Calories Burned by 30 Minutes of sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort
Last Update - 14th January 2016
The calories burned, for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 65 Calories, in 30 minutes of sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort.
The calories burned, for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 55 Calories, in 30 minutes of sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort.
Calories Burned Score and Rank
The activity sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort has a Calorie Burned Score© of 3.50 out of 100. This is our new score, which relates the calories burned to the maximum possible calories. This score the calorie burn is 3.50 % of the highest realistic calorie burn possible.
This activity has a Calorie Burned Rank© of 95.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 95.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. By comparing to our full database of activities there are 782.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn.
Calories per minute and per hour
The calories burned per minute, by sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort for an average man is 2 Calories per minute, and for an average woman is 2 Calories per minute.
The calories burned in one hour is 129 calories for a typical man, and 111 calories in one hour for a typical woman.
Activities Which Burn the Same Calories
The activities which burn the same number of calories as sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort are as follows -
- bathing while sitting
- board game playing, sitting
- card playing, sitting
- chess game, sitting
- copying documents, standing
- eating at church
- eating while sitting
- general light office work whilst sitting
- reclining with baby
- sitting and performing light effort tai chi or qi gong, martial arts
Comparing to Inactivity
30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort burns 1.6 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 1.5 times more calories for an average female.
Equivalent Calories in Food
This level of 65 calories burnt by an average man is equivalent to 0.1 Big Macs, 0.2 snickers bar, 0.5 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.2 cheeseburgers, 0.2 slices of pizza or 0.2 large blueberry muffins. For an average female burning 55 calories is equivalent to 0.1 Big Macs, 0.2 snickers bar, 0.5 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.2 cheeseburgers, 0.2 slices of pizza or 0.1 large blueberry muffins.
Weight Loss From sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort
To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort? Taking this example of in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.01 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.01 pounds.
Based on 4 sessions per week of for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 25 weeks for a man and 25 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.
The same 4 sessions per week of for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 12 weeks for a man and 14 weeks for a woman. To personalise the calories burned sitting, talking in person, on the phone, computer, or text messaging, light effort, please enter your weight and time spent performing the activity, in minutes, into the box below and press the calculate button to find your calories burned.
You can browse the calories burned, for other common activities from the links below. Or use our calories burned calculator.
Reference:
Compendium of physical activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities.
Ainsworth, B, Haskell, W, Whitt, M.
Med Sci Sports Ex, 32(9): S498-S516, 2000.