Thursday 23 January 2014

Unusual Ways To Burn Calories

#1 Eat Popcorn

Eat plain popcorn without any salt or butter. Your teeth will have to work to crunch them up, which in turn will burn calories.

#2 Shake Your Legs

While you sit at your desk, shake your legs. It'll burn calories. After doing it for long enough, you may start not even noticing you're doing it.

#3 Skip Stairs

Don't walk stairs step by step. Instead, skip steps. This will work your leg muscles and burn more calories.

#4 Text Like Mad

Love to text? We dare you to do it for an hour straight. It'll burn 132 calories!

#5 Eat While Standing

According to the Mayo Clinic, eating while standing burns more calories. Plus, it keeps your body stretched.

#6 Laugh

Laughing for 15 minutes straight burns 50 calories, or 5 pounds per year. So turn to Comedy Central and get to chuckling!

#7 Rearrange Furniture

Want to knock out 266 calories? Spend 30 minutes rearranging the furniture in your home.

#8 Eat Spicy Food

Spicy food ups your metabolism. Especially useful is spicy food with chill pepper and mustard seeds. They contain capaicin, which is a calorie-burning compound.

#9 Put On Lip Gloss

Here's a shocker. For every 765 times that you put on lip gloss, you burn 100 calories!

#10 Take A Cold Shower

Take a cold shower. All the extra work required for your body to maintain its core temperature will cost you at least 100 calories.

#11 Massage Time

Give someone who is stressed out a 30-minute massage. It'll help you burn 145 calories, while relieving the person's stress.

#12 Hair-Drying Blowout

Spend 30 minutes carefully drying your hair after a shower. It'll burn a whopping 100 calories.

#13 Stand On Your Tippy Toes

Stand on your tippy-toes when cleaning yourself in the shower, brushing or teeth or whatnot. It'll put pressure on your body and thus burn calories. It'll also strengthen your calves.

#14 Sit On A Balance Ball

Sit on a balance ball when you work at your desk. The work required to maintain your balance will burn a bunch of calories.

#15 Grocery Shopping

The next time you go grocery shopping, challenge yourself to complete it as fast as possible. Walk quickly down the aisles and carry around a basket instead of pushing a shopping cart.

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