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The Craziest Ways To Burn Calories

Today, most of us are obsessed with counting calories. We tend to go crazy with the calculations of how many calories to consume, how many to spend and how many to burn.

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And then we also wonder how to burn calories fast. Well, every activity that you take up requires some amount of energy and you need to burn some calories to get the same.

The idea of taking up intense workouts is to burn the excess calories that you have consumed so that your body will not have fat deposits. But unfortunately, most of us don't have enough time to incorporate exercise in our lives.

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So, how to burn calories? Well, here are some crazy ways to burn calories. Go through them but realise that none of these activities can be as good as an intense workout.

Fact #1

Fact #1

Tell a joke and laugh for 5 to 10 minutes. It burns nearly 40 calories.

Fact #2

Fact #2

Be romantic. A steamy session of 30 minutes in the bedroom can burn more than 200 calories.

Fact #3

Fact #3

A passionate kiss for a minute can burn nearly 5 calories depending upon how passionate your kiss is!

Fact #4

Fact #4

If you have the habit of chewing a gum always then here is the news: it burns 11 calories an hour.

Fact #5

Fact #5

If you have just spent an hour texting your girlfriend then you have just burnt 40 calories!

Fact #6

Fact #6

Take your pet for a walk and you can easily burn 200 calories in an hour.

Fact #7

Fact #7

Hug your partner for 60 minutes and burn 60 calories.

Fact #8

Fact #8

People who move all the time, tend to burn 25% more calories than those who sit all the time.

Fact #9

Fact #9

Dance with your mate for 15 minutes. It can burn more than 75 calories.

Fact #10

Fact #10

When you go to shopping, remember this: pushing the trolley for 30 minutes can easily burn nearly a hundred calories.


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Story first published: Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 22:22 [IST]
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