Robin Eggs

I picked up my first bag of Robin Eggs a few weeks back because it was the cheapest of the bagged holiday candies at Walgreens.  Little did I know.....  Harmless Easter Candy?  I think not!  I waged my three week war with the mini Robin Eggs and LOST.  Over that three week period I managed to ingest 7 (yes, seven) bags of Robin Eggs.  Sad, laughable and wholly enjoyable.

Why my love affair with this little candy coated treat?  I have pondered this because I can honestly say that Whoppers are not my candy of choice.  I'm more of a peanut M&M kind of gal.  But, for some reason, if you shape a Whopper like an egg, thin out the chocolate and cover it with a pastel candy coating, it's the best stuff on the planet.  It's the texture of the malted milk center.  You bite the piece of candy in half, then you keep that piece in your mouth long enough for the malted center to dissolve.  Heaven.  Another way to eat them is to not bite it in half but let it dissolve in your mouth.  You can also just throw them in  your mouth and chew, but that's just not as pleasurable.  

Now that it's done and I will hopefully not be seeing another bag of Robin Eggs for another year, I can look at the nutritional information and figure out exactly what the hell I ate.

One bag of mini Robin Eggs contains 7 servings at 190 calories for each serving.  That's 1330 calories per bag or 9310 calories for the whole kit and caboodle.  Oh My! So, 9310 calories stretched out over 21 days equals an extra 440ish calories per day.  That's 4 beers on top of what I may have already drank (roughly one bottle wine per day if that's the way your tastes sway)!  Thankfully, there is one gram of protein per serving so I did get 49 grams of protein from the whole debacle.  I'm not even going near the carbs.  There are 33 per serving, you can do the math.

So, what can I do about it now?  Not much.  Focus on high protein, lo-carb, not my forte.  I did eat half a grilled chicken breast for dinner tonight, but the glass of red wine I washed it down with didn't help much. The gym I go to has a new rowing machine which I believe will become my new best friend.  According to http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc if I 'moderately' row for 30 minutes I will burn 262 calories.  Given that I ingested 9310 unwanted but oh sooo delicious calories I will need to do 35-half hour sessions of rowing on that fancy piece of machinery in order to balance out the negative effects of the Robin Eggs.  I take a 'Power Pump' class at my gym twice a week which I will classify as 45 minutes of vigorous weigh lifting.  Which burns 341 calories.  So, if I continue with my two classes per week and burn the standard 682 calories and I incorporate 5-half hour sessions of rowing to my weekly work out regimen, I will burn 1468 calories per week.  I will have to continue this daily work out schedule for 6.34 weeks in order to ensure I completely burn off the calories I ingested over that glorious three week period.  Had I known this before I'm pretty sure I still would have eaten them.  I purposely didn't consider the calorie content every time I picked up a bag.  :)  

Urgh.  I guess you'll be seeing me at the gym.