Don’t Let Those Chocolate Easter Bunnies Go to Your Hips
Easter is fast approaching and so are the chocolate easter bunnies, chocolate eggs, marshmellow bunnies, etc. I have clients who have already gotten into trouble by buying these goodies to get a “head start” for Easter. Once the bag of chocolate eggs are in your house, it can be difficult to keep the bag closed until Easter.
One of my fondest memories as a child was Easter. My siblings and I
were each designated a room in the house. We would wake up in the morning and search “our room” for chocolate eggs, bunnies, peeps, jellybeans, etc. (Perhaps this fueled my chocolate obsession as an adult!). I remember having tons of chocolate goodies that lasted me for weeks.
While overconsuming chocolate in childhood is not the best idea, it can be even worse for an adult. Our metabolisms are much slower and it can take hours and hours of exercise to burn off the calories in a chocolate bunny! (one large chocolate bunny for 1050 calories = 2 hours of running or 4 hours of brisk walking)
Tips to control your Easter candy intake:
1.The lowest calorie candies are those made from marshmellow versus chocolate.
2. Don’t buy the candy too early. Wait until the day before Easter to make your purchase. The longer they are sitting in front of you, the greater your chances of indulging.
3. Keep them out of sight until you actually give them out.
4. Once the Easter meal or celebration is over, get rid of the extra candies. Give them to your friends, doorman or husband to bring to work.
Here are the calories in some common Easter candies:
| Easter Candy | Calories |
|---|---|
| 25 jellybeans | 140 |
| 5 Peeps | 160 |
| 5 marshmellow chicks (Circus Peanut type) | 136 |
| 8 robins eggs malted milk candies | 170 |
| 1 small chocolate bunny (1 ounce) | 140 |
| 1 medium hollow chocolate bunny (1 3/4 ounce) | 260 |
| 1 large chocolate bunny (7 ounces) | 1050 |
| 1 chocolate covered marshmellow bunny | 60 |
| 1 chocolate covered marshmellow egg | 100 |
| 1 Cadberry Creme Egg | 170 |
| 1 Cadberry Caramel Egg | 190 |
| 4 Lindt Chocolate Carrots | 210 |
| Cadbury mini chocolate eggs (12) | 190 |
| 1 Spongebob Easter egg | 300 |
| 1 hard boiled Easter egg | 76 |
| 1 Hershey kiss | 26 |
| Reese's peanut butter egg | 180 |
| 1 half deviled egg | 73 |
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