How To Lose That Extra Weight! Here's the guide to calorie-burning activities, and the number of calories per hour they consume. Beating around the bush. . . . . . . . .75 Jumping to conclusions . . . . . . 100 Climbing the walls . . . . . . . . . . 150 Swallowing your pride. . . . . . . . . .50 Passing the buck . . . . . . . . . . .25 Throwing your weight around (depending on your weight). . . .50-300 Dragging your heels. . . . . . . . . . 100 Pushing your luck. . . . . . . . . . 250 Making mountains out of molehills. . 500 Hitting the nail on the head . . . . . 50 Wading through paperwork . . . . . . . 300 Bending over backwards . . . . . . . . 75 Jumping on the bandwagon . . . . . 200 Balancing the books. . . . . . . . . . 25 Running around in circles. . . . . . . 350 Eating crow. . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Tooting your own horn. . . . . . . . 25 Climbing the ladder of success . . . . 750 Pulling out the stops. . . . . . . . . .75 Adding fuel to the fire. . . . . . . . 160 Wrapping it up at the day's end. . . .12 Opening a can of worms . . . . . . . . 50 Putting your foot in your mouth. . . . 300 Covering your tracks . . . . . . . . . 165 Starting the ball rolling. . . . . .90 Going over the edge. . . . . . . . . . 25 Picking up the pieces after. . . . . . 350 Counting eggs before they hatch. . . . . 6 Cracking a smile . . . . . . . . . .35 Calling it quits . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Especially when you consider putting your foot in your mouth is worth 300, and I do that all the time! :-D Too funny.
