reason. Not to Over eat But It is nice to know the amount of calories we burn From doing basics to more harder things so if we do one day we can exercise it off. I Lost weight just from changing my calorie intake last month with no exercise at all other than "THE BASICS"~The dishes vacuuming/Ect. I lost 13 lbs.
Read this:Weight management may be difficult to achieve, but it certainly is not difficult to understand. When you consume food or drink, you consume calories. Your body burns calories to function, burning significantly more calories when you exercise. If you consume more calories than you burn, you gain weight. If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight.
Because your body requires energy simply to stay alive, you burn calories even when you are not exercising. In fact, you burn calories directly in proportion to your body weight. On average, a male burns 11 calories per day per pound of body weight. The average female burns 10 calories per day per pound of body weight. These figures are just averages. Some people will be higher or lower, since everyone's metabolism is a little different. Fitness Record allows you to specify the value which is appropriate for you. If you don't know, it is suggested that you start by using the average value for your gender.
For example, if John weighs 150 pounds, he burns approximately 150 x 11 = 1,650 calories per day. If he exercises, he will burn additional calories on top of that, depending on the exercise activity. However, if he does not exercise, he must eat 1,650 calories per day, just to maintain his body weight. If he eats more, he will gain weight. If he eats less, he'll lose weight.
For the purpose of calculating expected weight gain/loss, one pound is 3,500 calories. Each time you consume an extra 3,500 calories more than you burn, you will gain a pound. For example, Jane weighs 130 pounds, never exercises, and eats exactly 1,400 calories every day. Her metabolism is burning 1,300 calories per day, so she are consuming an extra 100 calories each day. If she does this indefinitely, she will gain a pound in 35 days, since 35 * 100 = 3,500.
Fitness Record uses another term, called Behavioral Weight. The idea is that over the long term, your weight is determined by your behaviors, and is best illustrated by example. Consider Jane above, who eats 1,400 calories per day. After 35 days of this behavior, she will weigh 131, instead of 130. This means her metabolism will burn slightly more calories than before. If she continues to eat 1,400 calories every day, she will continue to gain weight, but at a slightly slower pace. Eventually, she will weigh 140, at which time her metabolism will be burning 1,400 calories every day. At this point, she will stop gaining weight, since she is consuming the same number of calories that she burns. Therefore, by eating 1,400 calories in a day, Jane is behaving like a 140 pound person. Her "behavioral weight" is 140.
Exercise contributes to your calories burned. If Jane were to exercise, burning an additional 100 calories each day, then her calories burned would be in balance with her calories consumed. She could eat 1,400 calories per day, exercise 100 calories per day, and continue to way 130 indefinitely.
You may now be asking, "Why can't I just eat low fat foods?" You can eat whatever you want. But, non-fat foods can still have calories. Check the food label to find out if eating the non-fat version of a food is really saving you any calories -- sometimes it's not. Many programs recommend moderating your dietary fat intake, and that is obviously good advice. Eating low-fat foods happens to be an excellent guideline for keeping your calorie intake low. In addition, moderating your dietary fat intake may contribute to your health in other ways. However, it will not alter the mathematics of weight management -- you still have to eat fewer calories than you burn if you want to lose weight.
The problem with the way the human body works is that calories counting is tedious and difficult. Most weight-loss programs, as well as the so-called "fad diets", focus on other guidelines which are simpler to follow than calorie counting. However, none of these guidelines alter the underlying principles of weight management www.caloriescount.com
Lori, sweetie, you're preaching to the choir here. I would suspect that most of us on this board are familiar with those facts, so just parroting them back to us doesn't do anything to convince us.
On the other hand, please respect that many of us (Jay and myself included) have lost significants amount of weight and have maintained that loss for a while and therefore we know how different it is to put those facts into practice, and how everyone's body is different.
Yes, it's true that 3500 cals = 1 lbs of fat. Yes it's true that if you increase your daily activity in *any* way, in combination with diet, that you will lose weight.
But the human body is not a computer or a calculator. And there are a lot of things other than just calories in vs. calories out that effect weight loss.
And yes, it's good to know that the chores you do every day *can* help you lose weight. Certainly it's good to, say, vacuum the house vs. sitting like a lump on the sofa with your laptop (she says, doing exactly that).
Jay is correct that when you estimate your daily calories, most calculators take into account that people do regular things every day - get up, do dishes, sweep the floor, etc. So re-adding those items to your daily total can skew your count in a bad way.
Jay is also correct in her comment that burning calories isn't the ONLY purpose of exercise. There are benefits to getting a solid block of structured exercise in that simply doing more household chores isn't going to help you with. And eventually just adding in a round of dishwashing is NOT going to make a huge big difference in your weight loss.
The other thing that I'd like to point out is that a lot of people get tied up in the minutiae of calorie counting and try to justify everything they eat with everything they do - I washed the dishes 2x today, so I can eat another chocolate. Or I vacuumed the stairs, so I can have an extra T of peanut butter. And when you start to micromanage like that, most people wind up giving themselves too much credit. Because whose to say that how you wash dishes and how I wash dishes burns the same amount of calories. Perhaps you wash all of yours by hand and scrub the pots vigorously and I just rinse mine and put them into the dishwasher. Do you think that by doing that we burn the same amount of calories? Probably not.
Also someone who is fit and in shape is going to burn MORE calories doing the same activity than someone who is not - because muscles are more metabolically active than fat. So now, when you calculate that you washed dishes 2x today, are you making sure that you're calculating your calories based on your current fitness weight?
I do think that someone who does something that is not part of their normal routine - like shoveling snow or scrubbing a floor, or spending an hour cleaning the bathroom hard - should give themselves some calorie benefit there. But just washing dishes? Nah, I can't get behind that.
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Last edited by PhotoChick; 12-21-2008 at 06:38 PM.
Wow You all are being kinda rude.I aint preaching. I was trying to be helpful to the stay home moms like myself.Who need help getting motivated..To let them know that every thing we do does count.It took me a few weeks to start walking~because I wanted to burn more than a few calories it stated from washing dishes. Everything we do burns calories. I have been down smaller myself before~Please encourage people rather than discourage that is what this site is for. ENCOURAGEMENT.I was only triyng to share A website I found helpful~If you disagreee Just do not use the website~it's not the site for you. Sorry i Have offended you 2 lady's I was only trying to MOTIVATE & ENCOURAGE ~since this site & the one I Posted Done just that for me
THATS ALL~AGAIN MY APOLOGIES
Um. I'm not sure how to respond to your post. You seem to take everything awfully personally.
No one was attacking you. No one was being rude to you. And no one here was "offended".
Yes, this is a site for support. It's also a site for discussion. Part of support and discussion is ... well DISCUSSING. And telling people "if you disagree just don't say anything" is not a discussion, nor is it being supportive.
What, exactly, do you want from this board? Do you consider that to be support everyone has to agree all the time? Because I don't consider that to be supportive. Sometimes being supportive is offering another point of view for you to consider.
I Am not in the mood For Attack & i did not say not to type if you disagreed. I was just being friendly posting a site that helped me. All I said was if you do not find it helpful then do not use the site.I even apologized so ???Not sure what your problem is?
Those who do find the site useful then I am glad someone else can Use it as much as I have.
A difference in perspective or a disagreement is not the same as being rude. It is important that we do share our different perspectives because what one person finds helpful can trip up another person. Encouragement does not mean agreeing with everything a person says regardless. Pointing out problems we've encountered or seen other people encounter is not discouragement.
Some people find pharmaceuticals helpful in weight loss - many of us have found them to be ineffective and even dangerous. If someone here is singing the praises of a drug, that others of us have found to have been ineffective or resulted in illness, injury or side effects - it is not discouragement to share our experiences.
And that is what Jay and PhotoChick have done - shared their experiences regarding the topic.
I've spent the vast of majority of the last 36 years (since age 5) on the diet/exercise/weight loss rollercoaster - and I have a lot of opinions, and I share them all here. Positive and negative, and I trust that everyone here is mature and intelligent enough to decide for themselves if my opinion has any merit to them. The praises AND criticisms of all are voices are vital to making informed and educated choices and decisions. If all we ever said to one another is "whatever works for you, that's great" well, I personally wouldn't find that very useful. I can be my own cheerleader, but to encounter a perspective opposite my own, and to hear others points of view that disagree with my own do not offend me. I'm grateful for the opportunity to see both sides of any issue - because it helps me judge the information.
Besides which, the term "preaching to the choir," is a term that means essentially "you're arguing a point, that we all agree with." It is not a term of rudeness or dissent.
However, the point that some folks can get carried away with the minutia of calorie-counting (both of food and activity) is a very valid point, and worth bringing up in any discussion. Without it, some folks might believe they are doing something wrong if they're not documenting every calorie "burned" in activity. Because activity calorie calculators are notoriously inaccurate, many folks make the mistake of thinking they can "burn off" overindulgences without realizing that they're not "doing the math" correctly, because "the math" is a lot more complicated than such calculators imply.
Jay and PhotoChick's (and maybe even my) posts are just an addition to the conversation to give another perspective and more information on the dangers of attempting to reduce weight loss to mathematical equations, because, much of the math is NOT, in fact, available to us (we cannot determine based on any of these charts what OUR bodies are actually burning, because while you can determine an average - the range is actually quite wide).
I did find some of what was said previous by the others rude & I think you came across in a better manner kaplods.So thanks for Being Nice Even though you agreed with the 2 others.I have no problem with peoples opinions.No matter~I am tired~My 3 kids need to go to bed. So Sorry If I offended Or upset anyone. I just have my opinions also. Everybody have a great night~AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS. REMEMBER JUST 4 MORE DAYS!
Hey Lori, I'm sorry if you felt attacked. I certainly didn't intend that.
It's OK to try whatever you think will help you lose the weight. You'll find out soon enough with your own experience whether it's working.
My point wasn't that chores don't burn calories--they do. It's that the usual daily chores are not exercise as most people understand that word. But I'd rather see someone be more active generally than worry about definitions.
I applaud your enthusiasm ...even if I agree with Jay, kaplods and Photochick that counting normal stuff you've always done probably won't help too much. But if you are using it as a reason to bump up the time you are moving around? That is ALL GOOD, girl! BTW - my house could use a cleaning tornado like you.
I also think it's great you are researching this stuff - it's all part of the learning process - and you are on your way.
Amount of calories burned from exercise For things as simple as washing dishes
If someone got obese while doing those things, it indicates that those activities aren't enough... eh? 
...even if I agree with Jay, kaplods and Photochick that counting normal stuff you've always done probably won't help too much. But if you are using it as a reason to bump up the time you are moving around? That is ALL GOOD, girl! BTW - my house could use a cleaning tornado like you. 