Fun Fact Friday!

Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories. Personally I wouldn’t recommend it, because it might hurt and if anyone catches you, they may think you’re a little bonkers!

Alternative ways to burn 150 calories per hour

  1. You could walk your dog for 45 minutes, which also burns 150 calories, and is much less painful.
  2. Singing in the shower can burn and extra 10-20 calories per song, depending on the volume and pitch of your voice.
  3. Laughing for 10 minutes can make you burn between 20 and 40 calories.
  4. On average, brushing your teeth for three minutes will burn 10 calories.
  5. Pushing the shopping trolley up the aisles for half an hour will burn over 100 calories, and this number increases the more you put in your trolley.
  6. One hour spent sitting in front of the TV burns around 65 calories.
  7. Dancing on a Dance Mat for 10 minutes will burn 50-60 calories.
  8. Hugging for one hour can burn 70 calories.
  9. A one minute kiss can burn between 2 and 4 calories, depending on how intimate it is.
  10. A person will burn 7% more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to a pavement.
  11. You burn more calories than you consumer when you eat celery.
  12. You burn more calories sitting in the cold, than heat.
  13. Chewing gum burns 11 calories per hour.
  14. You can burn up to 350 more calories per day if you fidget, rather than someone who remains stationary.
  15. Missing a night of sleep causes the body to burn about an extra 161 of calories.
  16. Constant texting can burn 40 calories per hour. 
So, how do you stay slim?

Try all these suggestions at one :-))

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