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How do you waitresses out there log your work?


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I am a student at uni and so usually count my activity as either sedentary or lightly active.

During the evening I work as a waitress. But I have always wondered whether I should be adding this work to my burn meter.  Usually, I only add my to my burn meter the amount of calories that I burn at the gym.

If I should be adding it, what rate should I put it at? At the moment, I am trying to lose weight, but it is happening very slowly ( I think I'm building muscle aswell), so should I really be adding more food allowances to my day?

The activity function on CC says that standing/cleaning/walking burns on average anywhere from 100-200 an hour... Is this what others log it at? I don't walk very fast 75% of the time, but 25% of the time, I walk quickly and carry moderately heavy plates.

BTW I usually work for approx 6 hours a day 2x a week (with 4 hrs waiting tables, and 2hrs cleaning/polishing glasses/resetting the tables).

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I would say you are very active.

I would say very active also. I, too, am a server and I know that I'm running my butt off most of the night.

I wait tables 2 days a week for 10 hours at a time. I'm not busy the whole time si I usually count it for 2 or 3 hours depending how much running around I did. We all know that when were busy we are working our asses of. In the activity log if you punt in waiting tables it will tell you how many calories you burn an hour

I work full time as a server in a very large building. I walk in one big circle all night plus steps. We have to carry our own food and drinks plus everyone else who is current too busy to do it themselves.

I wear a step meter. I walk 7-11 miles a night. The burn meter will log 1000+ calories but it does not account for any lifting and all the heavy plates I carry, cleaning, etc.

I have no idea how many calories I burn. I will tell you that I am constantly hungry tho.

I just checked the activity log. It says you burn 136 calories per hour.

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