For men and women weighing 155 pounds (70.5 kg), everyday home- and house-related tasks can burn off the excess pounds:

• Taking care of the kids (dressing or feeding them): 211-246 calories per hour

• Playing with the kids:  281-352 calories per hour

• House cleaning:  176-317 calories per hour

• Gardening:  352 calories per hour

• Mowing the lawn: 176-387 calories per hour

• Moving furniture:  422 calories per hour

• Painting or wallpapering the house:   317 calories per hour

• Shoveling snow (by hand):  422 calories per hour

• Sweeping the driveway:  281 calories per hour

"Health Lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil." ~ Wendell Phillips