my treadmil said i burned 318 calories... are these calories from fat? or just regular ones?

Question

if they are regular calories... how many calories from fat did i lose?

Answer 1

That is a VERY rough approximation. Your treadmill has no way of knowing your stride mechanics and efficiency, or the efficiency of your digestive system in extracting energy from food.

You are always using a mix of free fatty acids, glycogen and protien for energy. How much of which one at any given time depends on the level of effort you are putting out, your level of conditioning, the state of your glycogen stores, and what you ate recently.

Short answer: Don't worry about it, it doesn't matter. For weight loss purposes, calories is calories.

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Note to Wooderson: check your facts. Most people have around 2000 calories worth of glycogen stored in muscles and liver. It takes quite a bit to deplete that. For me, a hard two hours on a bike will do it. Trust me, when that happens, your workout is over. Runners and cyclists know that condition as "the Bonk".

Answer 2

There aren't calories from fat and regular calories. There are just calories.

A calorie is just an amount of heat energy, or a quantity of food that produces a certain amount of heat energy.

Your body generates heat energy by chemical reactions in your system processing food into heat energy. Your body accesses fat to generate this energy when it isn't getting enough from the outside. Fat is stored fuel for your body.

The calorie measurement on your treadmill is just an estimate and different people doing the same exercise actually burn calories at different rates. However, assuming you really did burn 318 calories, then your body would get those calories from fat if it had already gone through its ready fuel in the form of carbohydrates in your system.

Answer 3

A calorie is a calorie regardless. 1 pound of fat contains roughly 4000 calories. To lose weight and burn fat, your calorie intake must be lower than your calorie expenditure.

If you eat 1500 calories in a day, but you burn 2500 (which includes the number you burn just because of your metabolic rate and any physical activity that burns more), you will be at a negative 1000 calories for the day. Keep this up and you will drop a pound every 4 days.

You cannot look at each workout and know where the calories are coming from. You need to look at the longer term and focus on overall negative calories to lose weight.

Answer 4

Fat calories that have stored are the hardest ones to lose. Your body will turn loose of active fats, but hangs on to the ones it put away for later.

You have to maintain a good diet and a period of time before your body will turn loose of it's saving account. Your body goes into a "famine" mode when you starve yourself. And it will hang on to every fat cell it has stored ....because it is saving your life during a time of little food. You have to get on a good eating program and take in food regularly and often...so your body will know it is OK to let go some of the stored fat. So eat often and correct items and exercise. Walk, Walk, wiggle, dance to some groove music. MOSTLY MOVE, MOVE, MOVE.Swimming is also good low impack.
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It is important to maintain a good diet so you don't compromise your health. Damage done because of lack of nutrition is not worth a nice body. Some diet damage cannot be fixed.
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· When you deprive your brain, the brain will take other body cells to convert to the elements that it needs. And the cells it takes are BRAIN cells. OOPS. I don't want to lose brain cells to have thin legs. But I would like to have both.

Also, a quick weight loss is usually a water loss and that loss will come back ASAP. You cannot loose FAT more than 2 to 3 pounds a week. Any more than that and you are loosing water and muscle mass (not good)

AND DON'T GO ON A DIET. DECIDE TO MAKE A LIFE CHANGE TO A HEALTHY LIFE STYLE.

1) fruits and veggies, all you want, organic, raw, vine-ripe if possible. Steamed is OK, sautéed is OK even canned or frozen is OK, but lots of them.
2) limited or no meat.
3) nothing fried
4) no FAST FOOD- is junk, no nutrition, empty calories
5) NO PROCESSED FOOD. if you can't pronounce it don't eat it.
6) nothing white, salt, sugar, mayo, milk, (or at least in moderation.
7) NO DAIRY-dairy is great for baby cows, your body does not even digest it properly. check out www.notmilk.com
8) EXERCISE- and be sure to refresh your body with water and fresh fruit
9) NO PROTEIN SUPPLEMENTS. Muscle is made from water, replace the water. You get enough protein from the food you eat, You get more protein from spinach than the supplements you take and your body does not get toxic on food protein the way it will with supplements. Supplements can really tax you liver.
10) Good supplement would be Omega 3, and B-12 and Juice Plus+
http://www.juiceplus.com/nsa/pages/Home....
11) NO CARBONATED DRINKS, or at least limited. They actually dissolve the calcium in your bones.
12) Calories in calories out.

AND DON'T GO NUTS, MODERATION.

And the spell check would not work, so if I messed up please forgive.

Answer 5

First of all you are not fat! So don't stress about how much you ate. Secondly, you didn't eat a lot. You are only 13 and you're still growing. You NEED to eat! Eat more protein though, like chicken, fish or meat.

Answer 6

sooo you ran/walked a lil under 3 miles? thats not enough to be catabolic(break your muscle down) so just regular old calories.......all depends on how hard you worked out to determine how much came from fat