This fast food calculator can determine exactly how long you should workout after indulging in your favorite meal, such as a Big Mac
and fries from McDonald's (pictured)
...calculations done mainly on fast food meals
...taking a second look at guilty pleasures
The online tool, created by healthy living website Home Remedy Shop,
uses a mathematical equation and nutritional information from eight
popular chains to work out how much exercise you need to do to burn off
the junk food calories.
To
use the calculator, enter your weight in pounds, and then choose your
meal one of eight fast food outlets: Starbucks, Burger King, McDonald's,
Chipotle, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, Subway and Wendy's.
It tots up the total calorie content for your choice, and gives the amount of time you'd need to spend working out to burn it off.
It
gives eight different workout options for each: yoga, running,
walking, strength training, dancing, rollerblading, cardio equipment and
biking.
The online tool, created by Home
Remedy Shop, calculates the length of time you need to spend doing
various activities, such as running or lifting wights, to burn off a
fast food meal, using a mathematical equation and the nutrition data
from eight popular fast food restaurants. Above, how long it takes to
burn off a 1,330 calorie Big Mac meal - and the equivalent foods
For a Subway 12' meatball marinara
sandwich and a diet Coke (pictured) worth 960 calories, you're looking
at running for 1 hour and 49 minutes
For a 12-inch meatball marinaras from
Subway, you would need to do four hours and 31 minutes of yoga or
strength training to beat the bulge
The calculator also tells you the number of vegetables you could have eaten for the same number of calories.
The average UK woman weighs 11st 2lbs (156lbs), while the average US woman weighs 166.2lbs (11st 12lbs).
Based
on these weights it would take a UK woman just over seven hours of yoga
and strength training burn off a Double Whopper with Cheese and Large
French Fries from Burger King.
She
could also do four hours and 41 minutes of dancing, two hours and 48
minutes of running, five hours and 32 minutes of walking, two hours 38
minutes of biking or three hours 31 minutes of rollerblading to burn off
the 1,490 calories feast.
Alternatively, she could hit the gym for two hours and 38 minutes on cardio equipment such as a treadmill or exercise bike.
A Burger King Double Whopper Sandwich with cheese and medium french fries, without a drink, contains a whopping 1,400 calories
To burn off a Burger King meal,
Whopper with cheese as above, would take four hours 24 minutes of
dancing, or six and a half hours of yoga
The average US woman would need to do six hours and 35 minutes of yoga or strength training; four hours and 24 minutes of dancing; two hours and 38 minutes of running; five hours and 12 minutes of walking; or two hours and 28 minutes of biking and three hours and 18 minutes of rollerblading.
Or she could spend two hours and 28 minutes on cardio equipment.
Even
though the average US woman is around 10lbs heavier than the average UK
woman, she will need to do slightly less exercise to burn off fast
food.
Body
size is one factor that influences your metabolic weight, so regardless
of whether you're heavier due to muscle or fat, the larger you are the
faster you'll burn calories compared to someone who is smaller than
you.
Body size is one factor that
influences your metabolic weight, so regardless of whether your weight
is due to muscle or fat, the larger you are the faster you'll burn
calories compared to someone who is smaller than you
A Glazed donut with a large latte with almond milk large from Dunkin Donuts will add up to about 420 calories
To burn off a Dunkin Donuts glazed
donut with a large latte with almond milk would take an hour of
rollerskating or nearly 47 minutes of running
A Chipotle chicken burrito with brown
rice, black beans, tomato salsa, sour cream, cheese and guacamole and a
side of nachos and guacamole will mean you have to under take six hours
36 minutes of dancing to burn it off
For a Subway 12'' meatball marinara sandwich and a Diet Coke worth 960 calories, the average UK woman is looking at running for 1 hour and 49 minutes.
While
a chicken burrito with brown rice, black beans, tomato salsa, sour
cream, cheese and guacamole and a side of nachos and guacamole from
Chipotle will mean you have to under take six hours 36 minutes of
dancing to burn it off.
To
estimate the amount of activity needed to burn off the calories from a
fast food meal, Home Remedy Shop used a well-known equation that takes
into account the energy cost of different exercises as well as a
person's weight and the amount of time they perform each exercise.
The
tool also provided a variety of work outs for standard fast food meals,
based on the weight of the average American man and woman.
A Frappucino from Starbucks, the
sugary, iced coffee drink, would be burned off with 38 minutes on the
cardio machine, if you opt for the large, plain coffee option
To work off the 350 calories from your Starbucks Frappucino, you would need to run for 40 minutes
For
the static graphics found on this page, Home Remedy used the average
weight of an American male and female to determine the amount of time
needed to perform each exercise.
Gender-specific
exercise amounts are based solely on the average weight of a man and
woman and do not take into account factors such as body fat and muscle.
WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS SAY
Personal trainer Justin Maguire of FE Fitnes said: 'Doing weight training you won't burn as many calories as you would on a spinning bike.
'But although you won't burn as many calories your metabolism will have increased exponentially due to the muscle wastage and there's greater turnover of energy and that effect goes on afterwards.
'People tend to focus on "how many calories do I burn when I exercise", but they don't look at the effect on metabolism. With weight training you increase the metabolic rate by up to 30 per cent and you burn more calories after the session.
Justin
says if you do a strenuous weights exercise the day before a fast food
splurge you will have an increased the metabolism by 20 per cent, and
that's 400 extra calories burned off already.'
He said: 'For people who don't go to the gym or do loads of exercise; junk food inflames the bowel and the pressure of the wheat and gluten causes inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.
'Basic
stretches on the mat in front of the TV held for up to a minute makes a
huge difference and will increase circulation and blood flow to aid
digestion.'
Ollie Laver, lead trainer at NetWOD Fitness which is an online HIIT class provider with live and pre-recorded classes added: 'HIIT or High Intensity interval training is a great way to burn more calories in less time.
'Doing
30 minutes of HIIT training will be more efficient than training at a
more sustained and moderate pace for a longer period of time (i.e.
jogging).'
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