7. Family game night: My trainer suggests a fun game night with the family. Even a board game can help burn a few calories, since playing cards can burn 159 calories if you play for 90 minutes. You just have to be able to avoid snacks while playing.

   8. Prepare dinner: Take some time to prepare your dinner. Of course, you’ll have to make healthy dinners rather than high calorie dinners, since How Stuff Works points out you’ll only burn 74 calories during 30 minutes of meal prep.

   9. Wash the car: Clean your own car, instead of going to the car wash. You’ll burn close to 277 calories after an hour, and you could save money since you aren’t paying for someone else to do it.

  10. Toss the Frisbee: You can play with your kids and burn calories. Instead of just watch your kids, actually play with them. Frisbee toss can burn 98 calories in 30 minutes. Imagine how much you could burn if you played something even more active with your kids!

Of course, it is important to realize that just doing these activities won’t lead to 10 pounds of weight loss. I still need to exercise 20 to 30 minutes most days. The point of this list is to help me find some more “fun” (or at least bearable) activities that I can do to increase the number of calories I burn in a day, in chunks of as little as five minutes.

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