So I was a little curious. I'm a bit of a gardener. And so I looked up "Pulling weeds", since that's what I did today, for about 2-3 hours. And it said that it burn 318 an hour, that's almost a 1,000 calories for me! Hardy har har!!! I'm on my hands and knees, sometimes my butt, pulling out weeds. I also did the elliptical......so on top of my lovely normal body burning calorie count, I've burned 1,700 cals in addition. HAHA! Anyone else kinda find something like this? Man I wish I could count it though......*sighs*
Just thought I would share a good laugh for today.
I was just about to say something like that.
I don't really believe that I Can burn 65 calories an our by sleeping.
That would make about 520 calories burned while sleeping through the night, with pretty much NO movement.
Wow! I'm going to go plant weeds tomorrow!
lol, thanks vortexcc. I burned about 30-40 calories from laughing! :P
I'd believe that one burns 65 calories an hour by sleeping, because our heart is still working, our brains are still working, digestion is taking place, cellular respiration is still taking place etc. But, I think those 65 calories are taken into account when cc gives you your daily burn rate so I agree that sleep should not be logged separately.
Original Post by tridymite:
I'd believe that one burns 65 calories an hour by sleeping, because our heart is still working, our brains are still working, digestion is taking place, cellular respiration is still taking place etc. But, I think those 65 calories are taken into account when cc gives you your daily burn rate so I agree that sleep should not be logged separately.
Not exactlyright, it takes into account what your average sleep is that you set up for your burn calculater so for instance you only slept 4 hours and you normally sleep 7 then you will be awake that much longer and burn more calories. It wont add 4 hours on top of what you already say you sleep if you log it. Until you put info into the log it is a guesstimate of what it thinks you will burn based on the info you gave it. And 65/hour sleeping is correct , like tridymite said due to all the repair and just the sure staying alive factor is very caloric.
When you were weeding and were active the whole time, pulling, walking etc. then log it as that. If you want to get exact take any breaks out that you stopped working or just log 1.5 out of the 3hrs. The calories burned are based on the amount of energy it takes to do an item, so the harder the task i.e. weight lifting the greater the energy expenditure the greater the calories burned.
Sorry cookk, but I don't think I'm going to be logging down 3 hours of weeding. Because that's not the only thing I did today. I walked, A LOT, the weeding, the lift of plants, and all sorts of things. I'm pretty sure that my calorie out put would SKY rocket to numbers that would be out of this world by the stuff I'm doing all day long. It just seems unreal. Now working out, or really putting your back into something, I'll count. I didn't even break a sweat weeding. I was sitting on my butt. I think your advise is a little misleading. People are going to be counting calorie for chewing gum. Maybe it works for you. But I'm pretty sure if I started counting sitting on my butt as an activity, and all these other things I do all day long, and then started eating more because I was "burning" more, I would do nothing but gain lots of weight for not really paying attention to what was going on. My original post was just for a good laugh. Come on, 1,000 cal for weeding for 3 hours? Then how come everyone that works in an office is over weight, I mean their sitting on their butts, and put in about 8 hours. Shouldn't they be burning 300 cal/s an hour? Sorry but your comment really upset me, it's misleading for others out there who are just starting this.
Original Post by xx_remix:
I was just about to say something like that.
I don't really believe that I Can burn 65 calories an our by sleeping.
That would make about 520 calories burned while sleeping through the night, with pretty much NO movement.
-breathing
-blood circulation
-brain function
-muscle repair
-release of hormones
-digestion
-chemical signaling
Your body is doing a lot more while you sleep than you think!!
Even people in comas need food.
Original Post by vaudeth:
Sorry cookk, but I don't think I'm going to be logging down 3 hours of weeding. Because that's not the only thing I did today. I walked, A LOT, the weeding, the lift of plants, and all sorts of things. I'm pretty sure that my calorie out put would SKY rocket to numbers that would be out of this world by the stuff I'm doing all day long. It just seems unreal. Now working out, or really putting your back into something, I'll count. I didn't even break a sweat weeding. I was sitting on my butt. I think your advise is a little misleading. People are going to be counting calorie for chewing gum. Maybe it works for you. But I'm pretty sure if I started counting sitting on my butt as an activity, and all these other things I do all day long, and then started eating more because I was "burning" more, I would do nothing but gain lots of weight for not really paying attention to what was going on. My original post was just for a good laugh. Come on, 1,000 cal for weeding for 3 hours? Then how come everyone that works in an office is over weight, I mean their sitting on their butts, and put in about 8 hours. Shouldn't they be burning 300 cal/s an hour? Sorry but your comment really upset me, it's misleading for others out there who are just starting this.
How you choose to log it is your business, and I said to be honest when you count it. Breaking a sweat has nothing to with amount of work done. I said take the time you were actually pulling weeds and log that then log the rest as some thing else like walking leisurely or only log the 1.5 hrs and assume that it balances out. The fact is every thing burns calories and until you log it you have no idea how much you are doing. How do you know you are eating enough, to much or just right until you have logged all of your actvities for the day? And office work would burn 300 calories an hour if you were 400 lbs. If you don't like/trust the tools on this site then try another on like this and compare the two calorie expenditures, they will be close. If you were weeding for say an hour that would be 300 and walking around at 2mph for 60 min that would be an additional 200 give/or take depending on size and standing for 60 min that would be an additional 100. So that would be 600 calories, not exactly nothing. How am I misleading? Calories burned would be = to the amount of energy it takes to do some thing that is relevant to your weight and time. Walking for 20 min, 150 lbs at 3 mph would = 100 calories as well as running 6 mph for 10 min (same distance traveled - 1 mile) would also = 100 calories. The difference is energy expended to go fast but it is for less time thus the equal calories. Every thing takes energy even sitting on your butt. If Calories in are more than what you burn then you gain weight, if they are less you start to lose weight.
Well, Gardening can run from a different amount of numbers, your weight has to go into it as well as the activity you had done for the day. I found a chart that don't list my weight or my height, and I'm sure it's not that far off from wrong or right.. If all of this is right, these tools they put up for us, then I would be burning around 6000 calorie a day with all the crap I do.
Gardening for a person who weight is 130 is 295 per hour calories burned, and that is 885 calories burned (x 3 hrs). These charts are no where near right, but they are okay to use. I can understand your reason for not logging them. It's your choice. Just add in what you want.
I use these things, but I always knock of a few of the calories, because I know there is no way in hell I've burned that much. Like my Elliptical has me burning 306 calories after 30 mins on that thing, and I feel I've burn more than that, because I'm working different levels during my whole workout. I even burn the same amount on working out on the lowest of levels, so really. I don't trust these things. It's just giving you an idea on what you may have (burn) period.
It's your log chart. Log them in however you want too. That's how I feel about it.
Just to add that for me, I think it says I burn 90 calories per hour if I do nothing. So if gardening burns 300, it would calculate it as 300-90, so its really 210 calories 'extra'. I figured this out after I would log an activity, and my burn meter added less than what it said I burned. Also you aren't just sitting on your butt, you're leaning, grabbing, pulling, digging, etc. Sometimes I do feel like maybe it's not completely right too, so I might put in 50min instead of 60, just incase.
Here in AZ if you can pull weeds by hand you are probably burning a lot more than than 300 cals an hour LOL -- Also amt of sweat has nothing to do with calorie burns -- I know because with my night sweats (thank you perimenopaus) I'd probably burn calories like a marathon runner!!!! Gardening is a good form of exercise but you can't blanket how many calories burned calculations by a website IMHO -- I mean if the ground is soft and semi muddy its going to be a lot easier pulling those weeds than say when they are in caliche like here in az
"I didn't even break a sweat weeding." was a figure of speech, a bit of sarcasim if you will. Maybe it came across as me being ignorant. I know quite a bit about burning calories. And maybe, it's for the simple fact that I wear a heart monitor every once in awhile to count how many calories I burn in a day, so I'm not out there "guessing" and in result hurting my body. I've been through too much to guess. I'm very scientific, and I have a lot of little tools that help me. I just think that logging down everything is a little too much, and a lot of guess work. In the long run it really only hurts me, until you actually know how much your burning will the results be truely defined. These online tools aren't scientific at all, they're ball parks for everyone. But if what your doing works, then great (truely do mean this). I'll stick to my ways, I have lost weight and I feel amazing. 32lbs in total. I guess I can say that I'm not really here to use the burn meter, more for the calorie counter (which isn't all that reliable either *sighs*), and to talk to people. Granted, I am no doctor. I just thought that is was misleading because these online "tools" are really just guesses. I'm more for listening to your body, and using actual physical tools to measure your body's progress. Not looking up on different sites and trying to "guess" how much my body is really burning. Everybody is different. And that's okay.
The funny thing about this post is everyone is correct. Weeding can burn around 300 calories and hour or it can burn less. It depends on the definition of weeding.
Is it nonstop big ass thistle weeds that you have to strain to get out of the ground or is it sit on your ass and pull the small grass weed that comes out without any trouble weeding? Weeding means different things to different people. I would say by vaudeth's definition she was doing more of the sit on your ass and pull easy weeds vs pulling big weeds that take a huge amount of effort to get the 4 mile roots out of the ground.
Now if we could only figure out who put that in CC we could ask them what their definition is and get to the bottom of this weeding mystery.
In the meantime I think I will let the weeds in the garden get bigger before I pull them. Ok I going to use a gas powered tiller but its still weeding so 300 calories per hour baby! Woot.
Well, I am going to put it like this. You know how much you burn at the end of the week.. You can burn enough to lose a pound, or burn enough to maintain a pound. Or you can just eat too much to gain a pound or not enough. These numbers to me are just give it your best shot reported numbers. I don't know who did those test, but everyone body burns calories different.. If someone told me I burn 5 calories a min I wouldn't believe it. You have to believe what you see at the end of the week. Or at the end of every 2 weeks..
You gain or your lose, this don't mean a hill of beans to me.. Really it don't. The fact of the matter is, I don't log what I've done on this CC meter half the time.. I really forget too. I keep little notes for myself.. If I lose a pound great, if I don't then I need to look at what I ate, because I know for a fact I've worked my (A) off that week. You are all right on this, but we all look at it different. It's the level of work you are doing.. Not just that, but so many factors go into these numbers.. Not only that.. Who is the one doing these numbers, and reporting on these test..
Do they work out every weight group to give us the right facts.. Do they list the level of work that has been done.. Really not all the time.. It's a guess.. Plan and simple.. It's a guess, and we have to look at the scales, and that's another guess too.. Just look at the fit of your clothes and your body, and you can see what's up. Your own eye is the better judge... Not these meter's and tools. I have spent my fair share of money on these things, and I still feel each and everyone of them are off.
I should have gotten a pair of walking shoes for the money I've tossed into these meter's. LOL... They are what they are. Just a guess.
I once got a snapple cap that said that one burns 26 calories a minute while kissing. Stupid Snapple Cap Facts. If that were true, then one could lose a pund by making out for an hour and a half.
I... don't ANY log exercise for exactly this reason. :x I just know that I did it, and that's good enough for me.
I think the calories burned for various activities listed on this, and other sites, are estimates at best. Each individual body is going to burn calories at different rates. However, gardening, including pulling weeds, is physical activity and you do burn a significant number of calories doing it.
I think one point that needs to be made here is that regardless of the amount of activity you are performing in a given day, you need to balance it with what you eat. Consider that just a few cookies or one slice of cake has hundreds of calories. Now look at how long you would have to continuously perform any activity to burn off those calories. Now, consider how much nourishment and satisfaction you are getting from those cookies or slice of cake. It's not that hard to do the math to figure out that in order to make this work you need to make healthy food choices and move more.
LOL I know just what you mean! I mowed my lawn the other day and went to log it. 603 cals/hour! I would have thought it would be the equivalent to walking slowly which is 219/ hour for me. Sometimes I don't know where they get some of these numbers from!
It is 600 calories per hour with my push mower...now with a motorized one that practically runs itself then yes you should probably put it down as walking.
You have to use your best judgment on how much effort you are putting into it to get the most reasonable estimates.
If you log your sleep hours on CC the total calories burned will be reduced.
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