Let me share with you the following 12 simple ways to burn fat
faster."From Reader's Digest October 1997".
1. Bring on breakfast. Get your metabolism going early with a
morning meal, says endocrinolist C.Wayne Callaway.
2. Put some muscle into your stroll. To burn about three extra
calories a minute, hold one-pound wieghts and pump your arms as
you walk.
3. Adopt a dog. It's cheaper than hiring a personal trainer. When
spot wants to go out, you can,t argur. A solid 15 minute walk
burns about 60 calories.
4. Nosh around the clock. Having smaller, more frequent meals may
be less fattening than eating two or three large ones,as long as
you carefully monitor your total daily calorie intake. An added
bous: This will help keep your energy level steady throughout the
day.
5. Cut back on fat. Your body will burn fewer calories processing
fat than it will processing carbohydrates.
6. Stand and deliver the gossip. If you stand while you chew the
fat in the phone, you'll burn a few extra calories a minute.
7. Leave your desk. Find reasins to fire up your metaboism durning
the workday. Use a bathroon on another floor. Pick up lunch
instead of ordering in. walk over to a co-worker's desk rather tan
calling in the phone.
8. Get up and dance. Rocking to the music-any music that gets you
moving-burns about the same amount of calories as most aerobic
exercises do.
9. Plant sone flowers. If you don't cosider gardening a legitimate
fitness activity, think again. In just 40 minutes of degging,
weeding,raking and the like, you burn 200 calories.
10. Tear up those strvation diets. The body responds to the threat
of significant calorie deprivation by slowing metabolism to
conserve fuel. To lose weight and try to keep metabolism on an
even keel, the average man should avoid dipping below 1,600 to 2,00
calories a day, davises dietitian Kathleen Zelman. More active
people should stick to the higher end of that range.
11. Sit, don't louge. You burn about five percent more calories if
you read or watch TV in an upright rather than a reclining
position.
12. Got five minutes to kill? Do chair push-ups. stand behind a
sturdy chair, placing your hands on the back of it shoulder width
apart. slowly lower your chest to your hands, then press yourself
back up. (Make sure the chair won't slide out fron under you).