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FUN
There is always time to have fun! How wonderful is it that you can have a good time and melt away the pounds at the same time.

Yay! Playing pool for an hour

Dancing for 30 minutes (150 cals)
Playing Frisbee for 20 minutes (150 cals)
Shopping for 40 minutes (150 cals)
Fishing for 35 minutes (150 cals)
Riding a motorcycle for 17 minutes (150 cals)

While you are turning into a lean, mean, non-exercising machine, try to implement a couple of these calorie reduction techniques each day and watch the pounds melt away even faster. Substituting high calorie foods with these options can save you thousands of calories every year.

Swap your sugary soda for water or diet soda - saves 150 calories per soda
Use fat-free margarine instead of regular margarine - saves 95 calories per tablespoon
Instead of salad dressing, use vinegar - saves 100-300 calories
Instead of calorie loaded dips, try salsa - saves about 150 calories
Instead of a Pina-Colada have a daiquiri - saves 150 calories

Cycling (10 minutes). If you have a bicycle, just ten minutes' steady cycling will burn off 100 calories. If you also have kids, it's a great excuse to get everyone out into the fresh air together. Cycling will strengthening your legs and heart.

Video workout (10 to 15 minutes).Find yourself a fitness video you enjoy and give yourself a 10- to 15-minute workout four or five times a week. Not only will this burn some extra calories, it will help you mentally by giving you some time away from your daily routine.

Walking (15 minutes). It's the easiest and simplest exercise known to man. Aim to increase the amount of walking you do to at least one day a week. Walk to work one day if it's not too far, or park the car/get off the bus earlier than usual and get moving. Fifteen minutes' brisk walking will burn at least 100 calories.

Skipping (15 minutes). Skipping ropes are cheap and lightweight, and they can be used pretty much anywhere. Make sure you have a good pair of cross trainers and that you stretch your leg muscles, especially your calves, before and after each session. Not only does skipping work the heart and lungs, your legs and upper body get a great workout too. Fifteen minutes' exercise will burn 100 calories or more. You may have to start in bursts of two to three minutes, but you will be surprised how quickly your body adapts.



HOUSEKEEPING
We all have to clean our homes, why not think of it as a work out. You can lose weight by doing any of these activities:

Cooking for 45 minutes
Cleaning Blinds, closets and/or shelves for 30 minutes
Scrubbing floors for 20 minutes
Vacuuming for 35 minutes
Mopping floors for 38 minutes

YARD WORK
Go ahead and multitask. Keep up with the Jones and donate your too-big clothes to them when you lose the weight!

Mowing the lawn for 30 minutes
Gardening for 40 minutes
Raking leaves for 30 minutes
Shoveling snow for 15 minutes




100 ways to burn 100 calories

IN THE SHORTEST TIME POSSIBLE
Less than 5 minutes
Chop wood continuously for 4 minutes, 22 seconds.
Run a five - minute mile. (You'll have burned 100 by 4 ½ minutes)
Jump on a stationary bike and ride it at a pace of 20 MPH for 4 minutes, 52 seconds.

less than 10 minutes
Hum the theme song Rocky as you skip rope for 9 ½ minutes.
Hike the great outdoors with at least 22 pounds in your backpack for 9 minutes, 15 seconds.
Play racquetball for 7 minutes, 17 seconds.
Swim a few laps of your favorite stroke back, breast or butterfly): 8 minutes or less, depending on the stroke.
Travel underwater instead of on the top of it and you can burn calories even faster. Scuba-dive for seven minutes,11seconds.
Hit a few on the tennis court: Play for nine minutes.


Less than 15 minutes
Ski down an advanced slope.
> Tread water for 14 ½ minutes.
Snorkel in the pool and kick at a moderate pace(14 minutes, five seconds).
Use a stationary rower for 11 minutes.
Hit the weights for 13 minutes.
Take an intense aerobics class and enjoy the scenery for 11 minutes, eight seconds.
Walk uphill for 13 minutes.

PLAYING PROFESSIONAL SPORTS

FACE Michael Jordan on the court for nine minutes.

Go two rounds with Mike Tyson. (do not think you could survive that long? No problem. Lying unconscious for an hour will also burn the same amount.)

Carry Lee Trevino's bags for two holes

Throw fastballs to the White Sox for two innings (14 minutes on the mound)

Play half a period of professional hockey. (Lose calories and teeth at the same time.)

Bowl 10 frames against Earl Anthony. (You may not bowl 300,but you will burn 100).

Throw long passes while avoiding the Pittsburgh Steelers defense for 10 minutes.

DURING A ROMANTIC EVENING


Woo her with a 33- minute tune on the piano.

Slow-dance through seven songs about 26 minutes).

Give her a full body massage for 19 ½ minutes.

Shower her with 9,240 mini-kisses all over her body.

Sweep her off her feet and carry her up to the bedroom. this only works if your bedroom's on the 13th floor. If not, you burn eight calories per flight of stairs, so walk her round a bit.)

Make love for about an hour. Then again, if you can accomplish this on regular basis, chances are she does not care how fat you are.)

Make breakfast in bed for her the next morning. Include cooking for 20 minutes, serving it to her and,yes,doing the dishes.)

WITHOUT MOVING A MUSCLE

Watch 2 ½ back-to-back episodes of Mary Tyler Moore reruns (four episodes if you have them on the tape and you are zapping the commercials).

Get stuck in traffic for almost an hour.

Slip ice water all day long. Eight 16- ounce glasses of ice water raises your metabolism (the rate which your body burns calories) and burns an extra 100 calories.

WORKING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

Paint the house or clean the gutter for 16 minutes

Rake leaves for 20 minutes.

Push-mow the lawn for 14 minutes.

Wash and wax the station wagon for about 18 minutes.

Shovel snow for 12 minutes, or use the snow bowler for 17 minutes

SPENDING TIME WITH THE BOYS

Play power pool. You'll need to shoot 10 racks at an average of three minutes a game.)

Shoot some darts: four games of countdown 301 or one game of cricket.

Play 13 hands of poker.

Restore your buddy's classic T-bird for 18 minutes.

AT YOUR DESK JOB

Push a pencil for 45 minutes

Walk back and forth to the copier for 26 minutes.

Type on a regular typewriter for 42 minutes; 48 minutes if you have a PC

Talk up a client for 52 minutes.

DOING THE THINGS YOUR WIFE TELLS YOU TO DO

Spend 13 minutes finding just the right spot for the #@*&% couch.

Take rex out for a 23-minute walk.

Haul out the trash eight times.

Lift and lower the toilet seat 3,740 times.
(Just be sure to leave it down on the last one.)

DOING THE THINGS MOM TOLD YOU NOT TO DO

Run with scissors for 9 ½ minutes.

Talk with your mouth full for more than 38 minutes.

Jump up and down on the bed 1,336 times.

Wrestle with your kid brother on the living room floor for seven minutes.

DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER

Do 97 pushups (at 10 pushups a minute).

Do 146 crunches (at 15 crunches a minute).

Play the nickel slots in Reno 234 times or $11.70 worth).

Put 156 golf balls at six putts a minute).

ACTING OUT SCENES OF YOUR FAVORITE FILMS

Grab a golf club and make like a swashbuckling hero. You'll burn 100 big ones in just 8 ½ minutes (and probably break every lamp in the house).

Groove like Travolta during a dance-contest scene .

Hit the open road like a wild rider.

Reenact the end of any movie starring Van Damme, Seagal or Lee (martial arts): roughly eight minutes.

Stand in the mirror and repeat, Are you talking' to me? Are you talking' to me?" 519 times.

GETTING INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Chop down five Christmas trees. you could have a tree in every room of the house or be generous and volunteer to do the honors for your friends and family.)

Spend half an hour putting up the lights outside the house.

Roast peanuts on an open fire (31 minutes).

Save your Christmas shopping for the last minute: Walking briskly through a mall with a stack of packages will burn through 100 calories in just over 19 minutes.

Wrap 21 of those gifts when you get home.

BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT

plant two medium sized trees.

Save gas by riding your bike to work(21 minutes at a leisurely pace).

Volunteer to pick up trash along the highway for 19 ½ minutes.

Crush 623 cans for recycling.

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

Man a sailboat for 26 minutes.

Read the financial section for an hour.

Drive on a polluted road with open windows of your second hand car for about 38 ½ minutes.

Travel the harbor lines during the peak hours in a second class compartment on the day when you have bunked office

Eat all the possible junk stuff from a dirty furnished third class restaurant at least twice a week.

BEING A GOOD FATHER

Push your child in a stroller for 30 minutes

Change 52 diapers.

Take your kids for an outing a day prior to the final exam

Sit to watch a horror film with your kid in the night instead of telling him all those weird stories about prince and princess.