Did you know that women’s waists were six inches smaller in the 50’s? It seems that a by product of living in this century is a larger waist. Along with all of our modern conveniences that take the elbow grease out of scrubbing and our eight to ten hour days sitting at a desk, our figures are changing.
If this is what they mean by evolution, they can have it! I don’t to evolve into someone larger. I guess our mothers and grandmothers did work harder than we do, even if they didn’t work outside the home.
Our days may be fuller due to full time jobs and kids in twenty seven activities every week, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we are working harder. We are the generation who grew up with “Work smarter, not harder” and we’ve taken it to heart. At the risk of our hearts and our shapes.
When is the last time you scrubbed a floor on your hands and knees? When I was younger I cleaned houses and that was the only way I did the floors of the homes I cleaned and I was much thinner then and with good reason. If you scrub your floor you can burn over 200 calories an hour and work all your core muscles.
It’s amazing how much we have given up as we get more and more modern conveniences that do the work for us, but we have to work more hours to pay for them.
Cleaning your house like your grandmother used to, using actual elbow grease, scrubbing power and actual sweat can burn over 1,000 calories. I don’t burn that many calories going to they gym.
I may need to rethink my life, if I clean the house like they used to, I can give up my gym membership so I that will be one less thing I have to work to pay for. And while I’m working fewer hours maybe I can make a home cooked meal or two. Or not.
One thing at a time, I didn’t say I wanted to go back to the 50’s, I just want that tiny little waist.