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gmoore1986
gmoore1986 Posts: 4
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im currently on 2,000 cals a day with about 30 odd reamining a day i want to loose about half to 1 lb a week if poss how much exercise do i roughly need to do a day and how many calories would i need to burn?

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  • bevtyndall
    bevtyndall Posts: 72 Member
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    bump
  • pinktoesjb
    pinktoesjb Posts: 302 Member
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    mfp will work that out for you based on age, weight, activity etc if you use the set up tools in your account settings.

    you should aim to eat back some of your exercise calories anyway
  • JamesDanek
    JamesDanek Posts: 95 Member
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    That depends is that 2000 cals a maintenance level or a deficit level?

    The broad calculation is that your body needs to burn 3500 calories more than it consumes to loose a pound of weight. However you achieve that deficit is up to you.
  • gmoore1986
    gmoore1986 Posts: 4
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    its a maintenance level james
  • khall86790
    khall86790 Posts: 1,100 Member
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    its a maintenance level james

    Then you'd need to eat around 1700 cals per day to lose half an lb per week. However, this is a rough guess. You can work this out yourself with a TDEE calculator (use google) or with MFP.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    Let MFP do the sums for you! Plug in your stats, set yourself to lose 1lb a week and meet the daily calorie goal it gives you, eating back all or most of your exercise calories, as the deficit is already built in.

    Alternatively, if you want to stay eating around 2,000 calories a day and get your deficit entirely from exercise, you'll need to burn an average of 500 calories a day to lose 1lb a week. Depending on your current stats, that could be as much as 50 minutes of running or an hour and a half of walking.

    The best way to do it is combine eating a bit less with moving a bit more.
  • JamesDanek
    JamesDanek Posts: 95 Member
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    its a maintenance level james

    Then you'd need to eat around 1700 cals per day to lose half an lb per week. However, this is a rough guess. You can work this out yourself with a TDEE calculator (use google) or with MFP.

    Agreed or maintain the 2000 calories and do an average of 250 to calories of exercise a day (without eating back) to achieve the same thing.

    Please do bear in mind that this is all based on estimations and you will need to tweak it to get it just right

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