Posted on December 02, 2014 by Jenny Cromack

Most people know, the average individual will gain weight over Christmas, but how many calories do you eat on Christmas Day? Are you ready for it…..the numbers may shock you! Here is a timetable which shows a typical day and how many calories you eat on Christmas Day.

This in excess of 7,000 calories consumed on Christmas Day. Look at the scary amounts of calories in Christmas Dinner (1,450), Christmas Pudding (1,174) and all the chocolates and biscuits you will eat (1,940). What is worrying is that breakfast only makes up 135 calories!!! And we are not quite sure that the alcohol on this example is even correct – personally I think it’s underestimated!

Last December the Daily Mail published a great article Click here for the full article, the shocking points were as follows:

• The average household will consume 7000 calories on Christmas day (almost 3 times the daily amount for a male)
• Of these calories almost one third will be consumed before Christmas dinner! Most of these will come in the form of alcohol, chocolate and festive snacks.

In 2013 the Huffington Post published the following article, Click here for the full article, with the following points.

• 31% of the people they polled consumed over 8000 calories on Christmas day alone!
• The average person took 4 months to drop the christmas period weight….eeeek!

The Telegraph published an even more terrifying article. Click here for the full article:

• The average person will gain 6lbs between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

Now obviously, we don’t expect you to be Saints on Christmas day, but in no way is it necessary to consume that amount of calories! Consuming 8000 calories will require a tremendous amount of effort to remove from your body. Have a read of Jen’s recent calories v exercise blog, to find out the price in hours of your indulgence.

Assuming that you burn 400 calories in a personal training session that is 20 hours of INTENSE exercise to burn off the indulgence of Christmas day! Simply cutting out a few of those evil foods on Christmas will literally save you hours of hard work! More smoked salmon and scrambled eggs please!

If your panicing at this point…. fear not we’ve got you covered check out our christmas survival guide

Have a good healthy festive season!