A recent study seems to suggest that vigorous exercise does help in burning fat, but it also increases appetite.  Apparently, our body has a tendency to maintain our current weight, whatever it might be.  The key is apparently to burn calories on the sly, without triggering the compensating appetite.
So – in addition to standing around a lot as suggested by the article, consider the following three ways of sneaking exercise into our day by marrying mini-workouts with every day tasks:
Walk ‘n Talk
Turn your tete-a-tete with a colleague into a brisk …

One errand I seriously dislike is grocery shopping.  It’s tedious.  It’s mind-numbingly repetitive and boring.
Not to get obsessive about it, but here is one way to make it less painful, especially if you are a working mom trying to squeeze this chore into a weekday.
The Master List
You need a list.  Going to the store without a list is like going shopping for shoes for someone you’ve never met.  Insane.
So start with a list.  To take the pain out of the list, make up your master list.  No matter how accomplished …

I’ve never liked vegetables.  Except tomatoes.  Except a tomato, technically, is not even  a vegetable.  Getting the five-odd servings a day has always been a struggle.  Frankly, I didn’t worry about it too much.  After all, I was fine, healthy, bounding with energy and all around feeling-goodness.
Until my metabolism caught up with me.  Or rather, I caught up with my metabolism.  My meals had consisted mostly of pasta with an interesting mix of sauces, and when that got old, I turned to rice with an interesting mix of curries.  Suddenly, …

So you’ve created a Gmail account, and are happily using it for your personal stuff.  You subscribe to a thing or two, and before you know it, your mailbox is flooded with emails.  Newsletters, breaking news, helpful local happenings.  You do want to be in the know, just need to manage them a bit better.
Enter Gmail filters.
These filters are analogous to rules on other email systems, and are really easy to set up.  To the right of the search box, right after Search Web and Search Mail, you will find …

Keeping track of every item on your shopping, project and scheduling list in your head is a complete waste of your brain power.  Not to mention that awful sense of unease that you must be forgetting something …
Get it out of your head and into a single, trusted “inbox”. There only three requirements for a good inbox are:

It must be with you at all times
You always use it to accept input
You always refer to it (this is the difficult bit!)

You see, your brain comes right on top when being auditioned …