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Burning Calories
, 01 03rd, 2009
This also was on Burn Baby Burn! from yesterday burning calories. This was on Yahoo Shiine
Examples Always Prove the Point Better
Let’s take a look at an example. Using this calculator, a 30 year old woman, at 5’-6”, 150 pounds burns roughly 1476 total calories, if she were at rest all day long. Suppose on Christmas Eve she wakes up, and decides that she doesn’t want to work out. She spends her day doing light activity, getting herself ready, wrapping presents, watching some Christmas movies on TV, cooking, and baking. Then her family and friends arrive, and the rest of her night is spent socializing, eating, drinking and so on.
Her activity factor for the day would be around a 1.2, which would mean that her total burn for the whole day would be 1771 calories.
Now, let’s say she woke up and went to the gym for a 45 minute vigorous workout, did some stretching, got herself ready, ran some errands, came home to cook, but added in some jumping jacks, danced with the kids, and never really sat down until the company arrived. Her activity factor in this case would be around 1.725, which would make her total burn for the day approximately 2546 calories.
That is a difference of almost 800 calories! Try out this exercise for yourself using this formula. Take a few minutes and add up what you typically eat on Christmas or Christmas Eve…make sure to be honest….remember to include the wine too…and those cookies…the appetizers, all of it. Now do you see what a difference a little extra movement can make?
I hope this helps to give you the incentive to get out and move this holiday season. An exercise like this truly gives vacuuming or shoveling snow a whole new light, doesn’t it!
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