Dance While You Clean to Lose Weight

Looking to shed a few pounds before summer can be simple if you add a little bounce to your step while doing your daily housework. It's a common fact that everything we do burns calories so if we step it up a bit we can double these burned calories while adding some fun to tedious household chores.

A calorie table at dietbites states that the average person weighing 150lbs can burn 86 calories when dancing for only 15 minutes. Adding those calories to the ones you would burn during light cleaning for an hour you have the possibility of burning 514 calories or more depending on how vigorous you wish to dance while cleaning.

You will need to monitor how many calories you take in on a daily basis to ensure you are burning enough. The more one weights the more calories they will burn during household chores or exercise. Using a calorie burning calculator will help you easily achieve the goal of burning more calories then consuming.

The more vigorous cleaning task that is accomplished the more calories burned. Home activities are a bonus in burned calories, combined with dancing you can achieve weight loss in a fun way with work you already do.

With spring cleaning around the corner you can get a jump start on your summer weight loss goals by eating right while providing yourself with the exercise you need to burn calories. If you combine these activities with snacking on negative calorie foods you will see a weight loss quicker than if you do live a sedimentary lifestyle.

Negative calorie foods are foods in which you consume that require your body to burn off more calories than the food source has to digest the food. To read more about negative calorie foods read the article titled 5 Top Negative Calorie Foods.

Source:

Harvard Health Publications: Calories Burned in 30 Minutes

Diet Bites: Calories Burned Dancing