Daily Weight Loss Tip: How everyday chores can help you lose weight (Photo Gallery)

Washing Cleaning House

Sticking to a workout regimen can be tough. Especially if you are someone who loathes planned workout or if you simply don’t have the time to get to it. Let’s face it after a long day of work, hitting the gym can be difficult. But now you don’t have to worry about burning calories at the gym, we tell you how everyday activities can help you shed those kilos.

Washing Woman

Washing your dishes: Standing and moving your hands to clean dishes can help you burn calories. Importantly 28 calories which is like walking on a treadmill for about 10 minutes.

Woman Ironing

Ironing clothes: Again a chore that involves you standing and using your hands to perform the task, ironing clothes helps you burn about 28 calories. That is like cycling for 10 minutes for a distance of 2 kilometres

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Put All Waste In Dustbin

Clearing out the trash and dusting: This chore helps you burn about 29 calories, which is just like walking or bicycling slowly for 10 minutes.

Husband Washing Floor

Mopping the floor: Mopping your floors, whether you do it with a mop or the traditional Indian way (by squatting on the floor) helps you burn 42 calories . Which is as many calories as you would burn if you ran for 5 minutes.

Cooking Food

Cooking: It burns 36 calories and is just like swimming freestyle for 5 minutes. What’s more if you cook your meals you are more likely to stick to a healthy diet. Win-win all around!

Cleaning Bath Tub

Scrubbing your bathroom floor: This essential cleaning regimen burns 46 calories, which is like doing 100 sit ups or crunches!

Changing Bed Linen

Making the bed: Something that most of us do every day, making the bed burns about 24 calories. And it has its benefits, burning these many calories is akin to doing 20 lunges.

Kid Watering Flowers

Watering plants: You lose about 30 calories as you water a plant. Burning these many is like doing squats with weights for 10 minutes!