Unusual Ways To Burn Calories You Haven't Thought of
#15 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.
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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.
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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.
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Skip Stairs
Don't walk stairs step by step. Instead, skip steps. This will work your leg muscles and burn more calories.
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Eat While Standing
According to the Mayo Clinic, eating while standing burns more calories. Plus, it keeps your body stretched.
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Laugh
Laughing for 15 minutes straight burns 50 calories, or 5 pounds per year. So turn to Comedy Central and get to chuckling!
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Rearrange Furniture
Want to knock out 266 calories? Spend 30 minutes rearranging the furniture in your home.
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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.
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Put On Lip Gloss
Here's a shocker. For every 765 times that you put on lip gloss, you burn 100 calories!
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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.
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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.
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Hair-Drying Blowout
Spend 30 minutes carefully drying your hair after a shower. It'll burn a whopping 100 calories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
