Amount of Calories Burned During Christmas Shopping

Racing through the isles, fighting the crowds, you think to yourself I have to be burning some major calories. Christmas shopping (or any shopping for that matter) does burn calories. Everything you do burns calories. If you've ever wondered how many calories are burned during Christmas shopping, I'm going to give you some general figures.

Here are a few samples:

Female, age 35, 5'5", 160 lbs, will burn 249 calories from an hour of Christmas shopping.

Male, age 38, 6', 270 lbs, will burn 301 calories from 45 minutes of Christmas shopping.

Female, age 30, 5'3", 180 lbs, will burn 398 calories from 90 minutes of Christmas shopping.

These figures are accurate for the time that you are moving. The timer would stop when you stop to read a label or look at an item on the shelf. Granted, no one Christmas shops every day, but if they did we would all be a lot thinner. Maybe you could begin walking just one mile per day in your spare time. You would be surprised at how much healthier it will make you.