Check the numbers

[purpletigron]

The energy value of a 45g bar of milk chocolate is about 550 Calories (2 MJ), enough energy to run about 8 km (5 miles) in about 45 min.

Comments

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Good job I don't eat chocolate then!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Heh :-) I ration myself to 100 g of plain Fairtrade Organic per week ... which costs 20p per day. (Can you tell that I'm doing a lesson plan on the human organism for my GCSE class?!)

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

I am the Woman Who Wasn't a Chocoholic. I bear the shame of the stigma as best I can, but actually, I can go for months without eating chocolate. I like it, I just don't eat it much.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Ah, that old 'chocolate or sex' question :-)

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That's a lot. We rarely eat chocolate, but tomorrow's one of those exceptions. T claims that I "never" make dessert (which is a lie, but it's true that dessert is not something I usually make), but I'm making a choc-peanut butter cake with choc icing for his birthday celebration tomorrow. But I am in no condition to run anything, never mind the marathon that would be necessary to work it off...

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Apart from my super-dooper blackberry-and-apple crumble, I only make desserts on special occasions these days.

Stephen Walsh didn't hurt his hero-hood in my book when he suggested that eating 100g of dark chocolate per week could contribute to good health :-)

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha!

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

It's a long time since I ran 8km in 45 minutes! Nearly 14 years in fact, when we did it about three times a week at boot camp.

One of the most depressing aspects of using exercise equipment in the gym is converting the 'calories burned' display into some readily comprehensible equivalent such as doughnuts. It is one hell of a lot quicker to eat one than it is to burn it off!

One of the things I now do re chocolate is to apply Larry Niven's dictum of making sure that if you are trying to control calories, make sure that the ones you eat are really nice. In other words, if you're going to scoff some chocolate, make sure that it's Lindt or Green and Black's rather than some cheap and nasty crud!

MC

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yes! We had a bar of really good dark choc in the freezer for several months. Once in a while, we'd break off a square and eat it slowly. T preferred to pop the whole thing and let it melt in his mouth; I preferred to snap it into teeny pieces and eat them one at a time over about an hour. It's amazing how satisfying it was - more, even, that indulging in a larger amount, because it was a rare and truly savoured thing.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

And here I am, having just made a ridiculous chocolate cake (plus extra choc chips) with peanut butter icing for T's birthday celebration over the weekend.

Oh well, at least it's not an everyday thing.