How to Work Off Thanksgiving Calories

Source: How to Work Off Thanksgiving Calories

If you're worried about devouring a huge Thanksgiving meal and what that will mean to your waistline, have no fear. You can have your cake - I mean pie - and eat it too, you just have to get moving afterward. Check out the calorie amounts for your favorite Thanksgiving foods and find out some ways you can work off those tasty calories.

1. 6 oz. mulled wine is about 156 calories - Swimming laps doing the crawl stroke for 16 minutes will burn 158 calories*
2. 4 oz. white turkey meat is about 153 - 22 minutes of a friendly game of touch football burns 158 calories
3. 4 oz. dark turkey meat is about 183 - Sneak away for a 20-minute run and burn 189 calories
4. One cup mashed potatoes is about 237 - Burn 243 calories by walking briskly for one hour
5. 1/4 cup gravy is about 105 - 26 minutes of heavy cleaning burns 105 calories. Here's a 40-minute treadmill workout to burn off the mashed potatoes with gravy combo.


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6. 1/2 cup sweet potatoes with marshmallows is about 294 - Doing 66 minutes of fast-paced yoga burns 296 calories
7. One cup stuffing is about 202 - A 23-minute bike ride at a moderate pace will burn 207 calories
8. 1 slice of apple pie is about 411 - Hiking for an hour and four minutes will burn off 413 dessert calories
9. 1 slice of pumpkin pie is about 316 - Turn on some tunes and have a dance party in your living room for just over an hour and burn 317 calories
10. 1 slice of pecan pie is about 503 - If there's snow on the ground where you live, you'll burn 504 calories snowshoeing for an hour and 10 minutes


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