Fidgeting: losing weight with small movements

Half of the Dutch have overweight and more than half move too little. Because we work at home more, have a lot of stress and consume sugar-rich products, our lifestyle is becoming increasingly unhealthier. If you also don’t move enough, the pounds will fly. If you don’t like sports or you can’t do this anymore because you’re in a wheelchair, for example, it can be difficult to break this pattern. Time to adjust your lifestyle with ‘fidgeting’.

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With a few simple, everyday movements you can start your combustion nicely. For example, with ‘fidgeting’ (literally: ‘fidgeting’) you can tighten very small muscles by, for example, tapping a little with your pen (72 calories per hour) or feet (350 calories per day), chewing gum (11 calories per day). hours), tense your butt (35 calories per hour) or click with your mouse (142 calories per 100 clicks). The fidget would measure the amount of calories you burn with such a 29 and 38 percent raise, while sitting or standing.

Lifestyle Tips

Can you still move well? Then it is also advisable to walk up and down the stairs every day, get up regularly or do groceries by bike instead of with your car. Liesbeth van Rossum, internist and endocrinologist, has more useful lifestyle tips in the video below and the Healthy Conversation podcast ‘Fat important!’ of health network.

Liesbeth van Rossum is an internist and endocrinologist and Mariette Boon is an internist in training and researcher into brown fat. Together they wrote the bestseller ‘Fat Important’. This duo knows all about body fat and how you can influence it. Do you want to lose weight? Listen to the podcast below before you start a diet, because then you can avoid common mistakes.