I did pretty well and burned quite a few calories today

Well, I finally did some exercise.  Taking care of dogs would qualify as exercise, right?  How about doing yard work?  Cleaning a house?  Yes, I would think so.  It is too bad that I didn't take the time to determine how many calories I have burned.  However, I went to the healthstatus website and used its calorie burner.  Needless to say, according to them I burned a total of 1500 calories, which is quite a surprise.  I wasn't sure that with my sedentary lifestyle, I would have burned even 5 calories, much less 1500 calories.  For someone with a sedentary lifestyle such as mine, that is like a great start.