Further musings on diet and exercise

More reasons why losing weight takes dedication:

• One Polish sausage (without the bun) is about 330 calories.
• A 200-pound man running one mile consumes about 120 calories. Therefore to erase just one such sausage from your waistline requires running for 2¾ miles!
• To lose an entire pound requires burning or refraining from eating 3,500 calories.
• Losing one pound just through exercise alone thus takes 29 miles of running!
• On the other hand, losing one pound in a week through diet alone requires cutting out 500 calories a day - the equivalent of skipping an entire meal!

These last two bullets illustrate why effective weight loss requires both diet and exercise. Now think of how many miles you'd have to run to burn off each of these foods:

Food Item	"Burn-off" Distance
Slice of cheddar cheese	¾ mile
Can of soda	1¼ miles
Polish sausage, no bun	2¾ miles
Pizza My Heart slice of pepperoni-mushroom	4½ miles
6 Buffalo wings	5¼ miles
Half rotisserie chicken	5½ miles
Slice of lasagna	5¾ miles
McDonald's Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese	6 miles
California Pizza Kitchen BBQ chicken pizza	7 miles
Carl's Jr. Six-Dollar Burger	8 miles
Wendy's Classic Triple with Cheese	8 miles
In-N-Out Burger #1 meal with Diet Coke	9 miles
Outback Steakhouse Melbourne Porterhouse (20 oz.)	10 miles
IHOP country-fried steak and eggs	13 miles
72-oz. T-bone: Texas steakhouse challenge (one hour and it's free)	52 miles

So scarfing down that 72-ounce T-bone in an hour or less is free. Un-scarfing it of course is definitely not free!