FACT Of The Day

Here is today’s FACT Of The Day:

Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.

In a society obsessed with losing weight, being skinny, and fad diets, it got me thinking if we have all been wasting our time at Weight Watchers and Slimming World, and squandering our time doing the Cabbage Soup diet, the 3 day diet, the Lemonade diet, the Baby-food diet, the No-Carb diet and all the other millions of diets I’m sure all of us have tried at some point.

What if the answer was much simpler and the way to lose calories was simply by fidgeting?

If you've tried every diet but to no avail, why not try some of the following much easier and much more fun ways to help you lose weight, and with none of the hard work and nasty tasting food substitutes.

• ·        Laugh for 10-15 minutes a day and burn up to 50 calories.
• ·        Shopping for 3 hours burns 641 calories.
• ·        Brushing your teeth burns 12 calories every 5 minutes.
• ·        Drink coffee, it increases the rate at which you burn calories.
• ·        Chewing gum burns calories.
• ·        Dance for 20 minutes and you can burn 100 calories.
• ·        Sleep well: a poor night’s sleep causes people to choose less-nutritious foods.
• ·        Relax. Stress causes the body to store more calories as fat.
• ·        Typing on your computer for 48 minutes burns 100 calories.
• ·        Watch less television. Adults who halve their television viewing time burn an extra 119 calories a day.
• ·        Re-arrange your room for 45 minutes burns 280 calories.
• ·        Sip iced water all day; it speeds up your metabolism and burns 100 calories.
• ·        Eat more curries: spicy food can temporarily increase your metabolism.
• ·        Eat salmon: people who eat salmon lose significantly more weight than people who eat beef.
• ·        Watching 2.5 hours of ‘Come Dine With Me’ burns 100 calories.
• ·        Play 13 hands of poker and burn 100 calories.
• ·        Sunbathing for 3 hours burns 210 calories.
• ·        Building sandcastles for 30 minutes burns 180 calories.
• ·        Play in the waves for 20 minutes and burn 160 calories.
• ·        Play a game of Frisbee with your friends for 30 minutes and you can burn up to 100 calories.
• ·        Reading in a hammock for 3 hours burns 220 calories.
• ·        Go on a date: you tend to order food with fewer calories when on dates.
• ·        Wear stilettos: it helps to tone your legs (maybe this is one just for the ladies…but then again maybe not).
• ·        Slow dancing for 7 songs burns 100 calories.
• ·        Showering a loved one with 9.240 kisses all over their body burns 100 calories.
• ·        Smooching for 10 minutes burns 25 calories.
• ·        Having sex burns 300 calories an hour.

Who knew burning calories could be so simple, and yet so enjoyable.

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