Move It!

If you are tying to lose those unwanted pounds and just can't quite make them budge, try moving more! Surely exercise is key to weight loss as is a balanced diet that is appropriate to your caloric needs, but increasing your metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn calories) is a much overlooked part of the equation!

So how do you increase your metabolic rate? Move it!! The more you can move throughout the day, the more calories you will burn, increasing that metabolic rate.

Movement doesn't have to be boring...

** Put on up tempo music and dance around the house

** Race yourself! Give yourself a limited amount of time (for example, 10 minutes) to vacuum the upstairs part of your house. Then see if you can dust chosen rooms in 9 minutes. The quicker you move around the house, the more calories you will burn.

** Play outside with your kids... challenge them to a race around the yard or see who can jump the most times in a row, who can hop on one foot the most times?

** During the commercials of your favorite TV show, walk up and down the stairs three times.

Making a point to move more will help you on your road to weight loss. So.... move it!