10 Ways You Burn Calories Without Even Knowing It

LFiestan

stumbled upon this fascinating info. Its mostly about doing regular chores and how much calories are burned, it is common sense that we are burning them but dont really know how much right? Im not saying that we should stop doing our regular cardio and strength trainings though.

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Heres what it says:

1.Just 30 minutes of prepping a meal can help you burn between 75 and 111 calories.

2. If you're pressing out your work shirts every morning, you can easily burn 76.5 calories with just a half hour of ironing.

3.Dusting certainly isn't everyone's favorite household chore, but it might help you to know that just a half hour of running that dust rag around the house will burn 80 calories.

4.For some people, doing the laundry isn't so much a hassle, but folding all of those clean clothes? Forget it! If you can motivate yourself to tackle the clean laundry basket for just 30 minutes, you'll burn an additional 72 calories. Happy folding!

5.Running the vacuum always gets your heart a-pumping, but did you know that just half an hour of running the vacuum will melt off 90 calories. If you have a whole house of carpet to tackle, you'll rack 'em up fast.

6.If you're using a push mower to mow the lawn outside your house, you're way ahead of your "lucky" neighbors with the mega riding lawn mower. You're burning 324 calories in just an hour, while they're barely clocking 30.

7.If you've been grumbling about doing the dishes by hand because your dishwasher is on the fritz, you might want to hold off getting it fixed. Tackling the plates and cups by hand for a half hour burns 160 calories!

8.Believe it or not, you're even burning calories while you're glued to the computer desk (as long as you're not chowing down on snacks while you're surfing!) A half hour spent at the computer chatting, sending e-mails, or writing will burn between 41 and 61 calories. If you have an office job where you're continuously typing, that means you can melt off 650-970 calories in a day. Just keep your fingers off the office doughnuts and the high-calorie coffees and sodas, or you'll be undoing all of the work your fingers have put in for you!

9. Burning calories while you're shopping for food? You bet. Just an hour of pushing that cart up and down the aisles will melt off 243 calories from your daily total. No wonder you're so hungry when you leave!

10.If you're clocking eight hours of sleep a night, you're getting more than cardiovascular and psychological benefits. Even while you're asleep, your body burns up to 360 calories in eight hours of solid shut eye. All the more reason to hit the hay early tonight!