If you don't have time for the gym, jogging, or cycling outdoors, you can increase your calorie expenditure through household chores. Energy is expended when you do anything except eat and sleep. These activities can also help you relax, reduce stress, and better manage your weight.

Vacuuming carpets and floors: Pushing a vacuum cleaner around the house burns a significant number of calories. Vacuuming for 30 minutes burns about 70-90 calories. If you dance and move continuously while vacuuming, you'll burn even more calories.

Mowing the lawn: Using a push mower provides a good full-body workout. A person weighing about 57 kg can burn nearly 125 calories in 30 minutes of continuous mowing, and more if they mow for longer.

Washing the car: Filling buckets with soapy water, scrubbing the exterior and windows, and cleaning the interior makes you sweat. Washing your car by hand for 30 minutes can burn approximately 100-135 calories.

Changing and washing bed linens: Changing bed linens requires a surprising amount of energy. Stripping the bed, remaking it, and laundering the linens takes about 30-50 minutes. This activity burns approximately 180-200 calories.

Playing at the park with your kids: A trip to the park, letting your children play on the slides or kick a ball, benefits everyone’s physical and mental well-being. Even 30 minutes of light activity or play can burn around 120-178 calories. More vigorous activities like playing soccer or basketball burn even more calories.

Gardening: Half an hour of raking can burn 120 to 170 calories. Just 30 minutes of weeding burns about 139 calories. Watering plants or tending a garden burns calories, builds strength, and develops muscles.

Cooking and cleaning up after meals: Cooking usually takes 60-90 minutes, from preparation to cooking. After the meal, cleaning and washing dishes for 30 minutes burns 180-300 calories, as opposed to lying down or sitting on the sofa.

Faster, more continuous activity increases your heart rate, which improves endurance and burns calories effectively. To lose weight, eat a balanced diet, choose healthy foods like lean protein from fish and chicken, and limit processed meats and sweets.

Anh Chi (According to Very Well Health, Health)