For example you eat 2000 calories per day, do you need to do exercise each day that will burn off 2000 calories in order to lose weight??
2007-12-17 08:47:10 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Pam and Rafcolde - I am not stupid. I mean like does your body automatically burn some of.. or do you have to run for X amount of hours per day until you've burned off everything you've eaten that day. So i'm meaning do you have to do 2000 calories worth of EXTRA exercise in order to lose weight.
2007-12-17 08:57:32 · update #1
No... your body needs that many calories to perform througout the day. What you do, is decrease your intake by about 2-300 calories, and workout to burn more than you consume, thus burning already-stored fat.
2007-12-17 08:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope - you need to exercise or do other work that burns off MORE than 2000 calories a day. Moderate exercise might burn 500-600 calories an hour. Hard exercise might move that up to 700 or maybe 1000, but not many people can sustain that for an hour. That's why it's so important to limit the number of calories that you take in if you want to lose weight.
2007-12-17 08:51:57 · answer #2 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-22 03:37:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple math. Eat more than you burn - you gain. Burn more than you eat - you lose. If you ate 2000 calories and burned 2000 calories you would stay even for that day.
It is really sometimes more complicated than that, like a pound of fat is bigger than a pound of muscle, so if you lose a pound of fat and gain a pound of muscle you will look smaller, but weigh the same. Also, if you have more muscle on your body you burn more calories because your metabolism is higher.
2007-12-17 08:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by Pam H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you take in.
2007-12-17 08:50:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but thats how I do it and it works.
2007-12-17 08:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by Eyeliner_whore 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋