We spend a lot of time figuring out how to do our work more efficiently.\u00a0 That\u2019s fine — unless we are doing it so we have more time to spend on the couch in front of the TV.\u00a0 Did you know that you burn more calories doing nothing at all than you spend watching TV?\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why, unless the television lulls your metabolism as well as your brain into inactivity.<\/p>\n
Anyway, if you are wanting to work more activity into your life, you might try to do the opposite.\u00a0 Do things the hard way.\u00a0 That comes easy for me!\u00a0 My motto is \u201cIf there are two ways to do it, do it the hard way first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seriously, you can get an extra edge of calorie burn by making things just a bit less convenient.\u00a0 Put things you use a lot on a higher shelf so you have to reach more. The stretching will be good for your muscles.\u00a0 Move the trash can so you have to take extra steps to reach it.\u00a0 Put things away one at a time instead of gathering up an armful to dispose of at once.\u00a0 Look at all the little jobs you do every day.\u00a0 How can you make them into calorie burners?\u00a0 If you do them quickly instead of at a leisurely pace they won\u2019t take much more time out of your day and you can wind up with more steps on your pedometer and fewer calories stashed around your hips.<\/p>\n
Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n
Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We spend a lot of time figuring out how to do our work more efficiently.\u00a0 That\u2019s fine — unless we are doing it so we have more time to spend on the couch in front of the TV.\u00a0 Did you know that you burn more calories doing nothing at all than you spend watching TV?\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,539,135],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-2","tag-exercise","tag-hard-way","tag-pedometer"],"yoast_head":"\n