1. WALK! Park your car a few blocks apart from the place you are going to and take to brisk walk to your office, grocery store, or a shopping mall. Intend to walk at least 30 minutes every day. At work, use some time during your lunch break to take a refreshing walk in a nearby park. If the weather is cold, you still can walk in your favourite mall.
2. In the office, get out of your comfortable chair and go visit your colleagues from a different department instead of messaging or phoning them. If you need to go to a washroom, choose the one located on the top floor and WALK there.
3. Try to always take the stairs instead of an elevator.
4. While watching TV, do not use remote control. Instead, every time you need to switch channels, get up and do that manually.
5. At dinner, choose steak instead of pasta. The more you chew, the more calories you burn!
6. Several times during the day, drink natural coffee or green tea without sugar to boost metabolism.
7. Eating frequent small meals, especially if they are not loaded with sugar or white flour, is more stimulating for your metabolism than stuffing yourself with big meals two or three times a day.
8. Choosing spicy dishes is another way to burn more calories during the day.
9. Adopt a habit of moving your feet, stretching your legs, or squeezing a rubber ball while sitting. Can you believe that such simple movements can burn up to 500 calories a day?
10. In the winter, turn down the heat in your room, especially at night, and sleep under a lighter blanket. In the summer, turn on an air conditioning. A colder environment makes your body produce more heat and, therefore, facilitates the utilization of calories.
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I didnt know that spicy dishes help reduce calories.
Brisk walking is an effective means of burning calories.
Try working out even in the office. There are a lot of office exercises you can try. I do stretching even when Im sitting in from of my computer.
Number 10 is flat out wrong. In the summer, your body is constantly working to keep cool(increased blood flow = more vented heat). The hotter it is, the harder your body works. This applies whether you are resting or seriously working out. The cooler the environment, the less your body has to work to vent heat. Turning on the AC in summer makes you burn LESS calories. Unless you are at the point of shivering(which is the point when your body actually starts working hard to stay warm), your body is always working to vent heat, not retain it.