1. When brushing your teeth, stand on one leg (e.g., raising your right knee towards your chest-hold for 30 seconds and repeat with other leg for 30 seconds)-this is a great way to kick off your day and strengthen your abdominal muscles.
2. Try to walk to work instead of taking the car-and if you do, walk fast for 30 seconds-then slow for 30 seconds-repeat for the entire walk.
3. At work, sit upright and at the end of your chair, (or even better use a big balance ball to sit on) with your shoulders down and chest up (imagine a string is tied to your top shirt button and is pulling your chest up)-this helps improve your posture (helping you look thinner!)
4. Perform light stretching exercises such as chin tucks, arm reaches and back bends (hold each stretch for 15-30 seconds) every few hours to improve your blood circulation and increase your energy.
5. Use your briefcase or bring some hand held weights or resistance bands to work and perform a few overhead squats and lunges for an energy break.
6. Do Chair Planks: During your office telephone conference meetings, stand when participating and lean into your office chair to perform “abdominal planks”-place your chair against a wall and lean into it walk your feet away from the chair-tighting your abdominal muscles-raise your left leg in the air and hold for 30 seconds-repeat to the other side 10 each leg. Don’t worry you can close the door 
7. Have your meetings on the go-when it’s practical, schedule you’re brainstorming sessions or creative meetings with your group while walking around the building or outside.
8. Breathe deeply:set a timer on your watch or computer to remember to breathe deeply at least once or twice a day. This wil help you increase energy, releive stress and help manage your blood pressure.
9. Have a ball-throughout the day, squeeze a tennis ball or raquetball as many times as you can for one-two minutes at a time. This helps to increase blood flow, relieves stress, increases forearm and joint stength and helps burn a few more calories.
10. Find other creative ways to move throughout your day: Instead of emailing messages to colleagues-hand deliver messages instead of IM or email, take the stairs instead of the elevator, park your car a little further awway and walk a couple of extra minutes and think of standing when talking on the phone-every little bit helps (in fact, consuming an extra 100 calories per day for one year = 10 pounds of fat! Just think if we were to burn 100 extra calories per day!!)
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