Chubby at Heart
Calorie Free Days
You read it on Patch, so this must be true. Sort of.
I’m a firm believer that there are some times when calories cease to exist: mission trips, sick days, that first afternoon when Girl Scout Cookies are delivered and snow days. Some people buy bread and milk. I buy chocolate and Diet Coke. So this column is to announce that, as far as I know, calories do not count on days when roads are frozen over. First of all, you have to burn at least 300 calories building that snowman. You probably sweat off another 150 in those minutes between bundling up and heading out into the cold. I’d estimate that you get rid of another 50 from getting up once you fall on the ice and another 100 for climbing up that hill after you decide to sled down once. Hot chocolate is 90 percent water, so that can’t hurt …
