I burn calories at work?? :o

[StilettoReject]

I was feeling a little low because now that I've actually landed a job, I don't have as much time as I'd like to exercise. But then I got to thinking...:

I walk non-stop at work. It's a moderate pace, but I'm still on my feet and I'm still moving. Since I also deal with hand bags and stock, I do a lot of stretching and lifting as well.

I went to this site and calculated how many calories I burn during my more regular shift, 5-9:45pm. In just 4.75 hours, I burn about 580 calories. So, on the days I work 9-5 shifts, I burn about 1160 calories.

That makes me feel a WHOLE lot better! I understand that I still need to vary my exercise and do more than just what I do at TJM. . . but still, it'll help me maintain my weight :]

How many calories do you burn at work // school?

 

[Divash]

Funny you should mention. Weight Watchers has this cool little pedometer that measures how far you walk, how many steps you take, and how many Points you're burning throughout your day. Just set it to All Day mode rather than Exercise mode, and it'll tell you.

By the way, nobody burns 580 calories for 4.5 minutes. Do you mean 4.5 hours?  

[oba bear]

For mine it said 1600 calories. I mostly sit or stand and paint since I'm working in a gallery. Though for the next couple days we're moving and packing things up for a new location. O:  

[StilettoReject]

Divash

Funny you should mention. Weight Watchers has this cool little pedometer that measures how far you walk, how many steps you take, and how many Points you're burning throughout your day. Just set it to All Day mode rather than Exercise mode, and it'll tell you.

By the way, nobody burns 580 calories for 4.5 minutes. Do you mean 4.5 hours?

I had a pedometer . . . but it broke within 3 hours of my buying it :[ It did all that stuff, but the little spring that clicks as you step got bumped out of place real quick and now the thing's all messed up and there's no safe way to get in it and put it back together because it's glued, not screwed, together u_u;; It was only $4, though . . . I'll get a better one, next time x3

And yes! I did mean 4.5 hours O-o I didn't even catch that, I'll fix that now x3

 

[StilettoReject]

oba bear

For mine it said 1600 calories. I mostly sit or stand and paint since I'm working in a gallery. Though for the next couple days we're moving and packing things up for a new location. O:

I guess we should all be surprised just how many calories we burn during daily activities x3 I knew I was burning some calories just by standing forever as I worked, but I had no idea it was that much :]

 

[__penguin__]

I have a job for the summer at the pool (locker attendant 3nodding ) and most of the job is just sitting around... but sweeping the pool with the big broom (not the regular house sweeping broom) and trying to get the leaves up is a pretty good arm workout. xd But yeah. Other than that, I pretty much sit around for 4-5 hours, only getting up when people need to check their bags in (which is pretty often, but still). whee  

[StilettoReject]

Well, you burn calories when you sweat :] And, during your breaks, can't you swim? :3

 

[BlinkyTheRed]

I have a desk job, so I actually don't get much exercise at work.

Though I do occasionally have to escort people aroung the hospital, and deliver urine samples upstairs (hooray, pee pee!)

XD; and when I get home, I work on a comic.. which is also not physically strenuous, but whatever.

That's why I go to the gym for an hour every day. XD  

[__penguin__]

Frau Svenja von Wolfsberg

Well, you burn calories when you sweat :] And, during your breaks, can't you swim? :3

No, then I'd have to dry off again. domokun But I'm also on the swim team and synchro team there, so it's all good. 3nodding  

[Jen_wow]

i just did it for typing and it just made me happy im on gaia typing about5-6 hours a day because my mom doesnt do anything and i type alot and im burning calories

mrgreen now im smiling i thought i was staying home doing nonthing and while i type i tap my feet one at a time so that might help  

[Kiwi Girl]

I work retail, so I never sit during my working hours and I'm constantly going back and forth through the store to help people. It calculated that I burn about 2,700 calories from a 6 and a half hour shift. O_O! Perhaps that's wrong though since it seems like way too much. o_O; Either way, it makes me happy. xD  

[Divash]

Me, I'm homemaker. Some days I get a pretty good bit of activity -- scrubbing, cleaning, schlepping laundry up and down 11 flights of stairs, walking to and from the store because I have no car. Other days, I find that all my work is done within an hour or less, and I sit at the computer. On sitting-down days, I cut down my daily points by two, and on move-around days, I take the full amount. (Points, that is, are Weight Watchers' way of counting calories, fat, and fiber ratios in the daily diet.)