I hope you all enjoyed a great weekend filled with football-championship fun!

It may not be a national holiday, but Super Bowl Sunday is an American tradition right up there with turkey on Thanksgiving and apple pie. In fact, I know plenty of non-football fans who look forward to this day. Why? Because the Big Game offers the perfect excuse to get together with friends and family and indulge in many of the foods most of us try and avoid on a regular basis.

Even I go a bit overboard on Super Bowl Sunday. Which is the main reason I’m on a mission this Monday to squeeze in a post-Super Bowl workout to burn some calories. (I’m pretty sure getting up off the couch to dance to some of Madonna’s half-time show club tunes didn’t do the trick.)

With some help from a great website called CalorieKing, I put together a rundown of how some of America’s favorite Super Bowl foods score on the calorie counter. Considering many or all of these items may have been on your game day menu, I’ll let you add them up based on what you did or didn’t eat and factor in how many pieces, slices or serving sizes you enjoyed.

• Doritos’ Tortilla Chips, Cool Ranch Flavored (12 chips) = 140 calories
• Lays’ Potato Chips, Sour Cream & Onion Flavored (17 chips) = 160 calories
• 5 Pigs-in-a-Blanket = 470 calories
• 5-wing serving of hot wings = Anywhere from 300 to 597 calories (depending on the sauce and dip they’re served with)
• 1 Slice of Cheese Pizza = 240 calories
• 1 Slice of Pepperoni Pizza = 298 calories
• 1 Slice of Papa John’s “The Works” Pizza = 330 calories
• Bowl of Chili = Calories range from 300 – 600 based on the recipe. (e.g. cheese v. no-cheese)
• 1 Light Beer (12 oz) = 96 calories
• 1 Regular Beer or Ale (12 oz) = 150 calories
• 1 Regular Soda (12oz) = 140 calories

If this list didn’t give you enough of a reason to want to get up off that chair and start and go for a run or find the next Zumba® class in your area, maybe this great article from Friday’s Washington Post will give you an extra push to break a sweat.

Whether or not you cared about which team won, I hope you enjoyed Super Bowl Sunday! If that included going a bit overboard with the food and drink, no doubt you had your fun – which means there’s no time like today to get back on track with your plans to be fit and feel fabulous!