According to SparkPeople.com, a great free tool if you need to track what day of the week it is, but can’t even remember what you ate for breakfast:
“Results showed that people took an average of 491 more steps each day if they wore casual clothing to work. That means that just by dressing comfortably, study subjects increased their daily calorie burns by 8 percent!”
Sadly, this fitness plan does not apply to the work-from-couch lifestyle. No matter how casual my clothes get (and today I wore the same outfit I wore two days ago to a pyjamma party. You decide what to call it.) I don’t feel properly exercised unless I actually stand up and leave the apartment. No fair! Study flawed!*
*(Not to mention that according to my earlier observations, very active people are likely to dress more casually at work anyway, as technically are, say, nurses, waiters and others whose days involve a lot of walking, thereby skewing study results.)
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