In that part of the country where Geezer attempts to have a life, the weather outside is frightful: snow, snow, and then snow. Geezer is wondering if his former neighbor, the genial fellow whose snowblower always did such an excellent job, will drive 30 miles from his new home to clean Geezer's driveway. Probably not. And so Geezer has been attempting to determine exactly how much egg nog he will have to drink to provide the calories needed to shovel his driveway.
If the snow is not too heavy, Geezer can shovel 12 inches of snow covering his entire driveway in one hour. He knows that one hour of shoveling (do the math on the calories-burned calculator found here or use the short form here) burns about 455 calories. He also knows that one ounce of egg nog contains 43 calories (and 2.4 grams of fat). Voila! Geezer must drink about 10.5 ounces, or two smallish glasses of egg nogg to shovel his driveway without suffering a calorie deficit. Or, according to this chart, he could eat two-thirds of a Big Mac.
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Good luck with the shovel out. I used to own a house on a corner lot. Don’t ever buy a house on a corner lot if you don’t like snow shoveling.
Health Club?
We don’t need no stinking health club!
That calculator website is waaaay over estimating how many calories are burned for each activity. I know that at max speed on a bike I only burn about 600 cal/hr as my heart rate monitor calculates for me. I know that I burn 10 cal/min while running (er, jogging). I don’t think it’s helpful at all because of this.