Well, the Gowear Fit has taught me a lot about NEAT, after I first became acquainted with the term from reading Leigh's books
http://www.fatlosstroubleshoot.com/?hop=frieden70
A couple of things I want to mention:
Today I planted and rearranged plants in my woodland backyard for about 3 hours and then I cleaned my grill (it was pretty dirty), and then I grilled a COSTCO bag of chicken to freeze. It is almost 8pm and the GWF says 2120 with probably another 300 calories to burn tonight, giving me 2400 cal "doing nothing" ... I still have a resistance exercise to do, and I haven't included that in the total. My sedentary cal burn is about 1750, so that 650 calories of NEAT and living.
I really do think about activity now. I think, hmm I don't want to pick up that off the floor, or straighten that, or get up and do this or that, and then I think, "stop complaining, it will burn more NEAT!!"
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Sometimes (don't know if any of you have this issue), I think, I'm so much more energetic than my partner who sits a lot and reads or watches the news on TV for endless hours. In my mind, I can get irritated, "why isn't she doing this or that to help with housework?" .... "Why doesn't she see that this or that needs to be done?" Why doesn't she clear the dining room table.. clean the kitchen, "why does she do less than I around the house?"...
.... And then I think, "well, it is GREAT that I have all this energy. And every extra thing I do is NEAT and is contributing to my being healthy and active and lean!" ... And that turns the irritation into acceptance and compassion and energy spent!