Nervous Energy and Weight Loss
With all the many ways that exist to lose weight, surely one of the most overlooked is the burning of nervous energy. This can be observed in what we deem as "nervous types" of people who seem unable to sit completely still for more than a few seconds without starting to fidget. It is often evident in offices where the people working there tend to sit still at their desks for the duration of their working day. This may seem mildly irritating to those who don't fidget, but in fact the fidgeters are doing themselves and their body weight more good than is often realized.
What they are actually doing is creating a body motion which means muscles are active. And those muscles need energy to perform the motion they are actively undergoing. That energy is supplied by the burnable sugars that are dissolved in the bloodstream, namely glucose. As the supply of glucose in the bloodstream is gradually used up by these fidgeting muscles, that supply must be replaced to maintain the correct blood sugar levels. If the body doesn't get that supply from food or drinks recently consumed and processed by the digestive process, it must take it from the body's store of fat. Granted, this is a slow process and only a tiny amount of fat will be processed to maintain the body's blood sugar levels, but when a person habitually fidgets for most of their day, they are actually burning a considerable amount of calories more than the person sitting next to them who is maintaining a motionless aspect.
This phenomenon goes some way to explaining why you tend to get some people in an office who never seem to put on any weight even though they eat and drink just as much and sometimes more than their colleagues who have a tendency to gain weight because of the sedentary way they spend their working day. It is a well know fact that sitting motionless for a large part of the day is a major contributor to gaining weight and leading to being overweight. The usual way of countering this problem is by eating a calorie controlled diet to compensate for the reduction in the number of calories that are burned through inactivity.
While controlling the number of calories going in helps, by far the more effective way is to burn those calories off by using nervous energy in the form of that irritating fidgeting! The leg vibrators, pen tappers, desk finger drummers and co have accessed a means of controlling their weight without realizing it, while the rest of the office looks on in unknowing exasperation at their fidgeting colleagues amazing and seemingly magical ability to stay slim. Well, now you know at least in part how they are doing it.
