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Sammy56

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Could someone PLEASE help me. I just have a couple of questions.
If I ate around 10500 calories a week, and burned off 1000 calories a day, would I lose 2 pounds? I know 1000 calories is a lot to burn off through exercise...but I will be going to aerobics classes and doing exercise at home, so it will add up quickly. :)
I dont want to drop to eating 1500 calories a day...because it would probablly slow my metabolism ....so is it ok if some days I eat more calories than other days...but still add up to 10500 per week?

Or if I eat 1700 calories a day....and burn off 1000 a day ...would it still equal to a 2 pound weight loss?
 
the thing with weight loss is that nothing is exact (well ok maybe if you are gonna be anal about measuring and weighting EVERYTHING).
Weight loss is a moving average, that means if you eat like that for 1 week it may take another week or two to show up. Also things like menstrual times and colds etc can make you gain/loose a fair bit.

But the general gist is that yeah you will loose the weight at that rate. you got the math correct :)
eating 1700 and using 2700 means 2lb a week loss :)
 
Just 2 more questions though...

Is it ok if I ate 1800 calories a day, and burned off 1000, that would still equal to a 2lb weight loss right?

And is it better if i stick to the same number of calories per day..or could I switch it up ...fewer on some days and a bit more on others.?
 
don't get hung up on the numbers too much.. it will make you crazy... .3500 calories technically = 1lb of fat bt 10 calories can make a difference on the scale...

you're best served by being consistent with your calories and behavior...
 
There is a concept called calorie cycling where you rotate through eating 3 levels of calories - so you have some higher cal days and some lower cal days. The thought is that if you cycle your cals up and down a bit on a daily basis you avoid a stagnant metabolism. It also gives you a bit of wiggle room so you aren't overly concerned with hitting an exact cal target every day.
 
Of course my personal problem with calorie cycling is that the higher cal days are so much more numberous than the lower cal ones.
 
Ok ..thank you

But I just have one final question,
so if i wanted to lose weight by exercising using my example from before...if i ate 1700 calories...would i have to burn off 1700 plus 1000
or just burn off 1000..and leave the remaining 700
...burn 2,700 cals a day or just 1000?
 
lol you sound confused. you burn about 2500 calories a day by sitting on your ass already. Then you do exercise to burn say another 500 to make 3000. thats a total of 3000 burnt in one day.
Now you eat say 2000 calories in that same day, which means you have still got 1000 burnt.
1000 a day burnt * 7 days = 7000 calories burnt in a week which means you end up loosing 2lb.

Try looking at this to work it out.
 
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