Take the NEAT Challenge by SARAHDUDEK80 from Dec. 2016 which concentrates on non-exercise exercise. There is one other factor that we often forget about. Non-exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy you expend from everything that is not sleeping, eating, or exercise. NEAT is all of the tiny little actions you do during the day that add up in caloric burn.

"As a health coach I often hear that people don’t have enough time to exercise. It can be difficult to find the time to prepare healthy meals. These are both understandable and they are great reasons to meet with a health coach to find solutions to help you carve out time for exercise and meal planning. Yet, if you are someone who is pressed for time, NEAT is where you can make giant leaps in your healthy living process."

Your daily calorie burn, or TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) is composed of your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate, the amount you'd burn in a coma) + NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, your job and chores and such) + TEF (Thermic Effect of Food, calories burned processing food eaten) + EAT (Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, your separately- accounted intentional exercise).

For an average person, the biggies are BMR, NEAT, and EAT, usually (not always) in that order from biggest to smallest. We can't do much to change BMR intentionally in the short run, and most people here are already taking steps (heh) to increase EAT, as they can fit it in.

But how much are we all thinking about and effectively increasing NEAT? It can be an immediate improvement, and for some a surprisingly big one, allowing us to either lose faster, or eat more, depending on our personal healthy goals. (The only downside is that new NEAT calories are hard to estimate, but we'll see them reflected in our weight loss rate.)

Some of the successful MFP weight losers/maintainers here have increased TDEE by a reported hundreds of calories daily by increasing NEAT.

Lot of great ideas for improving NEAT in both web pages, (some of these don't currently apply) including:
- Instead of searching for a parking spot closest to the store, grab one a few aisles back. You will save time by parking sooner, and you will get a few more steps in.
- Take stairs more often instead of elevators.
- tand up every time you talk on the phone. Pace, walk around your house, and march in place.
- Be inefficient in the grocery store, doubling back and forth in the aisles.
- etc.

The list is endless and the benefits are HUGE!