How Much Food Cost you in Exercise

How often have you been a little hungry and just stopped at a fast food restaurant for a quick little piece of food to hold yourself over?

Take a look at those fries in the picture above. It's a large fry from Wendys. Know how much exercise you'd have to do to burn off the calories that you just consumed from those fries? 77 minutes of biking at 10-12 mph.

Those fries have 540 calories in them.

Take a look here for info on other exercise costs for fast food.

And keep these in mind the next time you pull up to the drive thru.

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2,473-Calorie Popcorn

The new Yankee Stadium opened up for it's first game last week (and I'll admit, I smiled when I saw that they got killed 10-2 by Cleveland that day).

I've wrote in the past about a 4,800 calorie burger here, and also some other horribly high calorie foods sold at ballparks here.

This article talks about how one of it's items on the menu is a bucket of popcorn that has a calorie count of 2,473. You pay $12 for that thing and as the author of the article states, it looks more like a tank of popcorn rather than a bucket.

From the article:

That’s the thing about the new Yankee Stadium: Not only is it the biggest, the newest, the most expensive and the self-described best – the homage to everything that was America – it gets away with it, charm intact, for one simple reason.

The New York Yankees are unapologetic in their embrace of that culture. They are the canyon of popcorn and the 1,410-calorie plate of nachos and the 1,360-calorie bag of peanuts and the 1,341-calorie cup of cheese fries, and their fans are still begging for a heart attack.

But back to that popcorn. The thing about popcorn is that you can just sit there and eat and eat and eat and eat it and never feel like you're full. So when someone buys it, they just think "I'm sharing this with someone and we won't finish the whole thing." But the next thing you know, it's time for the 7th inning stretch and the entire popcorn "tank" in empty.

I guess the skies are the limit on where we are going to take the gorging of all this food consumption in our culture.

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The Perfect Diet

So what's the perfect diet to be on to lose body fat?

Turns out, there isn't one. This article talks about a recent study that shows that the type of diet that people were on came out with basically the same results in the end.

From the article:

The kind of diet doesn't matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, according to a federal study that followed people for two years. However, participants had trouble staying with a single approach that long and the weight loss was modest for most.

So the key seems to be not the type of eating your doing (low carb, low fat, carrot diet, etc), it's that you stick with it. That's where I think we run into some issues as it seems to me that's the hardest part for people: sticking to it for more than a couple of weeks.

I had written back a while ago here on how the number of diets out there are really making it confusing for people.

I'll admit, in the past I've been a pretty ardent supporter of low-carb diets because they've worked for me. But, I've loosened up a bit lately and opened up to other possibilities that work just as well, and it seems that a study like this is helping me realize that even more.

Bottom line, try out a couple of diets and see which one works for you and stick with it. Or, maybe an even better route is to take a few diets and cycle through them. Do one diet for a month, then another diet for another month, then another one a month after that, and then swing through all three of them again. That way you keep the variety going and you don't get bored (because chances are, when you start getting bored with a diet, that's when the trip through the candy aisle occurs).

A final note that should be mentioned about the study that I think is really important was that the people on the diets got social support throughout the study. Meaning, you're going to have more success losing that weight when you work with others. Don't try to do this alone. Get together with some friends and do it together and look up a nutritionist to consult with on a recurring basis.

On that same note, I'm currently using myself as a guinea pig on a new diet I found. Although it's really not a diet. More to come on that in the following weeks so stay tuned.

Have a good weekend.


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Trying to Find Healthy Fast Food

Okay fine, we've all been there where we just can't help the circumstances (or at least that is what we tell ourselves...) of stopping at a fast food place for a bite to eat. Maybe you're traveling, got home unexpectedly late from work, whatever.

This article TRIES to give you some tips on how to get through a fast food meal without completely going over the top.

I guess they work in an emergency, but that's about as far as I'm going to go with an endorsement. It's still just jaw-dropping the amount of calories that are in that stuff (even with the modifications) and how quickly you can eat it AND actually feel hungry again about 30 minutes after you're done.

On a related note, I guess if i really did have to give an endorsement to a fast food place I'd have to give it to Subway. Last summer it seemed I was addicted to that Oven Roasted Chicken Breast sub....

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