I just started Weight Watchers and for my exercise routine, I have been walking 1 mile everyday. I break it up by walking 1/2 mile in the mornings and 1/2 mile in the evenings. I have a 100+ pounds to lose, and I feel I am on the right track, but I was just curious to know if anyone knows the answer. My calorie intake a day is around 1000 to 1200. I have cut out soft drinks and I drink 8 glasses of water a day, plus eating sugar free and low fat or fat free foods.
2007-01-08 08:07:26 · 5 answers · asked by Blonde Ambition 3 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
at three miles an hour only about 100 calories, I walk every day on treadmill
cutting out soft drinks was the best thing you could have done. that and drinking water!!! I lost 12 lbs by just doing that.
2007-01-08 08:14:52 · answer #1 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The amount burned is relative to one's current weight, check out the link below and it will tell you about how many calories you burn during specific activities... walking a mile is approximately 150 calories.
Also though, as soon as you start walking a mile, after a while you'll want to walk more and more, so the time calc is pretty good for that!
Good Luck!
2007-01-08 08:18:54 · answer #2 · answered by jebudas 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are definitely on the right track. How many calories you burn by walking one mile depends a lot on how fast you walk. If you double the speed you quadruple the number of calories you burn. Normally, if you walk a mile in 20 minutes you burn less than 200 calories, but if you are carrying an "extra" 100 lbs. +, you might burn twice that, or about 400 calories.
2007-01-08 08:16:56 · answer #3 · answered by Ivar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't know about a mile but if you walk around the mall for and hour you'll lose 100 calories.(and thats without stopnig and shopping around)
2007-01-08 08:18:06 · answer #4 · answered by leo_dicap_lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rule of thumb is overlaying any distance at a speedy %. demands extra power (burns extra energy) than overlaying the comparable distance at a slower %.. That mentioned, you *can* burn extra energy at a slower %. if different factors are in touch. think of working as against hopping. it may require lots extra time to hop a mile yet could burn extra energy simply by fact it is so much less effectual than working a mile. EDIT: To the poster who responded with a blanket assertion of "One burns 0.9 kcal/kg of bodyweight/km...". you're ignoring the potential for exterior factors that some different posters have stated. evaluate my "hopping" occasion. with the aid of your reasoning, hopping in place could burn up the comparable volume of energy as status nevertheless. this is needless to say not the main suitable option because it thoroughly ignores factors different than distance traveled.
2016-10-30 08:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by nocera 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋