This is just amazing.
According to my cycling software program, I’ve burned 76,000 calories so far this year. Thirty-seven weeks of 2005 have gone by, and I’ve blasted my way through 76,000 extra calories.
And that’s just on my bike. I’ve torched more calories than that, if you take my running, swimming, lifting, and everything else into account. Throw those in, and the total jumps to around 117,000 calories.
That really blows me away. I never thought to look at my cumulative total. 117,000 calories. Wow.
What is 117,000 calories, anyway?
- 117,000 calories is more than 33 pounds that I’ve NOT gained this year.
- 117,000 calories is 450 additional calories that I get to eat, every day. (Yeah!)
- 117,000 calories is 487 bags of M&Ms. (No, no, no . . . the little bags.)
- 117,000 calories is one extra meal a day, or 2-3 snacks a day.
- 117,000 calories is 130 sticks of butter . . . that are no longer sticking to me.
- 117,000 calories is one bookmark, 4 gold stars, and one “I’ve lost 25 pounds!” magnet. (You WW’ers know what I’m talking about.)
- 117,000 is 1,603 cups of oil-popped, buttered popcorn. (Or, 3774 cups of air-popped corn.)
- 117,000 calories is nearly half my total weight loss.
Behold, the power of moving your butt! It’s one of the most powerful forces on earth. ‘Tis far better, if you ask me, to burn an extra 450 calories a day, than to cut rations by that much. I may have mentioned before that I don’t do the deprivation thing. Keeping my butt in gear ensures that I get to eat enough to keep me happy.
So , please, do me a favor . . . The next time you think it’s not worth it to climb on the elliptical trainer for “only” 20 minutes or so, or you think it’s stupid to go out and do a 15-minute walk . . . Remember my 117,000 calories. Everything you do to move your butt adds up. Every single thing. No, you may not rack up the calories at the rate I do (it takes a true bicycling fanatic enthusiast to do that), but I assure you, it WILL make a difference. For example, if you’ve been earning a mere 2 Activity Points every day, you have burned an extra 50,000 calories so far this year. That’s more than 14 pounds.
Is that worth anything to ya?
Thought so.
What are you waiting for? Get moving.
More reading:
No Fat Chicks (from stumptuous.com)
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