4th of July top 10
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Burn Calories (Not Your Fingers) at Your Next Barbecue!
The Top 10 Ways to Burn Calories at This Year’s Barbecue!
1. Offer to set up for the entire barbecue and, when it’s over, help clean up. By lending a hand, you will burn approximately 238 calories an hour.
2. Volunteer to baby-sit your relatives’ children. Running around, skipping, jumping, and playing with the little ones will burn around 272 calories an hour.
3. Bring up politics, religion, marriage, or having grandkids. Surely an argument will ensue, and you will lose your appetite. This will help you stay away from fattening and highly caloric foods altogether.
4. Sit next to a friend or relative who has poor eating habits, such as chewing with his mouth open and trying to ingest large quantities of food at once. Viewing such a display will discourage you from eating anytime soon.
5. Attend the barbecue of a friend who always purchases food of the lowest quality and has the reputation for being the worst cook. In this scenario, you won’t be tempted to eat very much at all.
6. Before the rest of the group gets there, mow the lawn, trim the hedges, and arrange the garden. You can burn approximately 340 calories an hour.
7. Stand by the grill throughout the day. You will be so hot that you will sweat profusely, and thereby lose water weight. Seeing your new, slimmed down self will motivate you to stick to a fitness program and lose weight the proper way.
8. Jump into an ice-cold swimming pool, pond, lake, or ocean. You’ll burn calories by simply trying to maintain your body temperature. Plus you’ll burn 57 calories for every five minutes you spend treading water.
9. Start a philosophical debate with your most talkative friend or relative. The long conversation that will follow will occupy such a large part of the day that you won’t have much of an opportunity to eat.
10. Wear the tightest outfit you own the day of the barbecue. Your fear of having your stomach stick out even more after you eat will motivate you to steer clear of overeating.
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