A NEAT way to increase your metabolism.

Lady_Bane

lol *kitten*

saraphim41

I have a friend who never seems to sit still....fidget.

LMPMOM4

I always used to think my activity level was sedentary because I'm an at home mommy. Then I got a BodyMedia Fit and realized I'm pretty darn active. I am always on my feet cooking, cleaning, shopping, playing with my kids at the park or the pool, and I walk my dogs every day and I ride bike towing kids in a trailer instead of driving everywhere. It adds up! And when you exercise on top of that it's a lot of extra energy expenditure a day.

Now if my metabolism would heal from all the low calories I've been eating over the years!

deksgrl

one dilema tho! (ohhh and here comes the negative bird with too much time on her hands!!) I am disabled, I can't walk far, nor stand for long either... any ideas for the waist upwards???

Shadow boxing. Alternating punches. Do it for 30 seconds and then increase the amount of time you do them. Then you can increase the burn by adding weights.

sbrunskill

Maybe a sillly question but, How do you keep track of the number of calories you are burning through neat?

aakaakaak

lol *kitten*

I'm not playing with myself! Honest! I'm exercising!

capnwo85

iAMsmiling

I had to google *kitten*.

donyellemoniquex3

BUMP

Fozzi43

Great advice that does work. Instead of putting stuff on your stairs to take up later...do separate trips

ChitownFoodie

Love this!

Bronx_Montgomery

LET US ALL *kitten* TO INCREASE OUR METABOLISMS!!!!!

SideSteel

Maybe a sillly question but, How do you keep track of the number of calories you are burning through neat?

In most circumstances I wouldn't bother.

Silverkittycat

Neato!

onyxgirl17

That's why I'm taking the stairs at school now

secretlobster

Moving around frequently at a slow pace is how human beings are meant to live

YoshiZelda

I lol'd at *kitten*.

samlankford

o my how DARE you post rocket science on here!! lol don't know about everyone else but i move around until 8pm then i get lazy foe 1 1/2 hr before bed... :yawn:

californiagirl2012

Yep. I LOVE this. Just like weight loss; Eat less, Move More. end of story. It works.

michellekicks

According to my fitbit, the difference between spending a day sitting around doing very little and a day I just do more housework, walking my kids to school, walking farther in the parking lot etc. can be 2-400 calories... that's the difference between losing and maintaining... or worse, maintaining and gaining weight. Gotta keep moving...

FitForLife81

Yup Yup!!! I am always moving and always eating!!!

RickBriggs

one dilema tho! (ohhh and here comes the negative bird with too much time on her hands!!) I am disabled, I can't walk far, nor stand for long either... any ideas for the waist upwards???

Become a twitcher! Get spastic with your fingers and a pencil or your toes and a pencil or wink a lot, etc. Truly, there was just a study out that showed that people that twitch are much leaner than people that don't.

55jackie

If you have a mobility problem,you couldtry chair exercises

islandnutshel

even fidgeting is good. For me wearing a fitbit shocked me into seeing how inactive I could be. Just adding those steps by parking a distance away and not moving your car around town with you on errands if possible. In the office I get up often to deliver messages, and I volenteer for all the banking, mail and errands and it can make a huge difference. I recommend pedometers for daily activity.

elenathegreat

or whether or not you should load your breakfast with cinnamon and hotsauce

You should load your breakfast with hotsauce though. Not for weight loss, just on principal.

As long as that hot sauce is Sriracha!

Oh beautiful, glowing SRIRACHA, how I love thee so...

iAMsmiling

Been furiously spinning the scroll wheel for the last hour!

semhe

You should load your breakfast with hotsauce though. Not for weight loss, just on principal.

hahahaha.... niiiccceeee... I just covered my salad in hot sauce... not for weight loss... for principal... and it was gooooooooddddd

JPKemp

In all seriousness, I move around when I’m home a lot. It’s hard during the day when you are glued to a desk with someone watching your every move to make sure you don’t leave your desk for more than a minute to use the restroom. Exercise balls? Not sure what kind of places you all work in but in a very conservative insurance office those are a big no no.

At home, I run around and play with my pets. I move around cleaning, doing laundry etc. There was an article in a recent issue of my ferret owners magazine that actually gave ideas for workouts you could do with your pets. My ferrets did not enjoy being used as light free weights though, so that didn’t work out. Haha.

Instead of an office chair, I have an erecise ball...it is amazing the difference it makes...

lizziebeth1028

Agree!!!! My walk to and from the train station for work equals 2 miles a day! I don't count it as my 'real workout'....but I know it's a nice little calorie burner!

AJuff

WOW! You've made me get up and clean a rom in my house:)