STORM2K

okay, folks here is a quiz for those that know.


If I consume 900 calories per day, run at 5mph 4 miles, 10 minutes of sit ups, how many calories am I burning/day. (weight range 200-205, sedentary work)

How many calories do I burn in a day? (use the above parameters).


How many calories should I consume to continue losing weight?

Is this homework?

I never was a math whiz...always loathed those ?'s of when Train A leaves Boston and Train B leaves Chicago, etc.

Eric

kevin wrote:Is this homework?

No, hardly.

Can't help on this one: I'm a victim of "new math."

JenBayles wrote:Can't help on this one: I'm a victim of "new math."

It's not new math, but it is difficult to calculate this stuff. I was just wondering if anyone new, because I am dropping about 1/2 to a 1lb per day with set-offs here and there.

Google it. There's a lot of variables, and I'm not going to get into it.

1/2 lb per day may or may not be sustainable. A pound of fat is about 2000 calories, if I remember right. Increasing output is definitely better than drastically restricting intake. It's difficult to get sufficient needed nutrition on extremely low calorie intakes. Think lifestyle change, not short term heroic efforts. I'd think that 10 pounds a month would really be pushing it.

with a 900 calorie intake, i think you can probably sit on your a** all day and lose weight.

coriolis wrote:Google it. There's a lot of variables, and I'm not going to get into it.

1/2 lb per day may or may not be sustainable. A pound of fat is about 2000 calories, if I remember right. Increasing output is definitely better than drastically restricting intake. It's difficult to get sufficient needed nutrition on extremely low calorie intakes. Think lifestyle change, not short term heroic efforts. I'd think that 10 pounds a month would really be pushing it.

Eh, I am on the lifestyle change. I have been averaging 10-12 pounds a month in weight loss. I need to get back to my old exercising days....