Cal vs Fat Cal

Nease

In your opinion, professional definitely welcome.
Which is more important to loose calorie or fat calorie?
I've been keeping track for 3 months now via treadmill at home, and I just wanted to make sure I'm keeping track of the right one and this has now crossed my mind. Should I be watching the fatcal burn count or just calorie?

tryclyn

Calories.

operation_cute

definitely calories :flowerforyou:

a4phantom

For weight loss purposes you should focus on calories regardless of what form they come in.

For general health purposes you should get the right amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates, and the right kinds of each (monounsaturated fats good, trans fat and saturated fat bad.) The general guidelines say about 25-30% from fat.

So if you want to lose weight and you burn say 2300 calories per day (living plus exercise,) then you might want to eat 2000 calories per day, and 500 or 600 of them from healthy fats.

BrianSharpe

Calories.

Forget that you ever heard the term "fat burning zone" while it's true that you burn a higher proportion of calories from fat when exercising at low intensity you burn a significantly lower number of calories overall (and usually fewer fat calories too because you're still burning fat as fuel at higher intensities)

http://exercise.about.com/od/weightloss/a/The-Truth-About-The-Fat-Burning-Zone.htm

http://www.builtlean.com/2013/04/01/fat-burning-zone-myth/

http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=1740622b-d130-486c-a4d3-f05d14878ff9

Plus, working out at higher intensities is far more effective in improving cardiovascular health and endurance.

a4phantom

Cutting back on carbs, particularly sugar, may be the most effective way. Minimizing fats is a bad idea which unfortunately dominated diet thinking in the 80's and 90's.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/01/344315405/cutting-back-on-carbs-not-fat-may-lead-to-more-weight-loss