Things that should earn you extra calories - but don't...

Annerea
Annerea Posts: 104
edited September 23 in Health and Weight Loss
1. Walking fast in heels when you're late for a meeting. Heels in general should definitely count for more.
2. Turning down the offer of a nice lunch out at a restaurant with colleagues, to sit in the office and eat your low calorie soup.
3. Ignoring the chocolate biscuits in the office kitchen.
4. Ignoring the case of wine in the corner of the office, including one bottle of my absolute favourite.

Lets hope the weigh-in tomorrow makes it all worth it!!

Anyone have any other suggestions for activities that should count for calories??
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  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    Only eating one (very small) chocolate and leaving the rest for another day/s.
    It still has 40 calories!
  • Bub3les0
    Bub3les0 Posts: 47
    putting kids in snowpants, hats , hoods, mittens, boots ans running them to the school bus before it leaves should count :)
  • Sasssy69
    Sasssy69 Posts: 547 Member
    Dealing with obnoxious, rude people or teenagers all day.

    An emotionally stressful day.

    Keeping your patience, when most people would explode.

    Being emotionally exhausted, but still going through the routine.

    Those are just a few of mine.
  • LauraMcGanity
    LauraMcGanity Posts: 112
    Standing up on the bus all the way to work because there's no spare seats.

    Telling my co-worker that the cookies she's baked look lovely but I have a wheat intolerance. (such a lie:embarassed: )

    Having to go to the ladies room 2 floor up - using the stairs - because the one on our floor is being cleaned.

    Throwing the children's leftover chips in the compost bin instead of eating them.
  • ashlee954
    ashlee954 Posts: 1,112 Member
    You have wine at your office? No fair! :)
  • dave4d
    dave4d Posts: 1,155 Member
    Waking up at 3:30 to go to work.
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    Trying on at least 5 outfits only to go back to the first one.
  • Annerea
    Annerea Posts: 104
    Ashlee - it was a present from a client. I'm trying to resist the temptation of bringing it home and guzzling it...
  • babyg1rl82
    babyg1rl82 Posts: 6
    Oh I so agree!!! All those little things that should but don't...Like running around my house after the kids or carrying them around once their tired does that give me an extra calorie boost, course not.

    Not eating that apple crisp that my sister offered me the rest of in the movie theater the other day...

    Getting dunkin donuts for everyone else the other day but no Mocha Coolatta for me :(
  • amgant
    amgant Posts: 2
    How about putting your kids in snowsuits hats and gloves just for them to tell you that they have to pee.
  • OperaticAnnihilator
    OperaticAnnihilator Posts: 83
    Singing an intense musical peice for example bethoveens 9th symphony in german.
    that was hell especially being a 1st soprano and have to hit a high B
  • ang_lovinlife
    ang_lovinlife Posts: 5 Member
    I agree :) No fair about the wine in the office .. lol
  • hrgarry
    hrgarry Posts: 10
    All of those things DO count!!! You'll see the results and you'll be happy about it.
  • JoinerMaus
    JoinerMaus Posts: 44
    Changing Stinky Diapers on two kids who fight and wiggle.
  • LauraMcGanity
    LauraMcGanity Posts: 112
    How about putting your kids in snowsuits hats and gloves just for them to tell you that they have to pee.

    This takes me back to when my girls were toddlers!!! Aaaaaaaargh! I feel your pain.
  • fushion243
    fushion243 Posts: 29
    Checking MFP via mobile phone at a restuarant to try and determine what you can eat?
  • TheNewJessieMae
    TheNewJessieMae Posts: 767
    Checking MFP via mobile phone at a restuarant to try and determine what you can eat?

    LOVE IT
  • hummzz
    hummzz Posts: 385 Member
    I think that sex should have some calories burned as well. Especially if you're as big as me and my sweety!!!! I heard once that one sexual encounter can equal climbing 7 flights of stairs!
  • jenbusick
    jenbusick Posts: 528 Member
    Throwing the children's leftover chips in the compost bin instead of eating them.

    YESSSSS!!!
  • KayakDeb
    KayakDeb Posts: 19
    Doing ANYTHING outdoors in sub-zero temperatures!!
  • iamstaceywood
    iamstaceywood Posts: 383 Member
    spending four hours pouring over my food diary for the last few weeks trying to figure out where i am going wrong.
  • SoldierWife99
    SoldierWife99 Posts: 75
    ...Still hearing the cadence count from the work out video....4 hours later!:laugh:
  • dmb0174
    dmb0174 Posts: 31
    Staying up all night with not one but TWO sick kids!
  • lookinggreat
    lookinggreat Posts: 43
    Whipping the non-fat, no-sugar pudding cream for 2 minutes as recommended on the package. My right arm was hurting.
    That should earn you the right to a second half cup of pudding, right?
  • scagneti
    scagneti Posts: 707 Member
    Having to pee 60 times a day because of all the water you're drinking.

    Having Wii Zumba songs stuck in your head all day at work.

    Minimizing MFP dozens of times when coworkers walk by because you're addicted and have to check the message board at work!
  • ChubbieTubbie
    ChubbieTubbie Posts: 481 Member
    I think mood swings and hard days should count--I know when I am fed up and trying not to start yelling at people, my heart rate is definitely higher than normal so theoretically I should be burning calories!
  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    PMS.

    Putting on makeup and doing your hair every morning so you can look presentable at work.

    Dealing with *kitten* at work who don't want to put up with you because you are a female and work in a Man's World. (normally this doesn't get to me too much, but I am pmsing lol).
  • Annerea
    Annerea Posts: 104

    Minimizing MFP dozens of times when coworkers walk by because you're addicted and have to check the message board at work!

    LOL - I was doing this just before I came to your post!!!
  • Beth720
    Beth720 Posts: 661 Member
    Standing up on the bus all the way to work because there's no spare seats.

    On the plus side, you do get in a bit of a core workout keeping your balance by doing that. :)
  • Jacquelyn913
    Jacquelyn913 Posts: 300 Member
    Having to make two different dinners, one for the boyfriend and a healthier one for myself. Then resisting temptation to take a bite of his.
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