How many laps around Walmart?
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VintageFeline wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »The average Wal-Mart is 197000 square feet. Usually they are shaped in a rectangle so lets say 550'x358' to give us 197,000 square feet. So that would 1,816' around the building. I am going to subtract 25% as a guesstimate on aisle locations and what not. So 1,362'. Guessing that your steps are 24" apart roughly, that would be 681 steps to go around Wal-Mart once. If you really want those donuts, I will assume you are going to walk at a moderate 3.0mph pace. Doing that for one hour will burn about 250-275 calories (about the size of a donut), so you would walk 3 miles in that hour. That would be 15,840'. Taking the 681 steps to go around Wal-Mart, that would be about 23.26 laps. So....based on margin of error. My guess is 22-25 laps should do it...
What if you load up a cart and push that around the whole time? That should increase the calorie burn, right?
Bonus calorie burn too for crashing your cart into the cart of the idiot who parks his/her cart on one side of the aisle while meticulously researching each and every can of crushed tomatoes on the other side of the aisle.
What is the burn if I put an adult person in the cart and run quickly up and down aisles and jumping onto the back rung of the cart and yelling "Weeeeeee!" ?
Asking for a friend.
Depends on if you're drunk or not.
And how long it takes security to catch you and throw you out.
and whether or not the shopping cart is one of the few that has 4 properly working wheels. We all know that sticky front wheel will make those calorie burns around the corners skyrocket...
if all four wheels are broke and you go around the 24 laps at 6mph you will create a donut wormhole that will break the space donut continuum and then all donuts are zero calories.
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"if all four wheels are broke and you go around the 24 laps at 6mph you will create a donut wormhole that will break the space donut continuum and then all donuts are zero calories."
I've been doing the calculating in my head all this time and I thought this would be the result, I just didn't want to show off by giving you all the answer too early...good job kids.
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juggernaut1974 wrote: »Still looking for a Target conversion chart. I boycotted Wally World when they changed their logo to that ridiculous asterisk looking thing.
1.148 Target laps for every WM lap. Has something to do with the black hole near the Home Decor department? You'll have to ask @Hornsby for the math.
Dang...I was hoping the formula somehow involved pi...or pie...because pie > donuts.0 -
juggernaut1974 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »Still looking for a Target conversion chart. I boycotted Wally World when they changed their logo to that ridiculous asterisk looking thing.
1.148 Target laps for every WM lap. Has something to do with the black hole near the Home Decor department? You'll have to ask @Hornsby for the math.
Dang...I was hoping the formula somehow involved pi...or pie...because pie > donuts.
Unless it's a maple donut pie there is no way pie>donut. Couldn't be possible. I'm sure that my opinion is scientifically and /or mathematically based on a Wikipedia link somewhere
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blkandwhite77 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »Still looking for a Target conversion chart. I boycotted Wally World when they changed their logo to that ridiculous asterisk looking thing.
1.148 Target laps for every WM lap. Has something to do with the black hole near the Home Decor department? You'll have to ask @Hornsby for the math.
Dang...I was hoping the formula somehow involved pi...or pie...because pie > donuts.
Unless it's a maple donut pie
10/10...would eat again0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »
Sorry, I didn't. I didn't post anything based on laps, or anything like that. My post simply stated that the OP would have to walk at a pace quick enough to raise her heart rate, and that she would have to walk for more than an hour to burn off enough calories to earn that doughnut. Since the average doughnut is well over 250 calories (and she was talking about a maple something dougnut, which is likely well over 300), any average person at a walking pace, will have to walk for over an hour to burn that many calories. No assumptions there.
Regardless of the science involved, no post anywhere in the forums deserves name calling, joking or not.
Reality shows that assumptions were still involved.You can't out-exercise a bad diet. You have to walk at a very brisk pace to get your heart pumping, and then you'd still have to walk for well over an hour at that pace to earn that doughnut.
Stating "well over an hour" assumes quite a few things. The OPs weight, the pace at which she walked, how fast her heart rate climbs, her basic cardiovascular health, her age, and the size and type of the donut which would determine the calories needed to break even on the event.
I generally agree with your statement of not being able to out exercise a bad diet. But we're talking about a single donut here. I often out exercise a trip to the food trucks with a couple beers involved. I can appreciate that you're one of the people that often brings up the valid point of weight loss being possible without exercise, as many overlook that as a potential choice. But in the terms of a single donut, even someone who doesn't exercise could fit that into their day.
Stated later in the post you said....Anyone who just came in to actually find out about this needs to know that it's not a good idea to think they can lose weight by just taking a walk and eating things like doughnuts.
Are you saying you never ate a donut or any other "junk food" snack the entire time period you couldn't exercise? Context is everything, and leaving out details leads to lack of complete context.
Nope. I actually don't exercise at all, and if I want a donut, I eat one, and account for it in my calorie goal for the day.
However, I was simply addressing the one-time scenario presented by the OP in her original post which was only this: walking around a store in order to burn enough calories to account for the calories in one doughnut. Period.
And science says that any person who wants to burn enough calories to eat the doughnut needs to elevate his or her heart rate, and the OP is a woman. Most women will need to walk for at least an hour to burn the nearly 300 calories in the doughnut.
Science.
The rest of us are addressing this part of the OP:
"lol it may take a while because for some reason we find our quest hilarious and we can't stop laughing... Hey can we count the laughing into calories burned!? Stay tuned for lap updates
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Note the "lol," "hilarious," two "laughing," and the smilie.
that has nothing to do with the post I was reply to at all.0 -
DeguelloTex wrote: »
The epitaph of many a weight loss effort.blkandwhite77 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »
Sorry, I didn't. I didn't post anything based on laps, or anything like that. My post simply stated that the OP would have to walk at a pace quick enough to raise her heart rate, and that she would have to walk for more than an hour to burn off enough calories to earn that doughnut. Since the average doughnut is well over 250 calories (and she was talking about a maple something dougnut, which is likely well over 300), any average person at a walking pace, will have to walk for over an hour to burn that many calories. No assumptions there.
Regardless of the science involved, no post anywhere in the forums deserves name calling, joking or not.
Reality shows that assumptions were still involved.You can't out-exercise a bad diet. You have to walk at a very brisk pace to get your heart pumping, and then you'd still have to walk for well over an hour at that pace to earn that doughnut.
Stating "well over an hour" assumes quite a few things. The OPs weight, the pace at which she walked, how fast her heart rate climbs, her basic cardiovascular health, her age, and the size and type of the donut which would determine the calories needed to break even on the event.
I generally agree with your statement of not being able to out exercise a bad diet. But we're talking about a single donut here. I often out exercise a trip to the food trucks with a couple beers involved. I can appreciate that you're one of the people that often brings up the valid point of weight loss being possible without exercise, as many overlook that as a potential choice. But in the terms of a single donut, even someone who doesn't exercise could fit that into their day.
Stated later in the post you said....Anyone who just came in to actually find out about this needs to know that it's not a good idea to think they can lose weight by just taking a walk and eating things like doughnuts.
Are you saying you never ate a donut or any other "junk food" snack the entire time period you couldn't exercise? Context is everything, and leaving out details leads to lack of complete context.
Nope. I actually don't exercise at all, and if I want a donut, I eat one, and account for it in my calorie goal for the day.
However, I was simply addressing the one-time scenario presented by the OP in her original post which was only this: walking around a store in order to burn enough calories to account for the calories in one doughnut. Period.
And science says that any person who wants to burn enough calories to eat the doughnut needs to elevate his or her heart rate, and the OP is a woman. Most women will need to walk for at least an hour to burn the nearly 300 calories in the doughnut.
Science.
Woohoo! I walked for 1.5 hours pushing the cart from hell so trust me my heart was a pumpin! Wait does that mean I could have 1.5 donuts! Darn it I shorted myself! You're right a bad diet would simple be a bad diet. Yet, one donut is a treat. Hmm 1.5 donuts may have been a bad diet. Didn't short myself after all phew! I am a woman an obese woman so I'm sure somehow that factors in to a greater calorie burn but honestly that's too much math. I felt comfortable that I had worked sufficiently to earn my treat plus it was fun and that was the best part.
Exactly. I was simply trying to give accurate information as applies to the situation in a realistic way, as would apply to a person who really was trying to lose weight. I lost 40 pounds and have kept it off successfully for two years. How you doin'?0 -
Chocolate pie > all donuts.blkandwhite77 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »Still looking for a Target conversion chart. I boycotted Wally World when they changed their logo to that ridiculous asterisk looking thing.
1.148 Target laps for every WM lap. Has something to do with the black hole near the Home Decor department? You'll have to ask @Hornsby for the math.
Dang...I was hoping the formula somehow involved pi...or pie...because pie > donuts.
Unless it's a maple donut pie there is no way pie>donut. Couldn't be possible. I'm sure that my opinion is scientifically and /or mathematically based on a Wikipedia link somewhere
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kshama2001 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »
Sorry, I didn't. I didn't post anything based on laps, or anything like that. My post simply stated that the OP would have to walk at a pace quick enough to raise her heart rate, and that she would have to walk for more than an hour to burn off enough calories to earn that doughnut. Since the average doughnut is well over 250 calories (and she was talking about a maple something dougnut, which is likely well over 300), any average person at a walking pace, will have to walk for over an hour to burn that many calories. No assumptions there.
Regardless of the science involved, no post anywhere in the forums deserves name calling, joking or not.
Reality shows that assumptions were still involved.You can't out-exercise a bad diet. You have to walk at a very brisk pace to get your heart pumping, and then you'd still have to walk for well over an hour at that pace to earn that doughnut.
Stating "well over an hour" assumes quite a few things. The OPs weight, the pace at which she walked, how fast her heart rate climbs, her basic cardiovascular health, her age, and the size and type of the donut which would determine the calories needed to break even on the event.
I generally agree with your statement of not being able to out exercise a bad diet. But we're talking about a single donut here. I often out exercise a trip to the food trucks with a couple beers involved. I can appreciate that you're one of the people that often brings up the valid point of weight loss being possible without exercise, as many overlook that as a potential choice. But in the terms of a single donut, even someone who doesn't exercise could fit that into their day.
Stated later in the post you said....Anyone who just came in to actually find out about this needs to know that it's not a good idea to think they can lose weight by just taking a walk and eating things like doughnuts.
Are you saying you never ate a donut or any other "junk food" snack the entire time period you couldn't exercise? Context is everything, and leaving out details leads to lack of complete context.
Nope. I actually don't exercise at all, and if I want a donut, I eat one, and account for it in my calorie goal for the day.
However, I was simply addressing the one-time scenario presented by the OP in her original post which was only this: walking around a store in order to burn enough calories to account for the calories in one doughnut. Period.
And science says that any person who wants to burn enough calories to eat the doughnut needs to elevate his or her heart rate, and the OP is a woman. Most women will need to walk for at least an hour to burn the nearly 300 calories in the doughnut.
Science.
The rest of us are addressing this part of the OP:
"lol it may take a while because for some reason we find our quest hilarious and we can't stop laughing... Hey can we count the laughing into calories burned!? Stay tuned for lap updates"
Note the "lol," "hilarious," two "laughing," and the smilie.
that has nothing to do with the post I was reply to at all.
You said you were addressing X. My point is that most of were addressing the humor in the OP. Also, the OP herself has told you repeatedly to lighten up.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »
Sorry, I didn't. I didn't post anything based on laps, or anything like that. My post simply stated that the OP would have to walk at a pace quick enough to raise her heart rate, and that she would have to walk for more than an hour to burn off enough calories to earn that doughnut. Since the average doughnut is well over 250 calories (and she was talking about a maple something dougnut, which is likely well over 300), any average person at a walking pace, will have to walk for over an hour to burn that many calories. No assumptions there.
Regardless of the science involved, no post anywhere in the forums deserves name calling, joking or not.
Reality shows that assumptions were still involved.You can't out-exercise a bad diet. You have to walk at a very brisk pace to get your heart pumping, and then you'd still have to walk for well over an hour at that pace to earn that doughnut.
Stating "well over an hour" assumes quite a few things. The OPs weight, the pace at which she walked, how fast her heart rate climbs, her basic cardiovascular health, her age, and the size and type of the donut which would determine the calories needed to break even on the event.
I generally agree with your statement of not being able to out exercise a bad diet. But we're talking about a single donut here. I often out exercise a trip to the food trucks with a couple beers involved. I can appreciate that you're one of the people that often brings up the valid point of weight loss being possible without exercise, as many overlook that as a potential choice. But in the terms of a single donut, even someone who doesn't exercise could fit that into their day.
Stated later in the post you said....Anyone who just came in to actually find out about this needs to know that it's not a good idea to think they can lose weight by just taking a walk and eating things like doughnuts.
Are you saying you never ate a donut or any other "junk food" snack the entire time period you couldn't exercise? Context is everything, and leaving out details leads to lack of complete context.
Nope. I actually don't exercise at all, and if I want a donut, I eat one, and account for it in my calorie goal for the day.
However, I was simply addressing the one-time scenario presented by the OP in her original post which was only this: walking around a store in order to burn enough calories to account for the calories in one doughnut. Period.
And science says that any person who wants to burn enough calories to eat the doughnut needs to elevate his or her heart rate, and the OP is a woman. Most women will need to walk for at least an hour to burn the nearly 300 calories in the doughnut.
Science.
The rest of us are addressing this part of the OP:
"lol it may take a while because for some reason we find our quest hilarious and we can't stop laughing... Hey can we count the laughing into calories burned!? Stay tuned for lap updates"
Note the "lol," "hilarious," two "laughing," and the smilie.
that has nothing to do with the post I was reply to at all.
You said you were addressing X. My point is that most of were addressing the humor in the OP. Also, the OP herself has told you repeatedly to lighten up.
By calling names? I don't respond to name calling by 'lightening up'.0 -
DeguelloTex wrote: »
Chocolate pie > all donuts.blkandwhite77 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »Still looking for a Target conversion chart. I boycotted Wally World when they changed their logo to that ridiculous asterisk looking thing.
1.148 Target laps for every WM lap. Has something to do with the black hole near the Home Decor department? You'll have to ask @Hornsby for the math.
Dang...I was hoping the formula somehow involved pi...or pie...because pie > donuts.
Unless it's a maple donut pie there is no way pie>donut. Couldn't be possible. I'm sure that my opinion is scientifically and /or mathematically based on a Wikipedia link somewhere
I would give up donuts forever in exchange for a well made chocolate pie!! Yes!
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juggernaut1974 wrote: »juggernaut1974 wrote: »Still looking for a Target conversion chart. I boycotted Wally World when they changed their logo to that ridiculous asterisk looking thing.
1.148 Target laps for every WM lap. Has something to do with the black hole near the Home Decor department? You'll have to ask @Hornsby for the math.
Dang...I was hoping the formula somehow involved pi...or pie...because pie > donuts.
It may involve Pi. I'm not doing the math on this. I already did an adding thing this morning.
But PIE? Hell yes there's pie and cheesecake. SF cheesecake with an almond crust totally fits my macros. So yeah, get your own. *mouth full and mumbling* They're over there. *pointing*0 -
this thread is cute even all the spoil sports are cute0
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The occasional donut, ice cream, cookie or cake and still 70lbs down in 1.5 years and still losing and I'm happier than ever. Keeping on doing what I've been doing and enjoying my little treats. Plus I've kept my sense of humor. Yes I rule!0
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I think I want donuts for dinner.0
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This is hilarious.0
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DeguelloTex wrote: »My Fitbit says I burn 11 calories a minute at my "exercising" pace, so that should be good for a couple of maple donuts per hour. I don't claim to be average, though.
Screw that. Find a fitness tracker that overestimates, work out hard, then go for the cake donuts. Should be good for at least 4 donuts an hour. Without glycogen stores lacking, you can then push hard at the end for a Boston Creme during cool down.Nope. I actually don't exercise at all, and if I want a donut, I eat one, and account for it in my calorie goal for the day.
However, I was simply addressing the one-time scenario presented by the OP in her original post which was only this: walking around a store in order to burn enough calories to account for the calories in one doughnut. Period.
And science says that any person who wants to burn enough calories to eat the doughnut needs to elevate his or her heart rate, and the OP is a woman. Most women will need to walk for at least an hour to burn the nearly 300 calories in the doughnut.
Science.
Well we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. While I agree with the basic idea, you can't solve for multiple variables that are unknown.
I do sincerely appreciate the eating discipline you must have to control weight by diet only. That would be tough for me. I DO tend to go out exercise some calorie intake when I can. I just enjoy food. Will work (out) for donuts.blkandwhite77 wrote: »The occasional donut, ice cream, cookie or cake and still 70lbs down in 1.5 years and still losing and I'm happier than ever. Keeping on doing what I've been doing and enjoying my little treats. Plus I've kept my sense of humor. Yes I rule!
The great part is that you can work off quite a bit of the fun food if that's what works for you. I see people freak out about eating a little too much. I've had days where alcohol alone was almost my calorie allotment for the day!
We should start a workout group... the Krispy Kreme Racing Team. Ride to the donut shop for fuel.0
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