I'm a framer. I usually spend about 1 hour in total doing work which requires me to stretch and bend forward about 3 feet and back and I lift around large but not heavy items (most of the time I stand fairly still, but over a 6 hr shift I am doing the bending and lifting about an hour in total). Then when I'm home I rarely sit down. I am always cleaning and doing laundry...general housework stuff.

Do you think I burn at least 150 calories just doing these things everyday?

Jen

Jen- I'm not sure on your total calorie used number. BUT, it is atleast double of what you have mentioned and probably more than 300......

Jen,
I can about bet your are way higher than that. Yesterday I went to our local Walmart and bought one of those step calculator things which also tells me how many calories I burn while I am walking, today I walked on the treadmill 1 mile and did 1 mile of "Walk away the pounds" not all at the same time, I had to take a break on the treadmill, (I have an 8 week old baby who woke up),then just your average walking to get a bottle,putting the pacifier back in ( haha ) doing laundry etc, and I didn't put it on my ankle until I was 1/2 way done with the DVD (I forgot I had it), anyways to make a long story short, I burned a whopping 1,362 calories in 2007 steps, so you probably do way more than what I did so far today with all your bending and stretching. If you get a chance buy yourself one of these cool little things, I only paid $3.88 ( I think that's how much it was, it was 3 something) for it, it is such a motivator for me today, I keep doing things to watch the numbers go up. LOL... Good Luck.

OH MY GOSH,
WHAT A BLONDE MOMENT I just had ( literally I am a natural blonde),
I totally read my gadget wrong, it was 136.2 calories, not 1,362 calories. I was soooooo excited thinking wow this is easy this time around to exercise, hahahaha.
Sorry............
God Bless,
Jamy