It takes a herculean effort to walk off lots of calories. It’s easier and more efficient to cut down on portion size. In case you want to make an attempt “to walk” off your candy indulgence:

If this is the candy in your Easter basket — and you eat it all:

• 25 small jellybeans
• 5 Peeps
• 8 malted milk robins eggs
• 1 ounce chocolate bunny
• 1 Cadbury Creme Egg
• 4 Lindt Chocolate Carrots

that adds up to 990 calories. You will need to walk 9.9 miles, 15.96 kilometers, or 19,800 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps.

If this is in your basket:

• 25 small jellybeans
• 5 Peeps
• 5 marshmallow chicks
• 8 malted milk robins eggs
• 1 large 7 ounce chocolate bunny
• 1 chocolate-covered marshmallow bunny
• 1 Cadbury Creme Egg
• 1 Cadbury Caramel Egg

that comes to 2076 calories. You will need to walk 20.76 miles, 33.48 kilometers, or 41,520 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps.

If you’re going “light” and only eat:

• 25 small jelly beans
• 5 Peeps
• 1 medium (1 3/4 ounce) hollow chocolate bunny
• 1 Cadbury Creme Egg

you would rack up 730 calories and you will need to walk 7.3 miles, 11.77 kilometers, or 14,600 steps — assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps — to walk off that number of calories. Sounds like a lot, but it is very doable over a few days.

Holidays and Celebrations

Holidays are days of celebration. But remember that a holiday is just one day and our bodies can easily compensate for a day of indulgence. Problems start when the holiday eating keeps going and going — which is easy to do when there are cabinets stuffed with Easter candy and bowls full of it every where you turn.

So arm yourself with some information, enjoy your holiday, and don’t feel obliged to eat every piece of candy in sight – the first bites always taste the best!

Please share this post with someone who may have eaten every last chocolate egg and jellybean  in the Easter basket!

Happy Easter

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Do you need a reason to splurge on a holiday – it is a celebration, after all? But, in case you want to “carefully” indulge on Easter candy, here’s how much of your favorite candy you can gobble down to the tune of 100 calories:

• 17 Brach’s jellybeans = 102 calories (6 calories each)

• 5 Peeps = 98 calories (28 calories for one Peep)

• 6 Cadbury mini eggs = 96 calories (16 calories for one mini egg)

• 2/3 of a Cadbury Crème egg = 100 calories (one egg is 150 calories)

• 5 Cadbury mini crème eggs = 100 calories (one Cadbury mini crème egg has 40 calories)

• 2/3 of a Cadbury caramel egg = 113 calories (one Cadbury caramel egg has 170 calories)

• 2 Cadbury mini caramel eggs = 90 calories (one Cadbury mini caramel egg has 45 calories)

• 2/3 Reese’s peanut butter egg = 113 calories (one Reese’s peanut butter egg has 170 calories)

• 5 Reese’s peanut butter mini eggs = 100 calories (one Reese’s peanut butter mini egg has 40 calories)

• 5 Hershey’s milk chocolate eggs = 102 calories (one Hershey’s milk chocolate egg has 29 calories)

Over and under the 200 calorie mark:

Higher Calorie Easter Candy (over 200 calories per serving):

• 5 oz mini bag Cadbury Chocolate Mini Eggs: 210
 calories

• 5 Nestle Butterfinger Easter Nestggs: 210
 calories

• 1/4 cup Pastel Peanut M&M’s: 220
 calories

• 9 Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Pastel Kisses with Almonds: 230 
calories

• 5 Hershey’s Pastel Miniature Chocolates: 230
 calories

• 1 small 2.5 ounce Fannie May Solid Milk Chocolate Rabbit: 420
 calories

• 1 small 7 ounce bag Jelly Belly Jelly Beans: 700 calories

Lower Calorie Easter Candy (under 200 calories per serving): 

• 1 package (5 chicks) Peeps Marshmallow Chicks: 140 calories

• 1 Cadbury Crème Egg: 150 calories

• 1 Cadbury Caramel Egg: 170 calories

• 1/8 cup M&M’s: 105 calories

• 1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg: 180 calories

• 4 Reese’s Peanut Butter Mini eggs: 160 calories

• 7 Rolo Pastel Chewy Caramels: 190 
calories

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Is the candy in your kid’s Easter basket calling your name?  What about all of the candy in the snack room that your co-workers brought into work because they don’t want it hanging around their houses?

Here’s another way to look at it:

If You Want To Walk Off Your Easter Candy

Walking is great for many reasons.  Just know that it takes a herculean effort to walk off lots of calories.  For instance:

 If this is the candy in your Easter basket  — and you eat it all:

• 25 small jellybeans
• 5 Peeps
• 8 malted milk robins eggs
• 1 ounce chocolate bunny
• 1 Cadbury Creme Egg
• 4 Lindt Chocolate Carrots

that adds up to 990 calories. You will need to walk 9.9 miles, 15.96 kilometers, or 19,800 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps.

If this is in your basket:

• 25 small jellybeans
• 5 Peeps
• 5 marshmallow chicks
• 8 malted milk robins eggs
• 1 large 7 ounce chocolate bunny
• 1 chocolate-covered marshmallow bunny
• 1 Cadbury Creme Egg
• 1 Cadbury Caramel Egg

that comes to 2076 calories. You will need to walk 20.76 miles, 33.48 kilometers, or 41,520 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps.

If you’re going “light” and only eat:

• 25 small jelly beans
• 5 Peeps
• 1 medium (1 3/4 ounce) hollow chocolate bunny
• 1 Cadbury Creme Egg

you would rack up 730 calories and you will need to walk 7.3 miles, 11.77 kilometers, or 14,600 steps — assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps — to walk off that number of calories.  Sounds like a lot, but it’s very doable over a few days.

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