Decorating for Christmas can burn the calories
Who would have thought that you can consider getting festive as exercise? Well, these activities will get you in the Christmas mood and help burn the calories too.
With Christmas comes decorating, shopping, wrapping, snow shovelling and dancing galore, and guess what, that means burning calories. So there’s no need cut out your favourite snacks. Just treat yourself to a little bit more festive spirit.
With the help of Golden Wonder crisp we show just how many calories you can burn.
DECK YOUR HALLS AND BURN 350 CALORIES
Did you know that spending an hour climbing into the attic, carrying heavy boxes full of baubles and ornaments, and putting up your decorations could burn a massive 350 calories? That’s the equivalent of three packets of Golden Wonder crisps.
SHOP AND BURN 100 CALORIES
This year, don’t let the thought of Christmas shopping stress you out. Pushing a shopping trolley around for half an hour will burn over 100 calories, not to mention the impact lugging heavy shopping bags around the high street will have on your upper arms. Even more reason to be generous this year.
WRAPPING UP WILL BURN OVER 120 CALORIES
Spending one hour wrapping gifts can burn a massive 120 calories. If you choose to wrap all of your gifts in one sitting then you will burn more calories than you’d expect, so get organised and set some time aside to wrap them all in one go.
SNOW SHOVEL AND BURN 200 CALORIES
As snow is becoming an all too familiar fixture in our winter season, did you ever consider just how many calories shovelling snow can burn? Even light snow can offer a moderate workout when done correctly, making way for over 200 calories.
ROCK AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND BURN 195 CALORIES
Dancing is a calorie burning machine! You can burn around 195 calories if you dance for half an hour on the dance floor. But if you keep going all night, then you could end up burning the equivalent of a multipack of Golden Wonder Crisps. As Brucie would say…keep dancing.
And if you’re lucky enough to bag yourself a festive kiss, you could even burn in excess of 30 calories with a cheeky kiss under the mistletoe. Pucker up.
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