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New articles are popping up on a regular basis emphasizing better ways of burning additional calories throughout the day. Many wonder exactly how this occurs. It's simple, if you stop and think about it. It's all the little things you do throughout the day that add up to what you will end up burning off at the end of the day. It's how much you move.
It can boil down to common sense. Park farther away from places you shop. Take the stairs instead of escalators and elevators. Make many trips upstairs in your own home when you need a particular item. Get up to get the remote instead of asking someone to pass it to you. I've been guilty of that one but not anymore. Those are my calories to burn off; I'm not going to give them to someone else to burn off! They're too valuable!
It's funny but I don't want to cheat myself anymore and that's exactly what I was doing. I get up to get things more often. I look at it like I am burning additional calories that I would have not burned. Sounds silly but it's not.
I recently read that people who move more in general can burn up to 300 more calories in an average day. That's a lot of calories! You all know those type people, you may be one, the type that can't sit still, well they're burning calories all while we're sitting back trying to figure them out.
I guess I always knew that even the most simplest of tasks that we do on a daily, weekly or monthly basis all add up to a substantial amount of calories being burned. Wow, that's a biggie, right?
Think about that and start making even more of an effort in burning extra calories throughout the day. What the heck, you'll not only burn extra calories, you'll have an extremely productive day in getting things accomplished!
Have a wonderful day!
3 comments:
I had a packet of grits and a half of a whole wheat English Muffin with 1 teaspoon of Smucker's All Natural Peanut Butter, a half a sliced banana and sprinkled with honey on top. I had a teaspoon of whipped butter I added to the grits.
For lunch I had a half of whole wheat tuna fish sandwich with 1 cup of broccoli/cauliflower with 1 T of Ken's Lite Walnut Raspberry. I had 1 cup of my homemade vegetable soup.
I am getting ready to do about 20 minutes of an Exercise TV Pilates routine for a variation. I will walk/jog later this evening for 30 minutes.
I agree with what you are saying. i think it is very easy to make an excuse for not taking care of yourself. For example my new puppy Ellie has been consuming all of my energy the last two weeks. It would be very easy for me to make excuses for not making it to the gym. I am having to force myself but it feels good after!
Isn't that the truth. You are so right Leslie. We can make excuses for anything in life and boy did I have loads of them when I turned to eating based on any given particular emotion I was feeling at the time.
Let me see. I ate when I was stressed because I guess it gave me something to do and distracted me from what was truly bothering me at the moment.
I'm going to blog on this one. Great point Leslie! Excuses! Excuses! We can load ourselves up on Excuses!
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