The calories in your Christmas dinner revealed… and you’ll need to run TWO marathons to burn them off
The average person eating as many as 5,240 calories on Christmas Day splurging on turkey and all the trimmings
DO you know how many calories are in your Christmas dinner?
We all like to splurge on turkey and all the trimmings when the big day arrives with the average person eating as many as 5,240 calories on your festive blowout, including snacks and booze.
To burn that off you would need to run TWO marathons.
On average a marathon runner burns 2,600 calories over 26.2 mile course – that’s around 100 calories a mile.
If you’d rather cycle off your roasties you’ll need to hop on your bike for 109 miles, burning an average of 48 calories per mile.
Gym goers will need to spend nine hours working out, burning 590 calories an hour, and if you’d rather jump in the pool you’ll need to a front crawl for 13 hours.
Over the festive period the average person puts on around four pounds just between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.
It’s not difficult to see why – many people will gorge on more than twice their recommended daily calories intake in one sitting.
Even the smallest things can add on to your calorie intake.
Lee Smith, Forza Supplements managing director, said: “The problem most dieters have is they tend to ‘write off’ Christmas and go right over the top - not just on Christmas dinner but all the endless nibbles which are brought out between meals.
“We all want to have fun at Christmas but the best way to maintain a bit of discipline is to look at the hours or exercise you will have to carry out to burn off their calories.
“When dieters realise you have to run a half marathon to work off the calories consumed having Christmas pudding and cheese, they might just think it is worth calling it day after the turkey.”
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