{"id":1902,"date":"2011-12-31T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2016-07-31T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T18:56:42","slug":"why-trying-to-burn-off-food-is-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2011\/12\/why-trying-to-burn-off-food-is-a-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Why trying to ‘burn off’ food is a waste of time"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 30 Dec I tweeted: “All these people ‘walking off’ indulgence make me laugh – I’d have to walk to Bristol & back (54 miles) to counter a Duchy Xmas pudding!” “Oh & that doesn’t deduct the BMR calories I would have used anyway so make that to Bath and back!”<\/p>\n
Here’s the maths!<\/p>\n
One fairly small (5 inch diameter) Duchy Original Christmas pudding contains 2,839 calories (313 per 100g)<\/p>\n
We live 27 miles from Bristol. This site tells me <\/a>that a 110lb person would use up 1,482 calories in 9 hours walking 27 miles at 3 miles per hour. Hence I have to walk there and back to ‘use up’ over 2,800 calories.<\/p>\n