If you are hoping to survive the Ester holiday weight gain, you will need to take action!
Easter Eggs and hot cross buns are everywhere and it can be hard to resist the chocolatey and buttery yumminess.
We encourage you to try not to indulge until it is actually Easter, which means that that bag of tiny eggs you have in your desk drawer needs to go into the rubbish, right now!
Remember that the caloric value of a single, small milk chocolate bunny would take an hour of treadmill running to burn off – how attractive is that bunny now?
Three mini Easter eggs contain more than 500kJ and let’s be honest, who can stop at three? Generally speaking, once we open a packet, we eat the packet. This is often true for Easter buns as well. A traditional small Easter bun contains just 600kJ compared to the mega chocolate chip varieties, and that is without the butter!
Where possible, look for portion controlled treats – small, individual, eggs rather than an entire bag of minis, and a packet of buns to share rather than to keep at home. When it comes to food, especially sweet foods, if they are around you will want to eat them, so the fewer Easter treats you keep at home, the better.
More than anything, we suggest to go for quality over quantity. Enjoy a social Easter feast with plenty of good food and a small amount of good quality chocolate, and use the extra holiday days to embrace your training program to make sure that you survive Easter without that extra couple of kilos.
Still looking for chocolate? If you translate your Easter calories into workout unit the treats may not seem so appealing:
Eggs Selection kJ Fat Exercise units
200g Easter Bunny 3740kJ 50g fat 2hrs of running
2 Caramello Eggs 500kJ 6g fat 15 min rowing
1 Crème Egg 718kJ 6g fat 45 min fast walking
100g Deluxe Bunny 2270kJ 33g fat 2 cycle classes
3 mini eggs 560kJ 7.5g fat 15 min skipping
Small hot cross bun (no butter) 600kJ 2g fat 30 min swimming
Large hot cross bun with butter 1200kJ 10g fat 30 min jogging
Choc chip hot cross bun 1100kJ 9g fat 1 Zumba class
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