Will you be watching the big game? Maybe you’re more interested in the food than the game. Either way, according to the Calorie Control Council, the average game watcher chows down on about 1,200 calories worth of food and snacks on game day – Super Bowl Sunday is the second biggest eating day (right behind Thanksgiving).

Here are some exercises (some a little wacky) to burn off the game day food overload. The numbers are just estimates – there’s always a wide variety of calories in foods depending on who makes them and who dishes them out. And, people come in all different sizes, shapes, and metabolisms meaning that everyone burns off calories at a different rate.

The Exercises

• Running at a 6 mile per hour pace (10 minute mile) for a little under two hours will burn off about 1200 calories
• Pumping it out on an elliptical trainer for two hours – or doing seven hours of Pilates will also burn off around 1200 calories as will swimming or spinning (cycling) for two and a half hours.
• Drinking six bottles of Budweiser beer means needing to do “The Wave” 4, 280 times.

• One KFC extra crispy drumstick and an extra crispy chicken breast will require 203 end zone touchdown dances.
• A serving of Applebee’s chili cheese nachos would mean 159 minutes of playing non-stop professional football.
• Eating ten Lay’s classic potato chips with Kraft French onion dip means you have to dance to Madonna for 134 minutes.

• You’ll need a full hour of performing in a marching band to burn off a jalapeno popper made with cream cheese, cheddar cheese and bacon.

• To eradicate the calories in one deviled egg you’d need 12 continuous minutes of cheerleading. 

• One pig in a blanket (mini hot dog wrapped in dough) has about 66 calories. To burn off a serving of three you’d need to play catch for 68 minutes.

Enjoy the food. Enjoy the game.

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Will you be watching the big game? Maybe you’re more interested in the food than the game. Either way, according to the Calorie Control Council, the average game watcher chows down on about 1,200 calories worth of food and snacks on game day.

Here are some exercises (some a little wacky) to burn off the game day food overload. The numbers are just estimates – there’s always a wide variety of calories in foods depending on who makes them and who dishes them out. And, people come in all different sizes, shapes, and metabolisms meaning that everyone burns off calories at a different rate.

The Exercises

• Running at a 6 mile per hour pace (10 minute mile) for a little under two hours will burn off about 1200 calories
• Pumping it out on an elliptical trainer for two hours – or doing seven hours of Pilates will also burn off around 1200 calories as will swimming or spinning (cycling) for two and a half hours.
• Drinking six bottles of Budweiser beer means needing to do “The Wave” 4, 280 times.

• One KFC extra crispy drumstick and an extra crispy chicken breast will require 203 end zone touchdown dances.
• A serving of Applebee’s chili cheese nachos would mean 159 minutes of playing non-stop professional football.
• Eating ten Lay’s classic potato chips with Kraft French onion dip means you have to dance to Madonna for 134 minutes.

• You’ll need a full hour of performing in a marching band to burn off a jalapeno popper made with cream cheese, cheddar cheese and bacon.

• To eradicate the calories in one deviled egg you’d need 12 continuous minutes of cheerleading. 

• One pig in a blanket (mini hot dog wrapped in dough) has about 66 calories. To burn off a serving of three you’d need 68 minutes of playing catch.

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Will you be watching the big game? Maybe you’re more interested in the food than the game. Either way, according to the Calorie Control Council, the average game watcher chows down on about 1,200 calories worth of food and snacks on game day – Super Bowl Sunday is the second biggest eating day (right behind Thanksgiving).

Here are some exercises (some a little wacky) to burn off the game day food overload. The numbers are just estimates – there’s always a wide variety of calories in foods depending on who makes them and who dishes them out. And, people come in all different sizes, shapes, and metabolisms meaning that everyone burns off calories at a different rate.

The Exercises

• Running at a 6 mile per hour pace (10 minute mile) for a little under two hours will burn off about 1200 calories
• Pumping it out on an elliptical trainer for two hours – or doing seven hours of Pilates will also burn off around 1200 calories as will swimming or spinning (cycling) for two and a half hours.
• Drinking six bottles of Budweiser beer means needing to do “The Wave” 4, 280 times.
• One KFC extra crispy drumstick and an extra crispy chicken breast will require 203 end zone touchdown dances.
• A serving of Applebee’s chili cheese nachos would mean 159 minutes of playing non-stop professional football.

• Eating ten Lay’s classic potato chips with Kraft French onion dip means you have to dance to Madonna for 134 minutes
• You’ll need a full hour of performing in a marching band to burn off a jalapeno popper made with cream cheese, cheddar cheese and bacon.
• To eradicate the calories in one deviled egg you’d need 12 continuous minutes of cheerleading.

• One pig in a blanket (mini hot dog wrapped in dough) has about 66 calories. To burn off a serving of three you’d need to play catch for 68 minutes.

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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?  DocMikeEvans

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Stand up.

If you can, do it as much as possible.

According to Stand Up (more) & Eat (better), The Cooper Institute’s blog, you burn 33% more calories by standing instead of sitting.

What are you waiting for?

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According to Health Day TV there are some great outdoor ways to burn off a few of those extra calories you consumed – perhaps the ones left over from an indulgent 4^th of July barbecue.

For each hour of activity (caloric burn varies somewhat with your size and effort):

• Golf, walking with your clubs:  330 calories

• Leisurely bicycling under 10 miles per hour:  290 calories

• Bicycling over 10 miles per hour:  590 calories

• Leisurely walking:  280 calories

• Jogging at a 12 minute per mile pace:  590 calories

• Swimming slow freestyle laps:  510 calories

• Hiking:  370 calories

• Yard work:  330 calories

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Via: Medical Billing And Coding

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I love dogs and I love my hometown, New York City. Who says all city residents are Type A and harried?  Maybe we could learn a thing or two from our four legged friends who appear to be well fed, content,  and happy.

Pets can help to keep you healthy and certainly can be an incentive to go for a nice long walk.

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Fortunately, for them, they have knowledge and their skill in the kitchen at their disposal to make food more flavorful, perhaps downright delicious, while cutting back on the use of sugar, fat, and salt.

What The Slimmed Down Chefs Do

According to an article in The Daily News, what they do is:

• Reengineer their palates:  Richard Blais of Top Chef fame followed a vegan diet for 30 days to jump start his 60 pound weight loss.  He says it was a palate cleanser that made him aware of how sweet, fatty, and salty his food was.  Art Smith, Oprah’s former chef, lost 95 pounds by changing the way he ate – incorporating more whole foods, eating six meals a day, and making uncomplicated food, often following the same menu most days of the week.

• Eat smaller portions:  Aside from eating smaller meals more frequently, some chefs like Houston’s Ronnie Killen, who lost 215 pounds, eats four ounces of a 16 ounce steak and saves the rest for another meal.

• Find new ways to add flavor and devise new ways to add taste but not tons of calories:  New York City’s Michael Psilakis poaches garlic in olive oil and then adds the garlic to various foods to really punch up the flavor of lower calorie items like mussels and gigante beans.  Many of the chefs use onion, garlic, and many herbs and spices for flavor.

• Indulge occasionally (or have a planned cheat day):  Many of the chefs, like Art Smith, build in a cheat day or leave room in their calorie budget for the occasional indulgence by eating lighter meals and fewer calories in anticipation of the indulgence.

• Exercise:  almost all of the chefs move around more than they did.  New York’s Rocco Dispirito became a triathlete, but Art Smith, who has a rigorous workout routine, says he sometimes just blasts music and dances.

The Bottom Line

Whatever routine a chef follows, they all seem to have become aware of  portion sizes.  They’ve learned about calories and the overabundance of sugar, fat, and salt in many recipes.  And, they move more.  They do not deprive themselves.  They may restrict the amount of food that they eat – but they are eating whole food with good flavor and they’re making room for the occasional, not daily, indulgence.

Art Smith cautions that dessert is a treat. As he says, “If you have dessert every day, then it’s no longer a treat.”

Try following their strategies when you’re cooking at home – or even when ordering in a restaurant.

If we could just get more chefs to offer smaller portions of delicious and healthy whole foods in their restaurants and food companies to do the same with their prepared products it would be a whole lot easier to lose and/or maintain weight and to be mindful of portion size.

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There is a heck of a lot of snow outside.  I actually can’t open my kitchen door because of a gigantic snowdrift.  Many hours after the snow has deposited a foot and a half of whiteness (without the drifts), the guy who plows my driveway hasn’t been here yet because his truck broke down.

It also happens to be two days after Christmas.  I served lunch to twenty people on Christmas Day.  I have leftovers – lots of them – and most of them are not, by any stretch of the imagination, of the low calorie variety.

Being stuck inside with many leftovers in the fridge and a post-holiday slump leads to almost continuous nibbling and noshing.  What to do?

What To Do As The Caloric Intake Approaches Stratospheric

You can do lots of things, but some of them are just not happening – like not making any trips to the fridge or just sipping chicken broth!  Sometimes there’s just no choice and you just give in and eat – recognizing that you probably will feel like a slug – a very beefy slug – for several days post food frenzy.

You can counter with some activity. It does a lot for your mood and might use up some of those excess calories. Check out the calories you can burn with these winter activities.  These are for a 150 pound person. If you weigh more you’ll burn more calories, if you weigh less you’ll burn fewer calories.

Calories Burned Per Hour With Some Winter Activities

• Building a Snowman:   285 calories
• Having a Snowball Fight:   319 calories
• Making Snow Angels:   214 calories
• Snowshoeing:  544 calories
• Shoveling snow:   408 calories
• Baking cookies:  170 calories
• Sledding:  476 calories
• Cross country skiing:  612 calories

Bundle up and go have some fun!  The hot chocolate and cookies will taste even better.

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