ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) –Losing weight is one of the top ten New Year’s resolutions made every year, but it can be difficult. Here are some ways you can achieve that goal and keep your resolution alive to burn calories.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. Americans will consume over 3,000 a day, but they only burn just over 2,700. So how do we burn more?
The first step is timing. A study from England found that working out before breakfast burned nearly 500 more calories than skipping the first meal of the day. It also broke down more fat and kept insulin levels up. But you don’t always have to break a sweat to burn the bulge. Watching a 90-minute scary movie can burn over one hundred.
Looking for more movement? Knockout a few chores and burn 200 while doing it. Wiping counters, dusting floorboards, and vacuuming burns four calories per minute, and you don’t have to do it alone. “If I can get a husband and wife to diet together, it almost always works,” said Marc Leavey, MD, a Primary Care Physician at Mercy Hospital. Finally, don’t forget to rest. Just sleeping for eight hours will help you get rid of 500 calories.
To know just how many calories you burn a day, you need to know your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, which is the total number of calories that your body needs to perform basic, life-sustaining functions.
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http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2040218,00.html
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/how-many-calories-do-i-burn-a-day#tips
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(15)00462-3.pdf
https://www.buzzfeed.com/fitbituk/11-things-you-didnt-realise-burn-calories
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https://www.verywellfit.com/what-is-bmr-or-basal-metabolic-rate-3495380
Contributor(s) to this news report include: Keon Broadnax, Writer and Robert Walko, Videographer and Editor.
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