Shopping calories :)

meeperoon

Found this on a website, I love it!
 

Shopping can burn some extra calories

Shop 'til you drop -- or so the saying goes. But, think not what shopping you must do, but what shopping can do for you. Think about weight control! Yes, active shopping can burn up plenty of calories.

Question: How many calories are expended during shopping?

Answer: The amount of calories you burn while during shopping depends on your body weight and the amount of time spent standing, walking and sitting. In addition, carrying heavy packages can increase calorie expenditure. It all adds up to burning a lot more calories than you would by lounging on the couch. Here are the numbers:

 WEIGHT                  APPROX CALORIES
 IN POUNDS             BURNED PER HOUR
Lounging on the couch
       100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
       200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
       300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Standing  in line
       100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
       200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
       300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Walking slowly (2 mph)
       100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
       200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
       300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

As you can see, just standing up burns about twice the calories expended when lying on the couch. Walking slowly adds a bit more to the calories burned.
Q: About how many calories does a person expend for a three-hour shopping trip?

A: During three hours of shopping in a large shopping mall, an easygoing shopper may spend about half of their time walking slowly.

That adds up to about three miles of walking. The other half of the time is spent standing and looking at merchandise or standing in line to make purchases.

Using our estimates above, this adds up to almost 400 calories for the 100-pounder, 750 calories for the 200-pounder, and 1,100 calories for the 300-pound person. Our shoppers burned more than twice the calories that they would have lying on the couch.

A more competitive "super-shopper" may walk up to 5 mall-miles in a three-hour shopping spree. Along with lots of fidgeting, reaching for merchandise, and waving at friends, calorie burning can top 500 calories for our 100 pound person and up to 1,000 calories or more for the more substantial 200- to 300-pound shoppers. This level of shopping should not be attempted without proper training, or you may find yourself "hitting the mall."

Alan Titchenal, Ph.D., C.N.S. and Joannie Dobbs, Ph.D., C.N.S.
are nutritionists in the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences,
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, UH-Manoa.
Dr. Dobbs also works with the University Health Service
© 2006 Honolulu Star-Bulletin -- http://starbulletin.com
http://www.nutritionatc.hawaii.edu/HO/2006/356.htm
NutritionATC
Human Nutrition, Food & Animal Sciences · University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
1955 East-West Road · Honolulu, HI 96822
Page was last updated on: Monday, August 8, 2011

Shop till you drop those pounds!

swaymyway

You burn calories doing anything - that's why we are all encouraged to lead an active lifestyle, not just by working out. but by not sitting on our behinds all day long

oneoddsock

I burnt over five hundred calories yesterday from walking into the city centre, wandering around the shops for about 90 minutes, and then walking home - up a big hill! It made me happy indeed. I didn't really buy anything so didn't have the weight to carry, but it made me feel good when I entered it!

trud72

if you seriously add those sort of cals down along with cleaning cals then you are not going to loose weight you need to acually do a "proper" exersice to burn it!

trud72

You burn calories doing anything - that's why we are all encouraged to lead an active lifestyle, not just by working out. but by not sitting on our behinds all day long

Well done on this quote great thinking!! :flowerforyou: thats the difference between people looseing weight and people wanting to loose weight!

meeperoon

I do, I do the 30 day shred but every little helps and it was just a bit of light hearted posting. Any exercise is good but doesn't mean you can't have fun with it too!