By Cathi Coppinger
Want to lose weight before you gain it over the holidays? Good luck!
More and more studies are finding that even light exercise like a 15-minute walk is good for you. But it doesn’t mean you’ll start dropping weight like crazy. Here are seven foods and how far you’d have to walk to burn them off.
WARNING: This is super depressing!
A can of Coke has 140 calories, so you’d have to walk 1.6 miles to burn it off. A Snicker’s bar has 215 calories, or a 2.4 mile walk. A Beef Chalupa Supreme from Taco Bell is 3.6 calories. You’d have to walk just over 4 miles. A Grande Caramel Frappucino from Starbucks has 410 calories or a 4.6 mile walk. And by the way, the calories are the same no matter what the cup design is!
A Big Mac has 540 calories, so that’s a 6.1 mile walk. Compared to 7.3 miles for a Whopper, which is 650 calories, or 12.5 miles for a Hot ‘n Juicy Triple Cheeseburger from Wendy’s, which is 1,110 calories. A Chipotle burrito with chicken is 1,050 calories or 11.8 miles. A Bloomin’ Onion from Outback Steakhouse is 1,954 calories. You’d have to walk just under 22 miles to burn it off…about four miles short of a marathon.
Are you bloomin’ kidding me?