Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Burning Calories Spring Cleaning

Who knew that "Cleaning, light (dusting, straightening up, vacuuming, changing linen, carrying out trash), moderate effort" burns 2 calories per minute. Well that's what I was doing this morning, and will be doing this afternoon. Spring cleaning. And I love it. I can do this for 5 hours today and burn 503 calories - way more than I would if I was to push myself to "exercise". Also "Cleaning, heavy or major (e.g. wash car, wash windows, mop, clean garage), vigorous effort" burns 4 calories per minute. I love it!!!