A few small changes to your daily routine and you’ll be doing more exercise, burning calories, and losing the inches, without even knowing it. Try these ideas:

• Instead of sleeping in on the weekend, find a local hiking path or biking trail. A 2 hour hike, or bike ride, will burn calories and work of the inches.

• Skip the elevators and escalators. Walk the stairs at work or at the mall.

• Purchase a pedometer. It’s a great way to track your steps and calories burned. You may be surprised at how many miles of walking you do in a day.

• Find the parking spot the furthest away from the entrance to your workplace. Those additional steps will help burn calories.

Here is a Calorie Calculator that will show how much weight everyday tasks can help you lose.