10 Ways to Lose Calories without Exercising

Infomercials bombard us every day with techniques to lose weight fast. But many of us actually shun the idea of losing weight without much effort. However there are ways of losing weight without being a total gym bunny. All you have to do is make a few changes in your lifestyle.

Read these types and make a few small alterations and you will be on your way to slimville in no time, Just remember patience is the name of the game.

10. Talking on the phone

You lose 46 calories while talking on the phone for an hour. So spend an hour talking on the phone with your best friend. Those long hours of talking with her are more valuable than you think.

9. Shopping

Girls this is a dream come true you burn 450 calories in a two hour shopping session. So those long hours spent on the phone with your best friend are not a waste of time after all.

8. Spicy Food

Adding 5g of Tabasco sauce to any meal can raise your metabolism by 12-20 percent for up to two hours after you’re done.This is caused by capsaicin – the nutrient that makes chili peppers hot.

7. Shivering

Shivering burns calories, so if you can spend more time outside when it’s cold, you’ll crank up the calorie furnace. Even if you don’t shiver, though, you can get a 3-7% increase in calorie burn just from your body warming itself

6. Standing

Your fat burning enzymes and metabolism are more active when your standing. By exchanging sitting for standing you can burn up to a few hundred calories per day.

5. Caffeine

Caffeine tends to increase the number of calories you burn, probably because they stimulate thermogenesis — one way your body generates heat and energy from digesting food and because the boost in energy means you move around more (which means more calories burned).

4. Fidgeting

Obese people don’t fidget as much as lean people who tend to be more hyper.You can lose up to 350 calories per day just bu twitching, twirling their hair and tapping your feet. If you add up all the energy made in these low grade activities, you can lose up to 10-30 pounds per year!

3. Eating

People who eat small meals after every two hours will have a better metabolism rate and will have the ability to lose weight faster.

2. Drinking ice cold water

The colder the water you drink, the more calories you burn, since your body expends more energy warming up the water. If you have 8 glasses (64 oz) of ice-cold water in a day, you’ll burn 70 more calories than if you drank 8 glasses of a body temperature beverage

1. Breathing

Really! losing weight is as simple as breathing.Try this exercise for a better metabolism rate, inhale slowly through your nose, hold for a 1 count, then exhale through your mouth. The breath should originate from the back of the throat and finish from deep inside the stomach. Once you’ve practiced and perfected this form of breathing, it can become a natural mechanism for burning more calories without exercising.