WATCH: Here’s how many calories you’ll eat on Super Bowl Sunday

WATCH ABOVE: Chicken wings, chili, beer, pizza. You name it, you’ll likely be eating it on Super Bowl Sunday. But did you ever wonder how many calories you’d be consuming during the game?

TORONTO – There’s the pigskin, the Patriots and the Seahawks. But Super Bowl Sunday wouldn’t be complete without the pizza, chicken wings, chips and beer, right?

If you’re eating according to the typical Game Day spread, you could be consuming more than 2,400 calories, according to the Calorie Control Council (CCC). And that’s just during the game.

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The American organization pegs the Super Bowl binging as the second largest food consumption day next to Thanksgiving.

If consumers were to add up the calories for everything in their grocery carts during the week leading up to the Super Bowl, it’d be more than 6,000 calories, another study suggested.

To come up with its whopping 2,400-calorie figure, CCC took a look at the traditional Super Bowl menu and took a ballpark estimate for how much an average person eats.

You could be eating a combination of this:

• 2 slices of pepperoni pizza (596 calories and 24.3 grams of fat)
• 3 cans of beer (458 calories)
• 3 cans of soda (420 calories)
• 30 to 40 tortilla chips (418 calories and 18.3 grams of fat)
• 30 to 40 potato chips (465 calories 31.9 grams of fat)
• A quarter of a cup of cheese dip (73 calories and 5.5 grams of fat)
• A quarter of a cup of seven layer dip (76 calories and 4 grams of fat)
• 6 Buffalo wings with blue cheese dip (570 calories and 40 grams of fat)
• 5 pigs in a blanket (650 calories and 40 grams of fat)
• 1 serving of beef nachos (430 calories and 25 grams of fat)
• 1 barbecue sandwich (437 calories and 16 grams of fat)
• 4 meatballs (160 calories and 12 grams of fat)
• 4 celery sticks with ranch dip (69 calories and 7 grams of fat)
• 2 brownies (447 calories and 30 grams of fat)
• 1 cupcake (200 calories and 9 grams of fat)

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Does this feeding frenzy sound familiar to you? If you were to consume the entire menu, that would total more than 5,400 calories.

The losing team eats more

Eating your feelings is the real deal when it comes to football, French research has suggested. In 2013, the scientists studied 475 NFL games and 30 teams in more than two dozen cities.

They zeroed in on fans of the home city’s football team because it was easier to track their eating habits on game day.

Turns out, fans end up binge-eating their sorrows after a loss while fans of the winning team turn over a new leaf and stick to healthy habits the next day.

“We show that defeats by your favourite football or soccer team make you eat more, and less healthy food, especially if they were narrow, unexpected and against an opponent of the same strength,” the lead author wrote on his website.

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“The flip side is that victories make us eat slightly better.”

So how sinful are fans of the losing team? The day after, these supporters tended to consume 16 per cent more saturated fat than usual and even 10 per cent more calories.

Those who lived in the winning city ate nine per cent less saturated fat than normal and five per cent fewer calories.

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And if the fans are of the die-hard, paint-your-face, season-ticket-holding, personalized-jersey-making variety, the effects are even more exaggerated: fans of losing teams ate three times more fat (up to 28 per cent more), meanwhile their winning counterparts ate 16 per cent less fat than on an average day.

That happened in at least eight cities with groups of devoted football fans.

So if you’re worried about your waistline, you better choose wisely.

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(Infographic by Janet Cordahi/Global News)

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