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Fidgeting at the Office Can Be a Form of Exercise

October 7th, 2011

Are you a fidgety person? The funny thing is that by fidgeting you can actually burn a significant amount of calories each day. What I am talking about here are things like crossing and uncrossing your legs, making up and down movements in your chair, spinning from side to side in a chair, stretching and standing often, and just being an overall restless individual. This fidgety person being described pretty much fits me to a T. I get my work done but I like to fidget, it just comes natural and thankfully it burns a significant amount of calories daily.

The study done that measured calorie loss through fidgeting involved feeding the subjects in the study 1,000 extra calories every day for 8 weeks. Once these people started eating the snacks some of them immediately began fidgeting to burn the extra calories without even realizing it. Almost 33 percent of the thousand calories that were eaten were burned off from fidgeting and restless behavior. The remaining calories left were deposited as fat.

The people in this 8 week study gained anywhere from 2 pounds to 16 pounds but those people that were fidgety at their office desk gained the least amount of fat. There is definitely something positive to be said for the fidgety person you sit next to at your office. Maybe it is you or maybe not but consider that standing up at your desk and stretching every once in awhile can be a really good thing especially if you are a snacker.

In summary you can expect to burn about 330 calories a day from fidgeting at your office desk if you are anything like me. Unfortunately if you eat a snickers bar and drink a coke everyday you aren’t really making any headway. If you fidget your body is simply trying to tell you that you are an active person and you need to get out an do something to shed off some of that activity. What I will do is take a 45 minute break during my lunch hour and go over to XTC Fitness in Tyler and do their noon kickboxing group class. I probably burn 1,000 calories or so in the group class each day and it further assists in burning calories as well as building a little muscle. Consider that for every pound of muscle you put on to your body that muscle will automatically burn an additional 35 – 50 calories a day even if you sat and didn’t fidget at all. So whether you fidget or don’t fidget you can always stay active and the XTC gym is my preferred choice to do that.

Had Lunch at Los Gueros Over By The Original Brunos Pizza on Vine

July 28th, 2010

Los Gueros Mexican Restaurant

I ate lunch today at Los Gueros and it was another stellar meal.

This place is great. Get their tacos or burritos and of course a bottled Coke.

Something about that bottle makes Coke taste so much better.

If I had to pick I would be hard pressed between this place and Don Juan’s mexican.

They each have their own style and so it offers a little change up in authentic mexican food in Tyler without those smelly nasty chitlins all over the food that you get in the really authentic stuff over in North Tyler.

If you like chitlins more power to ya my brother I just hate that nasty stuff when I see them swiming around in some beans or something.

Tyler’s Super Mercado Monterey

January 12th, 2010

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of traveling with my parents to Mexico and Central America. Little scraps of images and impressions, some of which I can no longer put into context, remain in the reassesses of my brain. I do remember the city of Monterey however. I remember stalking the city market, surrounded by sights and smells, all new and foreign. I even recall trying to bargain with the local merchants in my broken Spanish.

As a child visiting Monterey I subsisted on Mexican rolls and bottled Coke. Peanut butter and jelly suddenly became fine cuisine when spread over a bolillo roll. Market food was inexpensive and delicious, and it was generally pretty safe, even for foreigners, so long as you were cautious. The daily trip to the corner bakery was also a part of our ritual. I even remember gathering enough coins off the ground to afford a favorite pastry.

I’ve not been to Mexico in quite a few years. Today my Spanish isn’t really Spanish but mostly consists of what I remember from my high school Latin classes, which are oftentimes close enough to be understandable. But what brings this too ambitious attempt at nostalgia to the pages of tylertxdirectory.com? Well, a little piece of the Monterey market now resides in Tyler.

A visit to Super Mercado Monterey is definitely a cultural experience. The store has so many of the things I loved about the original including bottled drinks I’ve not seen north of the border, freshly rolled tortillas of numerous varieties, pastries, and of course those incredible rolls.

And no trip to the local market could be complete without a helping of street food cooked on the spot. Super Mercado offers a great lunch menu including favorites like a great burrito, (definitely not the microwaveable variety), tacos, tostadas, tamales, etc. The prices are great and the food is exceptional.

But the market isn’t all exotic favs. They also stock more conventional, familiar foods. In those cases I would probably stick with Brookshires or Walmart, simply because the prices are slightly lower on those common items. On most things however, the cost is real low. The charm of the place is both about the culture and foods. There is freshness, and an authenticity about the market. It’s refreshing to shop at a place that doesn’t feel like a national food conglomerate.

If the nostalgia of foreign travel and market places appeals to you, try one that’s right here at home. It’s not like being immersed in another culture but it is something a little different. Super Mercado Monterey is located on the west loop in Westwood center, ironically opposite Taco Bell.