Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Unusual ways to burn calories

i. EAT POPCORN: Eat plain popcorn without any salt or butter. Your teeth will have to work to crunch them up, which in turn will burn calories.
ii. SHAKE YOUR LEGS: While you sit at your desk, shake your legs. It'll burn calories. After doing it for long enough, you may start not even noticing you're doing it.
iii. SKIP STAIRS: Don't walk stairs step by step. Instead, skip steps. This will work your leg muscles and burn more calories.
iv. TEXT LIKE MAD: Love to text? I dare you to do it for an hour straight. It'll burn 132 calories!
v. EAT WHILE STANDING: According to the Mayo Clinic, eating while standing burns more calories. Plus, it keeps your body stretched.
vi. LAUGH: Laughing for 15 minutes straight burns 50 calories, or 5 pounds per year. So turn to Comedy Central and get to chuckling!
vii. REARRANGE FURNITURES: Want to knock out 266 calories? Spend 30 minutes rearranging the furniture in your home.
viii. EAT SPICY FOOD: Spicy food ups your metabolism. Especially useful is spicy food with chill pepper and mustard seeds. They contain capaicin, which is a calorie-burning compound.
ix. PUT ON LIP GLOSS: Here's a shocker. For every 765 times that you put on lip gloss, you burn 100 calories!
x. TAKE A COLD SHOWER: Take a cold shower. All the extra work required for your body to maintain its core temperature will cost you at least 100 calories.
xi. MASSAGE TIME: Give someone who is stressed out a 30 minute massage. It will help you burn 145 calories while relieving the person's stress.
xii. HAIR-DRYING BLOWOUT: Spend 30 minutes carefully drying your hair after shower. It will burn a whopping 100 calories.
xiii. STAND ON YOUR TIPPY TOES: Stand on your tippy-toes when cleaning yourself in the shower,brushing or teeth or whatnot. It will put pressure on your body and thus burn calories. It also strengthen your calves.
xiv. SIT ON A BALANCE BALL: Sit on a balance ball when you work at your desk. The work required to maintain your balance will burn a bunch of calories.
xv. GROCERY SHOPPING: The next time you go grocery shopping, challenge yourself to complete it as fast as possible. Walk quickly down the aisles and carry around a basket instead of pushing a shopping cart around.

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