Super Bowl Smackdown: Food vs. Fitness

How much exercise will you need to do in order to burn off those Super Bowl snacks?

We know that eating junk food is bad for our diets, but many times we just ignore this fact on Super Bowl Sunday. It’s our one day to dig in and eat all the snacks we want. But take into consideration the following statistics, and maybe you’ll think twice about that second round of snacks tomorrow.

Honey BBQ chicken wings (Pizza Hut) | Serving: 2 wings | 220 calories, 8g fat

Chips and Guacamole (Qdoba) | Serving: 8 oz. | 730 calories, 40g fat

Bud Light | Serving: 1 beer | 110 calories

Rum and Coke | Serving: 1 drink | 369 calories

Potato Chips (Lay Wavy Original) | Serving: 11 chips | 160 calories, 10g fat

Pigs in a Blanket | Serving: 4 | 265 calories, 20g fat

Pulled Pork | Serving: 1 sandwich | 450 calories, 18g fat

Brie Cheese Appetizer | Serving: ½ cup | 401 calories, 20g fat

Chili (Chili’s) | Serving: 1 bowl | 360 calories | 360 calories, 20g fat

Meatballs | Serving: 1 meatball | 150 calories, 12g fat

Supreme Pizza (Pizza Hut) | Serving: 1 pizza | 2,320 calories, 88g fat

The calculations for activity times are based off a male (5’10”, 215 pounds) and a female (5’4” 170 pounds). To figure out exactly how many calories these would be for you, head over to the diet tracker.

Tags : Amanda Ingle Calories Diet Fitness Lee Hersh Snacks

Comments

Keeon said on 2/4/2012 at 12:18 PM,

Well if you workout and eat smart let Superbowl Sunday be your cheat day. In other words, if during the week you have been eating healthy let the Sunday be a day where your reward day because you deserve. On the other hand if you have not been eating healthy and plan on eating chips, wings and everything else then know that you have your work cut out for you the next week.

Kathleen Searles said on 2/4/2012 at 12:21 PM,

They are saying that Super Bowl Sunday is the second biggest "eating" day of the year after Thanksgiving!! Interestingly enough, sales of 2 healthy foods, avocados and carrots, also boom for Super Bowl. So a lot of us are choosing healthy things too! Here's my "tweet" on that subject from yesterday:
Super sales of carrots for Super Bowl Sunday...who knew!
http://goo.gl/IqgZO

N/A said on 2/5/2012 at 5:01 AM,

You know, sports is fun and watch your diet is obviously very important. If you apply 80% 20% and that way I mean. Stick to your exercise and diet but sometimes it's okay to sin.