Never Stop Moving

The consistently thinnest woman (same thin weight she has been since high school and she is over 50!) I have ever known is always moving. In the decades that I have known her I have noticed that she never stops moving and rarely sit down. This is something that has happened naturally to me as a full time Mom (notice I did not say "Stay Home Mom"....we DO NOT stay home! Whoever gave us that name should be kicked!). Another thing I noticed about this thin woman is that when she is sitting she is STILL moving! Fidgeting burns calories too! In Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding" he tells his bodybuilding readers NOT to fidget while sitting so as to not lose calories but to save those calories and fuel for weight lifting. Reading that information immediately made me become a toe tapping, leg kicking, fidgeting sitter. So stand when you can, fidget if you sit and lay down only at night when your head hits the pillow to burn calories even when you are not working out.