Ten easy ways to melt more calories during a day
If you would like to lose weight, of course, you need to eat well and work out. But do you know that your daily routines and activities could help you melt more calories during a day? It also could be useful when you are not in mood to go in for exercise. Do not consider it like alternative to workout. It is just little tricky daily extras to melt calories without breaking sweat for more active and healthy lifestyle.
1. Eat lightly and often. It keeps your hunger under control and prevent you from overeating.
2. Laugh. If you laugh for 10 to 15 minutes per day it burns up to 40 calories.
3. Do things around the house by hand: vacuum, cook diner, wash dishes, windows.
4. Use stairs instead of an escalator or an elevator.
5. Go out of your way. For example: take the long way to the grocery store.
6. Drink enough water. It keeps your metabolism high.
7. Eat breakfast and don't eat late at night.
8. Don't snack/eat in front of the TV. You can eat more than you expected.
9. Stand up! Don’t sit when you can be on your feet—you’ll burn about 40% more calories. Take a stand—when you’re on the phone, watching kids at the playground.
10. Chew sugarless gum. Research has found that the action of jaw muscles alone burns about 11 calories an hour.