Do you count this as an activity?!?

Just wondering if anyone considers "standing" as an activity? Now, I don't mean standing in one spot without moving, but walking back and forth at work and what not. I'm on my feet alot, moving at quite a fast pace at work and during clinicals for school. Would you consider this an activity? CC says standing-light activity-burns 147 calores/hr. I use this to log standing as an activity 4 hours/day usually. Am I cheating myself thinking I'm burning more than I'm not?

Its hard to say, and who knows where those estimates come from.  Maybe being a University student you could get your hands on one of those calorie-burning meters that wraps around your arm? The anthropology dep't. at my school had several and used them in a simulation of the Donner Party's experience in the mountains to try and figure out how much they would've had to have been eating to stay alive.  It would be an interesting experiment if nothing else!

I would say that all that standing/walking qualifies you as lightly active (at least; depends on what else you do).  So, if you're currently set at "sedentary", up yourself to "lightly active" and don't worry about logging the standing/walking.  That's what I do (I teach at a university so spend a fair amount of time standing while lecturing/visiting labs/etc.) and it works like a charm.

I am set to "sedintary" and log all of my activity too.  Standing and moving back and forth does burn more calories than typing a letter. 

On the other hand if you are walking more than just a few steps back and forth, I would look at some of the other walking categories.  

You might also look into a pedometer.  I have one that stops counting when I am sitting and counts when I am moving around.  It keeps track in terms of steps, miles, calories burned and time actually moving.

This is great for those of us who spend some amount of time each day moving and sitting.  I set mine in the morning when I arrive at work and when I leave.  I am always amazed at how much walking I really do during the day.

I have a desk job yet typically get in 6,000 steps on the job each day!  So much for sitting on my butt.

Thank you all for the replies. They definitely make sense. I have myself set as lightly active and then log all of the exercise I do. I think that is all I will log from now on! Thanks everyone!

i think it depends. I teach horse back riding lessons so i log my activity time. 3 or 4 hours on the days i teach. But i walk in circles around the indoor arena next to my riders, help them saddle their horses and stuff like that. So...I would log it, esp if you have it set to sedentary like I do. I only set it that way becuase I have a super sedentary office job during the day. Not much moving involved.

thebest way to go is to set your stats as sedentary and then add this activity and anything else you do aside sitting or laying around or relaxing. if you are set for light activity or anything else, dont include this becasue even light activity calculates for a few hours of standing and light walking around and what not