11 Health Hacks For Incurably Lazy People

4. Eat Your Carbs

Contrary to the advice of pretty much any lentil-munching health guru, it's important that you get enough carbohydrate in your diet if you wanna get in shape.

During an intense workout, like the super-quick HIIT we discussed earlier, you body doesn't burn fat, it burns carbs. The high-energy short-burst nature of lazy-person exercise means that the body doesn't have time to mess around trying to convert your fat stores into energy and so it goes for the much more readily available carbohydrates. 

Despite what the clever little charts on your treadmill tell you, you won't enter the "fat burning zone" whilst exercising until you're halfway through a marathon, and who can be arsed with that?

It is only after your workout, after you have depleted you carbohydrate and sugar stores, that your body can slow down enough to burn fat. Your body will burn fat when you're sitting on the couch watching Top Gear re-runs just by keeping your heart beating, your lungs working and regulating your body temperature. If you want to get technical, this is what is called your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and it accounts for up to 70% of your metabolism.

So how does all this mean you should eat your carbs? Well, all that happens if you cut out your carbs is that you will have less energy during your workouts, meaning that you won't be able to work as effectively, meaning that you won't build any muscle or burn as many calories in the first place.

Don't be an idiot like, make sure your carbs a good ones, preferably wholemeal, rather than just piles of brioche.