Thanksgiving Meal Calories! And how much exercise needed to expend these calories?

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SPOILER ALERT! Reading on may hinder your enjoyment of the Thanksgiving holiday.  Read at your own risk! 

It’s time to endulge, it’s time to celebrate, it’s Thanksgiving!   It’s an American tradition to feast away on that last Thursday of November.  So how many calories are you consuming in just that Thanksgiving meal alone?  Let’s do some research on a typical meal and break it down using our very own Sweat Studio web app EFITX.  Our Thanksgiving meal will include:  Turkey, Cranberry Sauce, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Stuffing, Cornbread,  Corn, Peas, Pumpkin Pie, and Red Wine.

6 oz. TURKEY

Eat  just the breasts?  NOOOO!  It’s Thanksgiving, let’s eat a leg or a thigh including the skin!  348 calories. Mmmmmm Gravy 2oz = 30 calories.  How about a bit of cranberry sauce? 2 oz. = 86 calories.  Total = 464 calories

1 cup MASHED POTATOES = 256 calories, Mmmmm more gravy! 2 oz= 30 calories, Total = 286 calories.

1 cup SWEET POTATOES = 204 calories, this is plain sweet potatoes with no additives.

2 oz. STUFFING = 216 calories,  Kraft stove top mix.

3 oz. CORNBREAD = 225 calories

½ cup CORN =  67 calories

½ cup PEAS = 63 calories

6 oz. PUMPKIN PIE = 414 calories  (what? no whip? Don’t worry you’ll get whipped later, by your personal trainer, haha.)

8 oz. RED WINE = 192 calories (1 glass is that all really?)

Thanksgiving Meal = 2,131 calories

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Thanksgiving meal ONLY when compared to the RDA attributes of a person eating 2000 calories per day. Using Efitx.com

HOW MUCH EXERCISE NEEDED TO EXPEND THIS MEAL?

We can calculate the amount of exercise needed to expend this meal.   Now, don’t be fooled by most wearables!  Although wearables are  great for scoring points and evaluating  your effort day by day, they are still lacking accuracy for calculating true calorie expenditure.   Currently your best device (available to the public ) to calculate calorie expenditure  is a heart rate monitor.  So based on our Sweat Studio heart rate monitor statistics and other sources we can determine the following approximations:

Heart Rate at: 65 to 75% THR ( typically between 130 to 150 bpm depending on your age)

Type of exercise: Run, Run-Walk, Elliptical, Stair Climber,  anything equivalent that will sustain an average of  65 to 75% heart rate.

  • Body Weight: 100 lbs to 120 lbs,   6 hours, 30 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 121 lbs to 140 lbs,   5 hours, 35 min= 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 141 lbs to 160 lbs,   4 hours,  50 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 161 lbs to 180 lbs,   4 hours, 10 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 181 lbs to 200 lbs,   3 hours, 45 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 201 lbs to 220 lbs,   3 hours, 20 min= 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 221 lbs to 240 lbs,   3 hours, 8 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 241 lbs to 260 lbs,   2 hours, 55 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 261 lbs to 280 lbs,   2 hours, 40 min = 2,131 calories
  • Body Weight: 281 lbs to 300 lbs,   2 hours, 30 min = 2,131 calories

–          John

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