Calories Calculation

jkern9110

Hello friends!

3500 calories burned=1 pound lost, right?

I'm trying to do a quick calculation to see how many calories I'm burning in a week and not consuming. So if my daily calorie intake is 1200 right now, do I assume that a normal person would intake 2000 calories, and that I'm saving 800 calories a day?

Calculation:
Food Savings= 800 calories per day x 7 days = 5600 calories
Exercise= 350 calories burned x 4 days = 1400 calories
total calories burned/saved = 7000 calories per week
7000 calories burned / 3500 calories = 2 pounds lost per week

Let me know your thoughts!

Thanks,
Jess

Mangopickle

Calculate your own BMR for your ht, sex and age. I would set it at sedentary then subtract 500 calories a day. Only chose active if you do an hour of aerobics each day.

rpyle111

You can find a lot of good information out on the main forums describing the basics of BMR/TDEE and calorie deficits. One of the best forum posts that encapsulates the calorie deficit way of thinking is:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

While I stay away from discussing WLS on the main forums, I find them to be great sources of fitness and weight loss information. That is why I prefer this forum to the WLS-specific sites. Eventually, I want to act like a healthy person, not a person defined by my surgery choice.

One of the things I picked up about exercise calories, is that they are often overstated by both machines and MFP's calculator, *and* you have to subtract out the calories you would have burned just sitting still (the portion of your BMR), which reduces the exercise additional calories burned, if that makes sense). All in all, you have the concept right and are going in the right direction.

Rob