Spring Cleaning can Help with your Weight Loss Goals
It's Spring, the perfect time to attend to cleaning out the yard and house. It can be a chore during the process, but once we have our closets organized, the house cleaned, and flowers planted it feels wonderful! All of this work can also help you work towards your weight loss goals. Any extra movement burns more calories and burning more calories on a regular basis results in weight loss. It takes a 250 calorie daily deficit to lose half a pound per week. See how you can do some much needed Spring cleaning and burn some calories at the same time.
Keep in mind these numbers are just estimates. It truly depends on how much you weigh and the duration of the activity. For the following examples we will use a one hour duration.
Activity |
Estimated Calories Burned
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General Gardening (picking weeds, etc) |
350-400 |
Mowing lawn (push lawn mowers) |
350-400
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Planting trees and flowers |
350-400
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General housecleaning |
250-300
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Scrubbing Floors |
390-470
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Washing Windows |
320-375
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Dusting |
165-195
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This just goes to show that you don't have to diet or follow strict meal plans to win at weight loss. You can make small changes and in this case get your Spring cleaning done to make that calorie deficit and manage your weight without all the dieting hang-ups!
© 2007, Meri Raffetto
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