For all those out gym rats out there who think you can exercise off a bad diet, you may need to rethink that strategy :) The average 30-45 minute exercise session burns roughly 300 calories. You can't even burn off a child size happy meal with that. A child's happy meal is 640 calories. For the average overweight person, they are eating a lot more than a happy meal to cause their current condition. Even if they exercise every day for 45 min, they won't even come close to burning off the calories to make up for the bad eating habits. Let's say that is the only bad thing they ate that day (above their maintenance calorie level), and they burned their 300 calories thru exercise. There are still 340 calories left that did not get burned off. If you did that every day that would be 10,200 extra calories or 2.9 lbs gained in a month. And that is for nothing more than a happy meal. Something to think about! Here is a funny but very perfect video to demonstrate this :) Enjoy!
I absolutely agree with you! There's SO much more to it than calories-in vs. energy out. People's metabolisms are different and they burn it off differently. I enjoyed the video!! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat visual...But oh crap!...Now I am craving pepperoni pizza! :-)
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