RodrigoPeres.com: Christmas EXTRA Calories

What a shame, Xmas seems like a long time ago now... some people might be glad!

Did you know that over Christmas we can eat roughly three to four times more food than we actually need and I am not even talking about New Year’s eve/day.

Christmas parties are weighed down with HIGH-FAT nibbles. It's perfectly possible to blow a whole day's recommended calorie consumption in just half an hour's grazing.

Below is a list of some of the traditional Christmas food/drinks. (don't forget, you might have had 2-5x the portion below)

1 portion of chocolate log (30g) - 101 Kcal

Portion of Crisps - 60 Kcal

Handful of mixed Nuts - 243 Kcal

1 Slice Christmas Cake - 249 Kcal

1 Mince Pie and Double Cream - 370 Kcal

1 portion Christmas pudding (100g), custard and brandy butter - 587 Kcal

1 glass of mulled wine - 245 Kcal

Glass White Wine (medium) - 130 Kcal

Glass Red Wine - 119 Kcal

Guinsess - 210 Kcal

Shandy - 156 Kcal

Bud ice - 227 Kcal

Fosters ice - 210 Kcal

Stella - 256 Kcal

CHRISTMAS DINNER +/- 956 Kcal

By the way, I haven't included Breakfast in the list and with just the nibble and dinner alone, you could have consumed easily 5000 calories in total this Christmas. You could have easily consumed 3x the daily recommended calorie intake!

How much do you have to do to BURN 5000 Kcal?

Just for a quick reference:

Exercise: Running

Distance: 5K (outdoors)

Duration: 30min

Calories: Only +/-240 Kcal

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Exercise: Swimming

Intensity: Moderate

Duration: 30min

Calories: Only +/-170 Kcal

Calories vary from person to person. Weight, height, fitness level, training HR, how efficient your body can burn calories (FAT) etc…

A few hours of nibbles (stored as fat) can easily turn into days, weeks or even months of training just to burn the Xmas calories. You have to remember one thing, whatever you do, make sure you are burning from FAT and not losing muscle otherwise you will compromise your metabolic rate and it will become even more difficult to burn fat efficiently.

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