Sunday, November 20, 2011

Can you have your cake (or pie) and eat it too?


Food
Calories Amount
Activity
6 oz. mulled wine
Swimming laps doing the crawl stroke for 16 minutes will burn 158 calories*
4 oz. white turkey meat
22 minutes of a friendly game of touch football burns 158 calories
4 oz. dark turkey meat
Sneak away for a 20-minute run and burn 189 calories
One cup mashed potatoes
Burn 243 calories by walking briskly for one hour
1/4 cup gravy
26 minutes of heavy cleaning burns 105 calories. Here's a 40-minute treadmill workout to burn off the mashed potatoes with gravy combo.
1/2 cup sweet potatoes with marshmallows
Doing 66 minutes of fast-paced yoga burns 296 calories
One cup stuffing
A 23-minute bike ride at a moderate pace will burn 207 calories
1 slice of apple pie
Hiking for an hour and four minutes will burn off 413 dessert calories
1 slice of pumpkin pie
Turn on some tunes and have a dance party in your living room for just over an hour and burn 317 calories
1 slice of pecan pie
If there's snow on the ground where you live, you'll burn 504 calories snowshoeing for an hour and 10 minutes

These are ways to burn the calories that you eat over the Thanksgiving holiday meal! Enjoy the time spent with family and friends, and yes, you can have your cake (or pie!) and eat it too!!!