Keep yourself moving and within one hour you can burn up to100 calories, Davis says. On a long phone call? Get up and pace around. Shake your leg and tap your foot while sitting at your desk. Studies show that three cups of green tea a day can burn anywhere from 78 to 106 calories, says Dr. These drinks stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, and stimulation leads to calorie burn, says Lisa Davis, Ph.D., vice president of research and development for Medifast. In addition to getting your fill of cold water, soothe yourself with a nice hot cup of coffee or green or black tea. Your body has to put in some effort to warm that water, which leads to more calories burned.
“Eight glasses of water, spaced well through the day, gives a metabolic boost that equals approximately 25 calories per glass,” Taylor says.
Instead, drink it fast and ice cold, says Janice Taylor, weight loss coach, author and creator of the Kick in the Tush Club, which inspires dieters to stay on track. “I can’t stand cardio, so interval with strength training is my favorite,” says Ragan, who has lost 116 pounds and was a Grand Prize winner of the 2009 Weight Watchers Inspiring Stories of Change contest.
Next comes five minutes of interval training-alternating walking and running on the treadmill-and finally, three minutes of squats, lunges and wall sitting. She started with five minutes of hill climbing on the treadmill, elliptical or bike, followed by two minutes of bicep curls, tricep extensions, lateral raises and upright rows with 8- to 10-pound weights. JoAnne Ragan, 32, of Akron, Ohio, used a heart rate monitor equipped with a calorie counter to figure out how she could burn 100 calories in 15 minutes. “By using all these teeny, tiny muscles you burn more calories just by sitting.” How? “When seated on an exercise ball, you engage your core muscles more,” Vazquez says. Do you spend at least two hours a day sitting? Well, trading in your office chair for an exercise ball can help you burn an extra 50 calories an hour, says personal trainer Monica Vazquez from New York Sports Clubs. You can also use Google’s pedometer map to plan a mile course around your house or office, or use a traditional pedometer: 2,000 steps equals about one mile. “So the faster you can cover the mile, the faster you can burn off the 100 calories.” A treadmill calculates your distance as your walk or run, while four laps on a running track will constitute a mile. On average, it takes one mile of walking or running to burn 100 calories, says nutritional biochemist and exercise physiologist Shawn M. Too basic for you? Tell us below how you find creative ways of burning extra calories throughout your day. Those small adjustments each day could make a huge difference in the long run. So if you had the chance to burn through an extra 100 calories a day with little to no effort, you'd be willing to give it a shot, right? Below are a bunch of easy, time-saving ways of slashing through calories that barely require any extra thought. You know to step back from the local and to hop on the express instead you grab coffee from the shop that has your order practically waiting for you at the same time each morning you've checked all your email on your phone by the time you take your first step into work.
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