Lose weight watching television

Filed under: News, OpEd, Reality-Free

Craig Harper has written an interesting composition about how to lose weight while watching TV. We are fitting a more sedentary society; Harper says that within a few years some of us will have movement patterns and daily activity levels of an oak tree. In the words of Chris from So You Think You Can Dance, “I’m not a tree.” Chris isn’t a tree. And you don’t have to be one either–even though that fitness guru says so.

Here’s how not to be a tree in a few years. The average American spends three hours a day watching TV (mostly in the evening). Harper says that roughly forty-five minutes of that

block is spent watching commercials. And who wants to watch those? Most commercials suck. So, during each commercial break, you get up and do some step-ups (stepping up and down off a box, platform, step).

Harper even gets into the nitty-gritty math stuff. I don’t speak math, but basically he says that a 150 lbs. person can potentially lose 48 lbs. in a year. I’m no expert but I think “potential” is the operative word in that sentence. Do you still get to eat the whole year? Still, Harper does put a good view out there. Use your commercial day wisely.

 

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Original post by Kristin Sample