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‘Tis the season to be eating, baking, drinking gingerbread/peppermint/eggnog lattes and skipping regular workouts to get all those errands done. To help keep your mama guilt in check, we here at LiveMom would like to remind you how you are burning calories this holiday season — often without realizing it!*

• Speed cleaning the house before relatives descend on your house arrive burns 153 calories in just 30 minutes
• Dancing to holiday tunes on Majic 95.5 with your kiddo/s for 10 minutes burns 65 calories
• Walking from where you parked to the Zilker Holiday Festival (roughly equivalent to walking from your house) and back burns 105 calories(add 50 if you are pushing a stroller)
• Sitting and watching A Charlie Brown Christmas burns 40 calories
• Standing in line at the post office to mail gifts on the LAST DAY POSSIBLE WHILE THERE IS ONLY ONE LINE OPEN burns 26 calories
• Taking your life into your own hands in the Costco parking lot and shopping for an hour before spending your entire holiday budget burns 156 calories
• Cooking that fancy meal while dreaming of takeout burns 87 calories
• Singing at the Capitol Tree Lighting burns 136 calories
• Washing dishes in the kitchen to avoid awkward/dull holiday dinner conversation burns 12 calories
• Carrying your petrified child to sit on Santa’s lap at the mall burns 19 calories
• Sweeping pine needles off the floor burns 82 calories
• Doing jumping jacks to keep warm while waiting for the Chuy’s parade to start burns 137 calories
• Reading this post burned 24 calories

* Although here at LiveMom we are occasionally pressed into service as doctors and nurses to our little ones, I have NO medical training. The information above is LOOSELY based on what I found here and here. I must also confess that I rarely, if ever, count calories.

Written by: Nicole Basham

Posted by nxpana on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 9:07 am | 3 Comments » You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.