Comment by taeric - Hacker Neue

taeric Oct 23, 2025 parent

Is 500 calories of movement a lot? Googling says that is running for about 45 minutes? Or walking for 90 minutes. Doing housework would only need about 2 hours to hit that.

pianom4n Oct 23, 2025

That's running 5 miles a day. Everyday. That takes months of training for an already fit young person to build up to.

90 minutes of extra walking is a lot of time to offset a snack that could be eaten in 1 minute.

taeric OP Oct 23, 2025

That is just the run, though? My point in mentioning the other things is that it isn't that much, all told.

I also 100% think that your offset point is a big part of it. 90 minutes walking the dog outside is doubly beneficial because you are not snacking during the time.

bryanlarsen Oct 23, 2025

500 calories excess is significant. Burning 500 calories in 2 hours doing housework is only an excess of ~300 calories, since you'd burn 100 calories an hour just sitting.

taeric OP Oct 23, 2025

I only mentioned the housework because it was listed on the google result. And I'm fairly confident most of us have far more than 2 hours of house work that needs to be done.

Synaesthesia Oct 23, 2025

To be honest I just weighed myself and I have lost weight.

I think it's a fair amount. I try hit 10000 steps a day, go to the gym, do occasional runs.

taeric OP Oct 23, 2025

If you are getting 10k steps a day in, I'm assuming that is already 3-400 calories right there?

I should be clear. It isn't that I don't think 500 is enough to make a difference. I legit didn't know if it was a lot of extra calories to burn.

I've been walking my kids from the bus stop lately, and my exercise thing is convinced I'm getting about 600 calories in from that. (To be clear, I run to the bus stop, and then walk them back. Two trips, due to different drop off times.) I assumed I also need to do other work on top of that.

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