Burn the Calories from Overindulging
December 31, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
If you’ve found yourself eating too much, you need to step up your workouts in order to burn the calories that you’ve taken in. Everyone has phases when they overeat, but instead of spending too much time on regret, spend time exercising more to make up for the chocolate cake and calorie-laden drinks. Once the calories have been consumed, the only step left is to burn the calories off.
Look at your calendar and fit in an extra 30 minutes of exercise for the next 2 weeks. That should be enough extra exercise to burn the calories from one or two days of falling off the healthy eating wagon. At the end of those 2 weeks, you will likely have lost some additional weight as well!
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Burn Calories by Hula Hooping!
December 30, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
If you’re looking for a fun, new way to burn calories, try to burn calories by hula hooping! The fun hoop of your childhood can put new life into your workouts and help you burn calories by having fun! You can pick up hula hoops at most mass merchandisers, and I’ve even seen them at the dollar store.
Hula hooping requires you to swivel your hips to keep the hoop spinning around your waist. It’s a great workout that burns calories and helps shape your waist and abdomen. It is a unique exercise that tones and strengthens your external and internal oblique abdominal muscles.
It may seem hard at first, but with practice, you’ll be swinging that hoop easily for 10-20 minutes as part of your workout. Burn calories by hula hooping and lose weight, too!
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Your Personal Calorie Burn Chart
December 29, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
It is helpful to have an idea of how many calories different activities burn. By making your personal calorie burn chart, you’ll be able to make better choices about activities and match them to your current needs.
A personal calorie burn chart will list activities that you like to do, currently do, and also perhaps that you would like to start doing. With just a little research, you can find a calorie burn chart online that will list hundreds of different activities. On your list, you should also include things like watching television and doing housework, if those are activities that fill your days.
By keeping your personal calorie burn chart handy, you can choose activities that will burn the most calories and help you meet your goals. If you have had an active day, you can also feel better about relaxing in front of the television, knowing you’ve already burned a thousand or more calories!
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Burn Calories, Lose Weight
December 26, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
To lose weight, you need to burn calories, lose weight. While it sounds simple, anyone who has tried to lose weight knows that there is nothing simple about it. Losing weight requires motivation, dedication and hard work.
When you burn calories, you will lose weight as long as you don’t eat more calories than you are burning. As you increase your exercise, you may find yourself wanting to eat more, but you need to be careful about eating more calories than you are burning. If you don’t burn calories, you won’t lose weight!
As a reminder, you could write the words “Burn Calories, Lose Weight” on a piece of paper and tape it to your refrigerator and your front door. It will help remind you before you eat anything, and will also give you a reminder to move more when you head out your door!
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2 Easy Ways to Burn Calories
December 25, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Everyone is looking for easy ways to burn calories, especially when they’ve recently over-indulged in treats and goodies. Often, if you take the time to change your mindset about burning calories, it suddenly easier. Here are a few more things to try and they are 2 easy ways to burn calories.
- Wear a pedometer. The reminder of how many steps you’ve taken will help push you to take even more during your day. Set a goal for yourself of walking 500 more steps than you did the day before, until you’re regularly walking 10,000 steps a day.
- Walk the escalator. When you can’t find a stairway, but need to move between floors, don’t passively stand on the escalator as it moves you to the next level — walk the steps instead.
The more you look for ways to burn calories, the more ways you’ll find!
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Calories to Burn in a Day
December 24, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you eat. Each pound of fat is equal to about 3500 calories, so if you want to lose 2 pounds in a week, the calories to burn in a day is about 1000 more than you eat. Finding ways to burn those calories can be a challenge, but if you reduce the amount of food you eat while increasing your exercise, you can lose weight.
When you’re figuring out how many calories to burn in a day, you should take into account the type of exercise you’re doing, the effort you’re putting forth, and the length of time you exercise. If you have a goal of 1000 extra calories a day to burn, you can make choices with that number in mind at all times.
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3 Ways to Burn Calories at Work
December 23, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
When you’re trying to lose weight, your efforts throughout your day have an effect on your overall success. While you’re at work, you may think that you can’t burn calories, but you can definitely burn calories at work. Here are 3 ideas to try out to help you burn calories at work:
- Print documents at the printer farthest from your desk to give you the opportunity to walk more during your work day.
- Use a small water cup. Continue drinking plenty of water throughout your day, but fill up a smaller water cup which requires you to burn calories at work because you’ll have to get up more often to fill up your water cup.
- Take a walk during your lunch break. Bring a healthy lunch, and take a short walk after eating during your lunch break to burn calories at work.
Your weight loss efforts will be successful if you build ways to burn calories into every part of your life.
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Try Swimming to Burn Calories
December 22, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Swimming to burn calories is an excellent way to help you lose weight. If you have access to an indoor pool, this is an exercise that you can do year-round. One of the advantages to swimming to burn calories is that you work your entire body and tone muscles throughout your body while burning calories.
Another advantage to swimming to burn calories is that swimming is gentle on your joints, so injuries are much less common than other forms of exercise. The buoyancy of water helps support your body and cushions your joints while you exercise.
Swimming to burn calories is a great tool to help speed up your weight loss. You will see success if you consistently add swimming to your exercise routine.
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What is the Best Exercise to Burn Calories?
December 19, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
The best exercise to burn calories quickly is aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise helps your body burn fat and calories quickly, so results can be seen. Any type of aerobic exercise is effective, but many experts believe that running is the best exercise to burn calories.
Aerobic exercise requires oxygen to be distributed throughout the body. It is also usually sustained effort, for a period of time, rather than short bursts of activity. Aerobic activity is the best exercise to burn calories because it strengthens the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
If you are not interested in running, but still want the best exercise to burn calories, you should try swimming, jumping rope, rollerblading or walking. Any of these aerobic exercises will help you burn calories.
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Do Fiber Calories Count?
December 18, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
You may wonder do fiber calories count in your weight loss efforts, and whether you should keep track of your fiber calories. An interesting thing to learn is that fiber calories are often not shown on nutrition labels of food items in the US. Fiber is not digested, and therefore the calories are not counted.
Nutrition labels do include the number of fiber grams in foodstuffs, but the calories related to the actual fiber is often subtracted from the total calorie count. Since the fiber passes through your body without being digested, it really can’t be counted.
It is important to eat a certain amount of fiber a day, so do count those fiber calories so you are sure that you are getting enough fiber. But, to answer the question “Do Fiber Calories Count?” the answer is not really!
