Calorie Deficit

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geminigarcia199017
geminigarcia199017 Posts: 529 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How to burn a calorie deficit through working out.Please help

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    edited February 2016
    You've asked this question several times. What is it about the answers you've been given are you still having trouble with? If you're more specific we can try and help you.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    You don't have to work out to have a calorie deficit. A deficit just means consuming fewer calories than what your body burns all day long, in a 24 hour period.

    If you enter your info and goals accurately here at MFP, the daily calorie goal you're given has you at a calorie deficit already, and that's without exercise. Meaning you could eat all those cals, all the way to goal every day, do zero exercise, and you'll lose weight, because you're eating less than you burn. If you do log exercise, those burned cals are added back into your daily goal - you are supposed to eat them, or at least a portion of them, back, bringing your net cals up to or near goal. You're still in deficit, well fueled for workouts and daily life, and still losing weight.

    That help?
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  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    You've asked this question several times. What is it about the answers you've been given are you still having trouble with? If you're more specific we can try and help you.

    It took me a while to understand this calorie deficit. I am new to this concept. All I know is I have to eat fewer calories than my body burns in a 24 hour period.

    Correct. Now, to get the number of calories that is, you can either plug your numbers into MFP (height weight etc) or you can plug them in here (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and do it manually. MFP is significantly easier. Just eat what it tells you to, logging as flawlessly as possible, and you'll lose weight no matter what type of foods you eat or whether you exercise.
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  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    CoffeeNCardio wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    You've asked this question several times. What is it about the answers you've been given are you still having trouble with? If you're more specific we can try and help you.

    It took me a while to understand this calorie deficit. I am new to this concept. All I know is I have to eat fewer calories than my body burns in a 24 hour period.

    Correct. Now, to get the number of calories that is, you can either plug your numbers into MFP (height weight etc) or you can plug them in here (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and do it manually. MFP is significantly easier. Just eat what it tells you to, logging as flawlessly as possible, and you'll lose weight no matter what type of foods you eat or whether you exercise.

    But eating more healthy food rather than just any type of foods helps more.How many times do you workout. I am planning to work out 3-4 times a week.Losing weight is a 90/10% rule where it's 90% diet & 10% working out.

    As long as the foods you eat provide the needed nutrition, there's no benefit to eating certain foods over other foods. You won't lose more weight with the same calories if you eat strictly "healthy" foods rather than a variety.

    Weight loss can be 100% diet. Exercise is good for overall body health but it isn't required for weight loss.
  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    CoffeeNCardio wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    You've asked this question several times. What is it about the answers you've been given are you still having trouble with? If you're more specific we can try and help you.

    It took me a while to understand this calorie deficit. I am new to this concept. All I know is I have to eat fewer calories than my body burns in a 24 hour period.

    Correct. Now, to get the number of calories that is, you can either plug your numbers into MFP (height weight etc) or you can plug them in here (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and do it manually. MFP is significantly easier. Just eat what it tells you to, logging as flawlessly as possible, and you'll lose weight no matter what type of foods you eat or whether you exercise.

    But eating more healthy food rather than just any type of foods helps more.How many times do you workout. I am planning to work out 3-4 times a week.Losing weight is a 90/10% rule where it's 90% diet & 10% working out.

    Eating healthy food IS better for NUTRITION. For weight loss alone, a calorie is a calorie. Obviously we should all seek to have better nutrition for health reasons, however, CICO is a law of thermodynamics, and that applies to all food types equally. If you burn more calories than you eat, you will lose weight. Period.

    Exercise is the same. It's great for getting more calories burned (so you can eat more) and is good for overall health, but it is not required for weight loss. You burn calories just existing. The exercise calories burned are an additive to that in regards to weight loss, nothing more. So yes 90/10 is a pretty good rule.

    I walk/jog every day for at least an hour. Longer if I walk slow, shorter if I really push myself to go as fast as I can (because it burns more calories). I do this because it's healthy and because it earns me more calories to eat and food is delicious.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    CoffeeNCardio wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    You've asked this question several times. What is it about the answers you've been given are you still having trouble with? If you're more specific we can try and help you.

    It took me a while to understand this calorie deficit. I am new to this concept. All I know is I have to eat fewer calories than my body burns in a 24 hour period.

    Correct. Now, to get the number of calories that is, you can either plug your numbers into MFP (height weight etc) or you can plug them in here (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and do it manually. MFP is significantly easier. Just eat what it tells you to, logging as flawlessly as possible, and you'll lose weight no matter what type of foods you eat or whether you exercise.

    But eating more healthy food rather than just any type of foods helps more.How many times do you workout. I am planning to work out 3-4 times a week.Losing weight is a 90/10% rule where it's 90% diet & 10% working out.

    Eating a range of healthy foods helps ensure your diet is nutritionally sound and you are eating sufficient protein and fats

    sticking to your calorie defecit is how you lose the weight

    have you started working out or is this still in planning phase? why does it matter how often others workout? It's what you can stick to that matters? Why don't you go workout now .. that'll be once

    as for a calorie defecit

    eat to the calories that MFP has given you based on your personal statistics, stated activity level (does not include exercise) and weight loss goal per week

    - lets say for example sake you burn 2000 calories in a day (just by living, no working out) and MFP gives you 1500 calories to lose 1lb a week (based on 3500 calories = 1lb)

    so you are eating 1500 calories which is 500 calories per day under what you've told MFP you burn (via your height, weight, activity level etc)

    you then go workout for an hour burning 350 calories (which will be around 50% of the exercise database on MFP which generally overestimates). you enter that in your exercise diary - MFP goes hang on you've burned 2350 calories today and not the 2000 I was expecting- here eat them

    you then eat those 350 calories back

    so in total you have eaten 1850 calories but you are still on a 500 calorie defecit because your body has burned the 2000 + 350 from exercise ... so still on track to lose 1lb a week
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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    CoffeeNCardio wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    You've asked this question several times. What is it about the answers you've been given are you still having trouble with? If you're more specific we can try and help you.

    It took me a while to understand this calorie deficit. I am new to this concept. All I know is I have to eat fewer calories than my body burns in a 24 hour period.

    Correct. Now, to get the number of calories that is, you can either plug your numbers into MFP (height weight etc) or you can plug them in here (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and do it manually. MFP is significantly easier. Just eat what it tells you to, logging as flawlessly as possible, and you'll lose weight no matter what type of foods you eat or whether you exercise.

    But eating more healthy food rather than just any type of foods helps more.How many times do you workout. I am planning to work out 3-4 times a week.Losing weight is a 90/10% rule where it's 90% diet & 10% working out.

    Eating a range of healthy foods helps ensure your diet is nutritionally sound and you are eating sufficient protein and fats

    sticking to your calorie defecit is how you lose the weight

    have you started working out or is this still in planning phase? why does it matter how often others workout? It's what you can stick to that matters? Why don't you go workout now .. that'll be once

    as for a calorie defecit

    eat to the calories that MFP has given you based on your personal statistics, stated activity level (does not include exercise) and weight loss goal per week

    - lets say for example sake you burn 2000 calories in a day (just by living, no working out) and MFP gives you 1500 calories to lose 1lb a week (based on 3500 calories = 1lb)

    so you are eating 1500 calories which is 500 calories per day under what you've told MFP you burn (via your height, weight, activity level etc)

    you then go workout for an hour burning 350 calories (which will be around 50% of the exercise database on MFP which generally overestimates). you enter that in your exercise diary - MFP goes hang on you've burned 2350 calories today and not the 2000 I was expecting- here eat them

    you then eat those 350 calories back

    so in total you have eaten 1850 calories but you are still on a 500 calorie defecit because your body has burned the 2000 + 350 from exercise ... so still on track to lose 1lb a week

    When I meant planning my workouts is because I have not done any yet.Still getting used to the calories I am eating.

    stop planning - start doing

    :)
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