Call me stupid (everyone else does
) But until I started doing this seriously I never really knew your burnt calories doing nothing. Ok not nothing, coz your heart is pumping, your lungs are moving, blood is coursing around your body - but I never really "got" that all that activity we are oblivious too burns calories.
I also didn't know you could make you body burn more calories doing nothing by adding exercise, especially weight training.
Until that light went off in my head, I kinda had guilt issues about eating at all (daft I know) but once I accepted my body as this never stopping piece of machinery, it made me feel a lot more empowered about taking control of my eating and exercise.