{"id":3296,"date":"2019-12-13T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:41:37","slug":"christmas-is-coming-and-you-may-just-get-fat-never-mind-the-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/christmas-is-coming-and-you-may-just-get-fat-never-mind-the-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is coming and you may just get fat \u2013 never mind the goose!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The cake is cooked and decorated, and the mince pies are cooling on the rack ready to be frozen ready for the big Christmas blowout. That’s just the start. So much food will be chomped over a short period of time. You’re looking forward to it, aren’t you? They’ll be a load of choccies, sweeties too and lots of people to visit and eat with. Every home will be busting with goodies, and you intend to get your share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trying\nto compete with the fat man in the red suit?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spare\na thought for your waistline and your overloaded and abused-by-food\nbody. It is not a rubbish bin. Christmas can be fun without busting\nyour gut \u2013 literally! No, you don’t agree? Well, come back and tell\nus that in January when you are trying desperately to lose the\nweight, you piled on over the festive season. Not to mention the\nspots that are popping up all over your face because you ate too much\nsugar. You won’t be so confident then, will you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okay,\nthat was too serious<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nGo\nahead, enjoy your Christmas, eat your food and make merry with a few\ndrinks. We are not trying to be the new Grinch. Christmas is to be\nenjoyed however you chose. But and this is an important ‘but’, make\nsure you do some active stuff as well \u2013 and not just lifting your\nright arm, or walking from your armchair to the kitchen\u2026 they don’t\ncount. We mean get really active, so you burn off some of those\ncalories before they settle forever on your hips or waistline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get\nactive \u2013 really go for it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even\nif you stagger out of the door and go for a walk from time to time,\nyou’ll do your body and your brain a favour, but we suggest some\nreally active stuff. Chances are you’ll get back home so hungry,\nyou’ll stuff your face again, but at least you made an effort and\nburnt a few calories in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggested\nfat-burning activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAINTBALL\u00a0– 3500 calories<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>for roughly six hours of paintball. Paintball includes three different exercises: sprinting, running, and walking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MOUNTAIN\nBIKING<\/a><\/strong> –\n528 calories<\/strong> for\none hour of mountain biking, or tackling moderately tough terrain.\nThat’s based on 145-lb. woman. This amount increases for higher\nweights and decreases for lower body weights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GO-KARTING<\/a>\u00a0OR\u00a0RALLY DRIVING<\/a>\u00a0– 900 calories<\/strong>\u00a0for one hour of go-karting and in fact this applies to rally driving too. You don’t just ‘sit’ in a car or kart. There is a lot of body movement as you tackle the circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CLIMBING\nOR BOULDERING<\/a><\/strong> –\n500 to 900 calories <\/strong>per\nhour climbing or bouldering. You need to be actively climbing in that\ntime, or your calorie burn will be on the lower side of the\ncalculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AXE\nTHROWING<\/a><\/strong> –\n176 to 204 calories <\/strong>an\nhour <\/strong>If\nyou weigh 155 pounds and 180 pounds respectively, axe throwing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those\ncalories are just when you are actively taking part in your chosen\nactivity. Because once you get your body going, you’ll keep burning\ncalories hours after the event when you’re relaxing, or even eating\nagain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get\nthe kids involved. Despite what you may think, they love to get out\nand do stuff over the festive period and not just sit and stare at\nscreens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nCJ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cake is cooked and decorated, and the mince pies are cooling on the rack ready to be frozen ready for the big Christmas blowout. That’s just the start. So much food will be chomped over a short period of time. You’re looking forward to it, aren’t you? They’ll be a load of choccies, sweeties… Read More Christmas is coming and you may just get fat \u2013 never mind the goose!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,66],"tags":[36,694,680,820,809,810],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-christmas-gifts","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-gifts-for-adventurers","tag-christmas-presents","tag-excercise","tag-health","tag-healthandwellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}