One of the basic requirements in knowing that you’re on your way to weight loss is to burn more calories that stocking them in your body. There are many things that you can do that burns more calories than you think. However, you don’t just work out and exercise blindly to get all the calories off in your body. You still need calories in your body as this is also a form of energy. Without them you’ll end up with lesser energy to exercise and develop those muscles. Because of this, you have to know how much your are burning in the things that you do. If you go online, there are hundreds of charts that will tell you the corresponding number of calories being burned. Here are some of the activities and their corresponding calorie burning ability per minute.

Reading: 1-2 calories
Cleaning the House: 2-5 calories
Walking: 4-8 calories
Swimming: 8-14 calories
Jogging: 13-20 calories
Sprinting: 19-30 calories

Obviously, this is not a complete list but you can still compare some of your activities to the list. Also take note that the heavier you are, the more calories that you will be burning per minute. When you do them at a regular rate, it will be be more effective and definitive on the calorie that you’ll be burning every time you do this activity. For example, walking is very simple but you have to be really consistent about it. If you stop and go, you’ll end up burning carbohydrates instead of calories. It’s still good to burn carbs but it will not make you lose weight directly. Instead they will develop your muscles in your body.

Now that you have the numbers, it’s time to compare them with another list: the number of calories that you take daily. In everything that you eat, there’s a corresponding calorie and rarely there are some food that has absolutely zero calorie. You can find lots of resources online on the food that you can take with less calories. Most of the food that’s recommended are green vegetables. They are high in fiber and vitamins but less in calories.

If you really want to lose weight, you need to create a deficiency in the calorie intake and  the calories that you burn in all of your activities. You can simply do the math and you’ll know if you are burning enough calorie to create a deficiency.