The sedentary setting on CC already includes basic daily activites such as showring, sitting, walking around at a desk job, etc. I only log actual exercise that gets my heart rate up. I hope this helps!

I wouldn't think you would need to log that.  If all you do all day is sitting in class, hopefully you chose either sedetary or light activity when you set up your profile.  The 142 calories for sitting should definatly be included in the 1940 calories that you burn just for being alive as you put it.  You could then log any actual exercise that you do.  Since I'm pretty new here myself, hopefully someone else will chime in. 

Okay, thanks. =]

Just making sure. But how come you can log it if it's included in your 'just being alive' calories burned? Idk. It's kinda silly. xD

The more actual time you log the more accurate count you will get.  Even a few calories an hour can make a difference.

i do know that if you picked sedentary as your activity level it assumes you're sitting down for most of the day, according to some of the tagged literature. 

that aside, i think that you'd go insane if you tried to log every little thing.  the calories burned thing is an estimate, and take it as such.  unless you're doing something significant like cardio, or are hovering dangerously close to your bare minimum caloric intake (which you shouldn't be anyway), i wouldn't worry about all of that. 

The thing is, the calorie log adjusts to take off the time from your "just being alive count" when you log in like, "sitting up straight". Like, if you log in an hour and it's 142 calories, you burn that 142 calories instead of what you normally would have burned, so that 1940 number probably won't go up that much. I don't know if I'm doing a very good job explaining, do you know what I mean?

I am honestly not sure if I get it. I am hard to explain things to. I think I'm catching on though.

What do you mean that it "adjusts to take off the time" from your "just being alive count"? Sorry if I'm being annoying. D:

Ok, I don't think I did a good job explaining. According to CC, just being a lightly active person, it is estimating that you're burning about 80 calories an hour. If I were to work out for an hour and burn 500 calories, CC would first subtract the 80 calories I would have expended just for being alive and added the 500 in, so my day's estimate would actually only increase by 420. Make more sense?

Oooh! Ok! XD

I'm slow. I'm sorry. Haha. Yeah - thanks for telling me that though. =D

That helped a lot.

Original Post by lafoutloud01:

Ok, I don't think I did a good job explaining. According to CC, just being a lightly active person, it is estimating that you're burning about 80 calories an hour. If I were to work out for an hour and burn 500 calories, CC would first subtract the 80 calories I would have expended just for being alive and added the 500 in, so my day's estimate would actually only increase by 420. Make more sense?

i dont get it. so you say u work out for 500 calories but cc gives u 80 calories for basic needs so really u only worked out for 420 calories. last night i ran out of calories so in desperation i went on my treadmill and burned 65 calories. if i take off my 80 calories then it equals -15. so really i would have gained. im really confused!!!!

how much time did it take you to burn those 65 calories? I'm sure not an hour. If it took you 10 minutes to burn 65 calories it would only take off the amount for 10 minutes of "being alive" so it would probably increase your burn count by a little less than 65.

edit: my name is Lea too :)

oh yeahh how dumb am i!!! it took me 10mins. so id only take off like 15 calories really!!!

ahhh my name is pronounced like 'lea - ah' so its kinda different. but il add u as a buddy anyway i havent got many!!!

:)