Old-fashion Exercise.
I had been working pretty hard the last few weeks and low and behold when I stepped on the scale the other day I was surprised to see I had lost a few pounds. I couldn’t think of anything different I had done, but was very happy to see those few pounds gone.
When I started to look at everything I had been doing, I realized that some good old-fashion chores contributed to those shed pounds. I started to think about my grandmothers who didn’t belong to gyms or have any organized exercise programs and they stayed fit. For the most part, it was more acceptable to carry a little extra padding 50 years ago and normal everyday life was the key to keeping them fit and trim.
After doing a bit of research, I found that some old fashion housework has been burning more calories for me in one day then I realized. I wish I could say that I have been staying away from all the yummy treats I have been baking, but that has not been the case. The truth is I have been giving myself a good workout by burning calories doing some extra housework.
I found that most of my everyday housework jobs are burning about 150 calories each:
- washing dishes – 30 minute
- washing windows – 60 minutes
- mopping floors – 35 minutes
- vacuuming – 35 minutes
- dusting – 35 minutes
- washing the car – 30 minutes
- cleaning bathroom – 30 minutes
- changing sheets – 30 minutes
- ironing – 60 minutes
- line drying clothes – 30 minutes
- sweeping floors – 30 minutes
- heavy cleaning – 30 minutes
- cooking/baking – 60 minutes
- painting – 30 minutes
- weeding garden – 30 minutes
- stacking wood – 30 minutes
- raking leaves – 30 minutes
- gardening – 30 minutes
- mowing lawn with push mower – 30 minutes
- barn chores – 30 minutes
- cleaning closets – 60 minutes
- moving furniture – 30 minutes
It was so neat to see that my everyday activity was helping me burn those extra calories. I know on the days I am cleaning out the chicken pen, moving hay or heavy garden days I am burning more, but I feel good that I am doing old-fashion housework to stay fit.
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You see all these years you could have been burning calories when you “dusted”. You knew I was going to comment on that.
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I knew you would say something about my dusting…and yes I still hate dusting even if I can burn calories doing so:)
see some things never change. I hear you are having a great time spinning your wool, glad it is going good.
Nice to know those every day chores have some added value 🙂
What a fun way to look at chores 🙂 More productive than running for a half hour (or at least that is my new excuse).
Running a half hour would be torture for me…I would much rather clean my house or clean the barn:)
With a two year old and a 9 month old, I haven’t been able to fit a regular exercise routine into my day yet . . . but I know I’m burning plenty of calories chasing them around and doing household chores!
I agree chasing kids around burns a lot of those extra calories.
I’ll look at my housework and chores differently now :-), still don’t like doing it though, but will work harder at it if I can burn calories. Thanks for linking up at Good Morning Mondays. Blessings
No wonder I feel so tired at the end of the day! 🙂
Calories burned – When you’re choosing your fat burning struggle plan, you often start with the very first inquiry being, “How many calories do I burn in a day today?