How many calories to burn to lose a pound of bodyfat!
Recently I weighed myself for the last few days before I hit the treadmill and then again right after I finished to see how much weight I lost.
There’s a saying of 3,500 calories = a pound.
Thats not refferring to fat.
It might refer to muscle mass but I dont know for sure at this time.
Here’s the theory though.
5 grams = .1 lbs
50 grams = 1 lb
When you consume 5 grams of fat you gain .1lb of fat.
When you consume 50 grams of fat you gain 1lb of fat.
Why don’t people get extremely fat then if they dont exercise.
Even if they don’t they still walk around from doing their jobs or just plain shopping which makes them burn the calories off.
Heres an example
I can tell you that if a 220lb person walked as slow as .5 MPH for as little as an hour they still will lose at least 135 calories.
That alone is .3 lbs of fat or 15 grams of fat.
You have to figure the most a person consumes regularly is 80 grams of fat. 720 calories.
1.6 lbs of fat there alone
720 - 675 = 45 calories
45 calories = 5 grams of fat = .1lb of fat
They eat 1.6 lbs of fat and burn off 1.5 lbs of fat only keeping .1lb of fat.
Thats most likely why people don’t get as big as they really can.
They do get bigger but slowly.
If you really want to shed off the weight here’s what to do.
For every 450 calories you burn, you lose 1lb of fat.
How can you do that?
Lets say your 220lbs or more, run on the treadmill at 6 MPH for around 25 minutes.
You will lose 450 calories or more.
The more you weigh the more calories you’ll lose.
Weigh yourself before you hit the cardio and after you hit the cardio.
Guarantee myself and you the reader that your results will exactly match or extremely
closely match what this blog states.
March 20, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Our bodies are amazing they are very good at adapting. No 2 bodies are the same.
April 25, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I agree with the 3500 calories is a pound statement based off of things I’ve read. Loosely it does refer to fat considering there is no difference of a calorie of fat, protein, or carbohydrate because a calorie is a unit of measurement, the difference in lies in grams and how your body metabolizes the macronutrients. I do however have to note that fat 450 cals burned off may not directly correlate to a pound of fat seeing as how a body will have a tendency to burn off carbohydrates (glucose) faster than it will fat.