When the hurley burley’s done, when the meal was almost fun, how will you walk off the roughly 1,240 calories in a Thanksgiving feast? A particularly obsessive weight watcher might start with About.com’s Thanksgiving calorie calculator, which comes equipped with calorie to walking distance converter, all the better to reveal the frightening number of steps, miles, or kilometers that one has to walk to get back to ground zero.
Or, gentle readers could follow Geezer’s time and space tested method of calorie to energy conversion.
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Whew! I’m glad I read the link and saw that the real thing is about 5,000 calories. It’s not the components, it’s the recipes. Everything is prepared with sugar, butter or fat. Might as well skip to the dessert, because it’s all dessert in disguise.
I don’t think one day’s pigout really makes any difference. It’s the Halloween through New Year’s eating season that will do you in.
But if it’s an excuse for a long walk, before, after, and I’ve even done during after helping myself to one plate of modest portions, walking is good. Walking is our friend.