Who loves pie? ME! Marie Callenders makes some pretty delicious pies. Yesterday, we had a pie eating contest which I decided to partake in… mostly because I wanted a piece of pie… and also because I own at eating pies. However, was it worth it?

I looked up the nutrition facts of the pie I ate.  A Marie Callender’s pumpkin pie has a whopping 3,037 calories in it. Check out the breakdowns:

In an effort to prevent all of that from going straight to my derriere, I decided to go swimming. I swam for about half an hour, doing 12 laps (half freestyle, half breaststroke) in my 25 yard pool? I gave myself a pat on the back thinking I had done a decent job.

WRONG! If I ate a whole pumpkin pie and gained 3,037 calories, weighing a little under 100 lbs. (so I rounded up), according to this fitness calculator, I would have needed to swim a total of 6 hours… and that would be 6 hours of VIGOROUS swimming. I’m no Michael Phelps and for me to do six hours of swimming… well…. let’s just say good thing I only really accomplished eating half of my pie thus my needing to swim vigorously for - YAY - only three hours!

There are other excercises you can do that burn more calories within that same hour time frame. Running seems to be a sure fire way to burn it off. Especially running up stairs. Get a stairmaster and watch a movie while excercising. It makes it go by much faster.

I’m definitely not discouraging eating entire pies, in fact, I say do it! However, be prepared to roll up your sleeves for a hard days worth of working out.

I wonder how many calories you burn riding ponies.

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