Most weight loss diets are based on the premise that you have to burn more calories than you take in. As well, most diets recommend that you change your lifestyle. Accordingly they recommend that you eat less, eat healthy and exercise. Here you can learn how to lose weight without dieting and exercise.
Exercise is believed to help you lose fat and weight and will get you into physical shape. In addition, exercise and staying in shape is believed to help prevent some serious diseases such as cancer, heart problems and others.
Many people cringe at the thought of exercise especially the rigorous ones, heavily promoted by some weight loss programs including the popular TV show, The Biggest Loser. Realistically, none of us have the luxury of time required for such exercise.
We are in luck, as the new evidence suggests that rigorous exercises, great if you want to build a lean muscle machine, are not necessary to achieve permanent weight loss. Research shows that moderate activity (not necessarily exercise in conventional sense) is sufficient to help you burn calories, lose weight and improve your health.
It is known that a 30 minute daily walk can help you reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and will help you lose weight. For many, especially the overweight and overworked Moms, a 30 minute walk daily is not possible. Most women, married and/or single mothers, work full time and, at the same time, take care of their families full time. They simply do not have time to go to the gym, to go for walks, or exercise somewhere outside of their home.
If you cannot spare time for activities outside of your home rest assured that there are plenty of fat burning activities you can engage in at home and use these activities to help you shed the pounds and improve your health. Just look around you! Many of our house related (sometimes called chores) activities are wonderful calorie and fat burners.
Research suggests that to maximize health benefits one should burn about 2000 calories per week through "activities. In one week you can easily burn 2500 or more calories doing "chores". Did you know that to lose one pound you only need to burn 3500 calories? Let me show you then how to lose weight without dieting and exercise.
If you eat normally to maintain your weight and you burn 10,500 calories per month doing your household chores you will lose 3 pounds. In 12 months that is equivalent to 36 pounds and you have not gone on a diet or set a foot in a gym. In addition your body will also be in a better shape and your health greatly improved!
Let’s examine our household activities for a calorie burning potential:
| Activity | Calories burnt per hour |
| cooking | 156 calories (no tasting) |
| vacuuming | 220 calories |
| making beds | 260 calories |
| washing dishes by hand | 160 calories |
| loading dishes into the dishwasher | 105 calories |
| scrubbing bathtub | 200 calories |
| mopping floors | 221 calories |
| general house cleaning | 208 calories |
| washing your car | 280 calories |
| cleaning windows | 208 calories |
The above table gives you just a simple guide to what some of the common hosehold activities may represent in the potential amount of calories burnt. Let’s do a little math.
Let’s say that per week you will spend the time allocated in the table below on a given household activity:
Number of Calories Burnt per Week/Year with Household Chores
| Activity | Hours per Week | Calories Burnt per Week |
| Cooking | 6 hours | 936 calories |
| Making beds | 1 hour | 260 calories |
| Washing dishes by hand (pots) | 1 hour | 160 calories |
| Loading the dishwasher (2x) | 1 hour | 210 calories |
| Vacuuming | 1 hour | 220 calories |
| General house cleaning | 2 hours | 416 calories |
| Cleaning baths (incl. tub, shower, sink) | 1 hour | 200 calories |
| Grand Total Per Week | 2402 calories | |
| Grand Total Per Year | 124, 904 calories |
That is a lot of calories per week and you have not done laundry yet, went food shopping, etc.! As you can see from the above sampler, you can accumulate a lot of burnt calories and have your house super clean at the same time. If you will consider the "chores" as part of your calorie burning (exercise) program you will not resent doing it as much. House cleaning will be a lot of fun for you (You may even decide to get rid of your cleaning lady and save a lot of money).
Per year you can roughly lose 36 pounds if you do not reduce your dietary food intake. You can lose lot more weight if you reduce the number of calories you eat simply by removing fried foods, by restricting the amount of sweets you eat, etc. For more information read lose weight tips…
Amazingly, after a few weeks when you will see that you lost a few pounds and when you realize that you feel much better you will find yourself looking forward to these activities and to having a showcase home! As well, knowing how to lose weight without dieting and exercise and knowing that you can actually do it will inspire you and your weight loss journey will be that much easier.
You may be interested to know that recently a new fat loss diet was released to the public. Their research showed that it was possible to lose up to 30 pounds of fat in 30 days. These results may not happen to everyone but if you are in need of losing a lot of fat (weight) over a shorter period of time, explore it. It may just be the right diet for you. Read more about it at Fat Loss Target.
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