1. Get up and walk around your office or home: Thisshould happen at least every two hours for 5 minutes. This brisk five-minutewalk every two hours will give you an extra 20-minute walk by the end of theday without making any special efforts.

2. Wash something thoroughly once a week: Be it the floor, a couple ofwindows, the shower stall, bathroom tiles or your car...anything that makes youdon your cleaning gloves and exert some pressure on your hands and elbows burnsnearly four calories for every minute spent on cleaning. A washing session of30 minutes and you've worked off nearly 120 calories.

3. Drop a movie for an active date: Yes, it's a weekend and you'replanning to spend time with your love. Why not head to the local park ratherthan sit idle in a movie hall? This will not only give you a chance of walkinghand in hand, but will also avoid the calories that a large bucket of butterpopcorns holds in. What's more? Explore other active dating ideas like cyclingtogether; enjoying a tennis match or a swimming championship...even losing toyour love will be fun here!

4. Take a walk before dinner: Yes, you are reading it right! Walkingpost dinner helps in digestion and burning calories, walking before gorging onyour favourite dinner cuts down on your appetite. "Twenty minutes ofwalking reduces appetite and increases sensations of fullness as effectively asa light meal," informs Balasubramaniam.

5. Make the most of your TV time: This one is for the cricket crazy menand soap obsessed women who spend hours being a couch potato. Now make the mostout of the commercial breaks to burn some calories and tone-up your body withthe following set of exercises:

• As the break starts, do 25jumping jacks.

• Then jog on the spot for thecount of 30.

• Do 25 abdominal crunches.

• Lastly, get on the floor andplace your feet up on your coffee table and do 25 hip lifts. By the time thebreak ends, you would have burnt a major chunk of calories.