A NEAT way to increase your metabolism.

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  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    lol *kitten*
  • saraphim41
    saraphim41 Posts: 205 Member
    I have a friend who never seems to sit still....fidget.
  • LMPMOM4
    LMPMOM4 Posts: 75
    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
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    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
    sbrunskill Posts: 6
    Maybe a sillly question but, How do you keep track of the number of calories you are burning through neat?
  • aakaakaak
    aakaakaak Posts: 1,240 Member
    lol *kitten*

    I'm not playing with myself! Honest! I'm exercising!
  • capnwo85
    capnwo85 Posts: 1,103 Member
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  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    I had to google *kitten*.
  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    BUMP
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    Great advice that does work. Instead of putting stuff on your stairs to take up later...do separate trips :smile:
  • ChitownFoodie
    ChitownFoodie Posts: 1,562 Member
    Love this!
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    LET US ALL *kitten* TO INCREASE OUR METABOLISMS!!!!!

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  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    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
    Silverkittycat Posts: 1,997 Member
    Neato!
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    :) That's why I'm taking the stairs at school now
  • secretlobster
    secretlobster Posts: 3,566 Member
    Moving around frequently at a slow pace is how human beings are meant to live
  • YoshiZelda
    YoshiZelda Posts: 340 Member
    I lol'd at *kitten*.
  • samlankford
    samlankford Posts: 334
    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
    californiagirl2012 Posts: 2,625 Member
    Yep. I LOVE this. Just like weight loss; Eat less, Move More. end of story. It works.
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    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
    FitForLife81 Posts: 372 Member
    Yup Yup!!! I am always moving and always eating!!! ;)
  • RickBriggs
    RickBriggs Posts: 44
    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
    55jackie Posts: 7
    If you have a mobility problem,you couldtry chair exercises :)
  • islandnutshel
    islandnutshel Posts: 1,143 Member
    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
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
    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
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    Been furiously spinning the scroll wheel for the last hour!
  • semhe
    semhe Posts: 81 Member
    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
    JPKemp Posts: 25
    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
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    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
    AJuff Posts: 12 Member
    WOW! You've made me get up and clean a rom in my house:)

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