What time will it take to finish your Thanksgiving dinner?

Caught up in the festivities, Thanksgiving dinner is usually demolished in minutes — but it would take up to 13 hours to walk off the damage.

The traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings — stuffing, mashed potato, cranberry sauce, candied yams and gravy —  contains around 3,700 calories, which is 70 per cent above the entire daily allowance for a woman.

This would mean that the average person would need to walk over 30 miles. It would take approximately 13 hours or a six-hour run, depending on what you are doing. official expenditure estimates.

If you were one of the families who had Mac and Cheese instead of turkey this year, you’d have to walk even for longer. It has become increasingly popular for vegetarians, and families that are bored of turkey, but the pasta and cheese have less nutritional value and more calories.

Mac and Cheese averages 600 calories per serving. This brings the total calories to approximately 4,000 when you add all the sides. This would require you to walk 32 miles. It would take almost 14 hours.

Dessert of apple pie or pumpkin pie would be approximately 300 calories. That’s nearly 7,000 steps. It would be 3,000 steps more if you added a 130-calorie scoop or ice cream. Nearly 3,000 steps would be added to each meal by having a glass of wine with it.

Dr Linia Patel, a registered dietitian in the UK, said: ‘Special holidays for thanksgiving are allowed, so there is no need to beat yourself up over eating more than normal for the day.

“But you cannot exercise your way to a healthy diet, but there are ways to balance calories.

Other favorites including a beef wellington take the tally to a whopping 4,000 calories — which needs 90,000 steps or 40 miles to walk.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Says Walking for 30 minutes can help you burn around 140 calories.

It takes approximately this amount of time to walk 3,300 steps. This amounts to roughly 0.04 to 0.05 calories per minute.

This figure is based upon an adult who weighs approximately 154 lbs (11st). Higher-weight people will burn slightly more calories for each step.

It would take almost 13 hours to finish the 3,700-calorie turkey meal and all its trimmings if you were to pedal your bike around. 

The CDC recommends that a cyclist riding a hardy bike ride should take no less than six hours.

For yoga-lovers, it will take around 20 hours to burn the food. Dancers can choose to practice for 11 hours. 

Dr Patel added: ‘If you overindulge on one day it is important to remember that you can balance it out, but by focusing on more foods like fruit and vegetables afterwards.

You can burn more calories if you’re more active, so consider going on a walk with the kids or running afterwards.

After DailyMail.com, after scanning the US Department of Agriculture Database, calculated the average calories of Thanksgiving based upon the main course, desserts, or drinks.

For the pre-meal snacks, two crescent rolls, a handful of mixed nuts, broccoli florets, artichoke dip and a beer were listed — which came to 800 calories between them.

For starters, a butternut squash soup was included — containing 220 calories which would require 5,000 steps to burn off.

Families would then be able to move on to four slices of turkey or other mains, as well as stuffing, gravy green beans, cranberry glaze, candied yams, sweet potato casserole, and mashed potatoes. 

The total calories were nearly 1,900 calories with the addition of two glasses red wine.

For dessert, you received a slice of apple pie, pumpkin cake, vanilla ice cream, and a cup of coffee. This dish had 800 calories.

American women weigh 170lbs (12.1st), and men weigh 197.9lbs (14.1st). Women in the UK weigh 154lbs (11.1 stone), and men weigh 184.8lbs (13.2stone). 

American women are advised to consume about 2,200 calories daily, while men need to consume an average of 2,500 calories.