Weight Loss is a Laughing Matter

Losing weight is something that’s on a lot of our To-Do lists. And how nice would it be if everyday things we did would add up to calories lost? The good news is that laughing actually does burn calories – no kidding. And while you might not be able to drop twenty pounds during a funny movie, you will be able to trim the calories you take in each day, just by laughing at yourself, at others, and at the ridiculousness of life.

Having a good laugh a number of times a day not only reduces your stress, but also helps your body burn extra calories.

Just laughing for ten to fifteen minutes at a time will burn about 10 to 50 calories. While this doesn’t sound like a lot, the more you laugh the more calories you will burn. Also, if you are slightly heavier, you will burn more calories overall, helping to boost your weight loss efforts. When you laugh, your entire body has to work hard. Your heart pumps more blood, your lungs take in more air, and you make a sound. All of these processes require fuel, which means you need to burn calories. And the louder and lengthier the laugh, the more calories you can burn.

What’s great is that adding laughs to your day is easy. All you need to do is to find ways to remind yourself to laugh and to take a break from the seriousness of your life. Start by signing up for joke email lists so that you always have some jokes to read first thing in the morning and last thing at night. This way, you can easily laugh before anyone is around, really letting those laughs out. You can also try to watch more comedies than dramas when you watch movies, helping to add to your laughing total for the day. Try to interact with people you find funny too. This will help you to not only get some socializing in, but you will also continue to add to your calorie expenditure.

While the calorie count for laughing doesn’t sound all that high, just laughing for ten to fifteen minutes each day can add up to almost a five pound weight loss over the course of the year. This is a significant weight loss – or it can simply help you to not gain those pounds over the year. In addition, when you laugh, you decrease the feelings of stress you may be having. In doing so, you will decrease the possibility of eating due to stress and due to tension. Bringing some happiness into your life can work wonders for your waistline.

With laughing, you can begin to add more calories to your daily expenditure. When you think about it, you need to burn 500 calories a day in order to lose a pound a week. If you can reduce your calories in your diet and laugh a few times a day, losing weight can actually be easy and fun.

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