Lose Weight Doing Housework: Top 100 Weight Loss Tips #77
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The Top 100 Weight Loss Tips marches determinedly onwards with another article, which is number 77 in this growing series. In this post, I’m going to be very unpopular indeed. But its all for a good cause, which is to help you to lose weight, of course!
You may or may not like to hear this, but if you can learn to love doing the housework, or at least the parts of it that involve moving your body, you can easily make it a part of your own personal weight loss program!
How to Lose Weight Doing Housework!
You may or may not believe it, but that despised chore called housework can become your best friend in your battle with your waistline!
That’s right, housework is like any other form of exercise in that it makes your body burn calories. The more you do and the more labour intensive it is and the longer you do it for, the more calories you will burn! So next time you’re sweeping out the kitchen or laundry room put your full attention onto imagining it as a work out for your body. You can put on some motivational music to get you in the mood and then you can move your body to the rhythm of that music while you make a point of deliberately making each broom stroke into another calorie consumed!
It doesn’t stop there! Get out that vacuum cleaner and be purposeful about vacuuming up the pet hair and other debris from the carpets and rugs. More calories disappear with every swish of the cleaner’s head! Got to mop? Then put some real effort into really wringing the life out of that mop head and watch your spare calories drain into the bucket!
You know I’m going to say this, and you may not agree right now, but it can actually be fun! Use your imagination to visualize the calories being used up with each motion you make and make up some fun ways to do the visualizations. A cleaning cloth, some window cleaner and you swiping away at the grime can become an aerobic arm and torso exercise as you swing your hips in time with the music as your body arches and twists with each swirl of the cloth in your hand!
Ok, it might sound pretty stupid and for heaven’s sake don’t let your neighbours catch you doing it or they’ll thing you’ve gone crazy! But losing weight is all about using whatever tricks and techniques you can pull out of the hat to make it work.
If housework is something you hate doing, turn it around and make it into something that is helping you to lose weight! You’ll surprise yourself at how creative you can become in making a chore into a free workout that kills two birds with one stone!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 76 follows in the next post!
