Hello again, savvy savers! Today I am 31 years young, I am 5’6”, and weigh 198 lbs; I am down one pound since last week. I walk my dogs but beyond this am not terribly active. My lifestyle causes sedentary behaviors; I work-from-home, blog, run two internet businesses, and perform advocacy work online as well. I am an internet-based excuser! Today this changes! Spring has sprung, and so shall I! I have taken up yoga, and have started working out with a pedometer on as well!
For this weeks Battle-of-the-Bulge, Budget Style post, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite ways to exercise, and that is with basic, everyday housework! Consider the amount of time you spend each week completing the following, and you will see how much extra pounds you will be able to shed!
Here is a simple guide as to how many calories you can earn by completing each chose for 15 minutes:
- Carpet sweeping, sweeping floors: 39 calories
- Mopping: 43 calories
- Multiple household tasks all at once, light effort: 26 calories
- Dusting: 26 calories
- Washing dishes, While standing: 22 calories
- Vacuuming: 43 calories
- Butchering/Freezer Cooking Prep: 85 calories
- Cooking and Canning: 17 calories
- Serving food: 26 calories
- Feeding animals: 26 calories
- Putting away groceries: 26 calories
- Carrying groceries upstairs: 111 calories
- Food shopping: 22 calories
- Ironing: 22 calories
- Doing laundry: 17 calories
- Putting away clothes: 22 calories
- Making the bed: 17 calories
- Moving furniture: 85 calories
- Scrubbing floors: 48 calories
- Sweeping garage, sidewalk, and outside of house: 51 calories
- Watering plants: 26 calories
- Playing with children: 26 calories
- Carrying small children: 34 calories
- Elderly & Disabled Adult Care: 51 calories
- Playing with pets: 26 calories
- Bathing pets, while standing or kneeling: 43 calories
Here’s to better health,
