BURNING 3000 CALORIES A DAY??
elizabethbettycooper
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So this girl I follow on instagram lost a significant amount of weight in 3 months and she did thiis by eating 3 decent healthy meals a
day (she also meal preps) but works out to burn at least 3000 (yes, 3k) calories a day? Is that a bad idea?? She burns about 1K + per sessions (she works out twice a day) plus she walks home from the gym which is about an hour's journey. Also she doesn't verbally claim to lose 3k calories, but it is what she shows her fitbit says after her workouts and no her meals aren't worth 4k calories, they're about 1.2k at the most.
day (she also meal preps) but works out to burn at least 3000 (yes, 3k) calories a day? Is that a bad idea?? She burns about 1K + per sessions (she works out twice a day) plus she walks home from the gym which is about an hour's journey. Also she doesn't verbally claim to lose 3k calories, but it is what she shows her fitbit says after her workouts and no her meals aren't worth 4k calories, they're about 1.2k at the most.
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I'm not saying she's a liar but... an average marathon runner burns 2600 calories during a marathon. That's 4.5 hours straight of jogging. Is she spending over 5 hours at the gym every day without any breaks?
https://www.theactivetimes.com/how-many-calories-does-running-marathon-burn7 -
Assuming your body can handle it (that is, you're sufficiently trained, properly nourished, and resting appropriately), there's nothing wrong with having a TDEE of 3,000 calories a day. I don't spend that much time exercising, I'm relatively small, and my TDEE is usually 2,000-2,200 calories a day.
For many people, 3,000 a day would represent a big increase in calorie burn so I wouldn't recommend jumping to it overnight.
The question is how sustainable it would be. If you lose weight this way, you either need to reduce calories significantly when you reach goal or keep up that level of activity. For a good portion of people, jobs, family obligations, and other hobbies might make a long term TDEE of 3,000 calories a day impractical.
Edit: Oops, I read this as 3,000 total per day, not per workout. Sorry, I don't believe that most people could burn 3,000 calories per workout.
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I'll assume you mean 3000 calories TDEE. If she is eating enough (like 2500) it can be an excellent idea. You just need the time and the will to do that amount of excercise which can be a big ask.
A 3000 calorie TDEE isn't that big of a stretch, just means you are active. I've had days where my TDEE was 6000 calories and I doubt I was breaking any records. A TDEE of 3000 wasn't am unusual day for me.8 -
Does the 3000 include her BMR?4
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She burns 3000 in exercise calories, or that's her TDEE?
My TDEE is almost 3000 and I don't do anything crazy for exercise.2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Assuming your body can handle it (that is, you're sufficiently trained, properly nourished, and resting appropriately), there's nothing wrong with having a TDEE of 3,000 calories a day. I don't spend that much time exercising, I'm relatively small, and my TDEE is usually 2,000-2,200 calories a day.
For many people, 3,000 a day would represent a big increase in calorie burn so I wouldn't recommend jumping to it overnight.
The question is how sustainable it would be. If you lose weight this way, you either need to reduce calories significantly when you reach goal or keep up that level of activity. For a good portion of people, jobs, family obligations, and other hobbies might make a long term TDEE of 3,000 calories a day impractical.
Edit: Oops, I read this as 3,000 total per day, not per workout. Sorry, I don't believe that most people could burn 3,000 calories per workout.
She didn't say per workout she said per day so I still assume she means TDEE.0 -
Is it possible? Maybe
Is it a bad idea? *kitten* Yeah
Is it maintainable? *kitten* No3 -
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@zoekravitz can you please clarify if you mean she has a 3000 calorie TDEE (it includes her BMR) or if you mean she burns 3000 calories from exercise alone and her TDEE is more like 4500. It's a bit vague right now.0
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@janejellyroll @suzannesimmons3 @toxikon @Aaron_K123 @dym1 @not_a_runner @RuNaRoUnDaFiEld please check the edit I added0
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I don't see any edit.....1
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@not_a_runner Just added it0
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I can get a total of 3k per day if I have an active day with a decent workout1
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Why don't you link her IG here so we can check it out ourselves?
Unless she's working out for HOURS and hours a day, her claims are wildly exaggerated.5 -
So 1500 per workout? Is she in the gym 8 hours a day or something?! Even at dance school we didn't have dance all day every day, there were other classes and obviously with dance some are less strenuous than others. It's highly unlikely I got 3000 calories on any day from the dance alone.1
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It must be 3000 including her BMR.... else she'd have to be working out all day.
I once burned 2700 in one day - was in a Fitbit competition and did 42k steps...but that included my BMR.
It took me 6 hours to do all those steps. (my burn isn't great in general because I'm petite in maintenance and also am in my 40s)1 -
Well burning 3000 calories per day from excercise alone is extreme but assuming she isn't just wrong about that or bullsh*tting it would still be okay provided her 3 meals a day add up to around 4000 calories. If, however, she is eating like 1500 calories a day then no that isn't healthy or sustainable. Without knowing how much she is eating hard to say.
Athletes have burn numbers like that daily, they just also eat enough to sustain it. Like athletes though her job must be working out if she is actually pulling those numbers.1 -
do you want loose skin? because that's how you get loose skin.
Also, does she even job, bro?13 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
I'd say it's also in how you know this person to follow them. Are they an "instagram model" or fitness person? If so, those people probably do spend a significant portion of their day in the gym. It's their job.
If it's just a person off the street who you know in some kinda way and they work a normal job and this is just their after work workouts that are burning so much it COULD be an inaccurate reading or something like that.1 -
@ginababin she is not an ig model or nor a fitness person, she's just on a weight loss journey acc from being overweight and lost most of the weight within 3 months of doing the above.0
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Another consideration - if she's counting on her Fitbit or gym machines to determine her "calories burned" value, they can be notoriously inflated.3
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zoekravitz wrote: »So this girl I follow on instagram lost a significant amount of weight in 3 months and she did thiis by eating 3 decent healthy meals a
day (she also meal preps) but works out to burn at least 3000 (yes, 3k) calories a day? Is that a bad idea?? She burns about 1K + per sessions (she works out twice a day) plus she walks home from the gym which is about an hour's journey. Also she doesn't verbally claim to lose 3k calories, but it is what she shows her fitbit says after her workouts and no her meals aren't worth 4k calories, they're about 1.2k at the most.
There's no way she's burning 3K with exercise...a fitbit is going to show total calories, not just exercise...you burn calories 24/7. To actually burn 3K calories per day with just exercise, I'd have to ride 100 miles on my bike daily...which means I'd basically be working out all day long...and I'd probably die.4 -
zoekravitz wrote: »@janejellyroll @suzannesimmons3 @toxikon @Aaron_K123 @dym1 @not_a_runner @RuNaRoUnDaFiEld please check the edit I added
Assuming she is accurately estimating her calories burned (which is a big assumption), there's nothing wrong with using 3,000 calorie a day (lots of people do it) or exercising a lot.
As long as you're nourishing yourself, not doing too much too quickly, and allowing adequate rest, it's perfectly healthy to be active.1 -
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Rest assured that she's not burning 3000 calories per day in exercise.1
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I can't imagine burning that much without being on a vacation where my entire focus was on working out so yeah either she has no job and this is all she does or she is wrong about how much she is burning. I'd think the latter would be more likely.
I have, at one point in my life, had that level of burn sustained over a two week period and despite being in massive caloric deficit because of it I was fine. Is it practical? No. Is it long term sustainable? No. Is it going to destroy you in some way? No, probably not.
I did a 200 mile backpacking trip in mountainous backcountry carrying supplies for 7 days at a time (popping out mid-trip to resupply then hoping right back in). I could only carry so much food because of the weight of it, I chose calorie dense or freeze dried items to maximize calories to weight while still being edible. Even then I could only get about 2500-3000 calories per day. I was hiking probably average 15 miles per day over rough terrain so plenty of elevation gain and loss as well. In addition to that I was carrying at times 40 pounds of additional weight. My estimated TDEE was something like 5000-6000 and my NEAT was 1800 so I was burning like 3-4000 calories from exercise per day for 14 days straight.
It took a while for my weight to settle after the trip from the refeed I gourged myself on afterwords and the balancing of my water weight to settle but when it did I had lost about 10 pounds. I didn't die, I didn't feel bad...in fact if anything I felt really good. But yeah my entire day was nothing but get up, hike, eat, hike, eat, hike, eat, sleep. I'm also a 6' tall 170 pound guy carrying an extra 40 pounds.
People who through hike the pacific crest trail (from Mexico to Canada) do longer days than I did and they go for about 3 months. They do get a bit physically wrecked though and that is a pretty crazy extreme thing to do.1 -
3000 calories alone and not the BMR would to me be nearly impossible unless you moved into the gym. Calorie burn with any device is never accurate and I dont really rely on it. Just like my fitbit it is a tool. I have been spending 1 hour on the elliptical doing interval training. 2 minutes up and 2 minutes down. The UP is at 12 incline and resistance is at 10. the down is 7 and 7. The gym limits workout to 1 hour and the machine says I burn about 800 calories in that hour. My fitbit is behind on the elliptical by about 100 calories so 700 for that device. When I am doing weights I use my fitbit as well and after about 1 hour of weight training I have burned about 500 calories so it says.
I just dont see how anyone could do that unless they were body building and really working out long and hard in the gym.Like someone else said loose skin if you lose weight to fast.2 -
Yeah, it could still be accurate. My TDEE is like near 2000, so if she's working out twice a day it seems reasonable to me that she would burn another 1,000 if she's beast moding it. Which she probably is to lose a significant amount of weight in 3 months.
I don't think it's unhealthy, but could be unsustainable depending on the person and their goals.
Can't really comment on her meals because it's just instagram. If I were only intaking what I posted on instagram I would be...dead.0 -
zoekravitz wrote: »So this girl I follow on instagram lost a significant amount of weight in 3 months and she did thiis by eating 3 decent healthy meals a
day (she also meal preps) but works out to burn at least 3000 (yes, 3k) calories a day? Is that a bad idea?? She burns about 1K + per sessions (she works out twice a day) plus she walks home from the gym which is about an hour's journey. Also she doesn't verbally claim to lose 3k calories, but it is what she shows her fitbit says after her workouts and no her meals aren't worth 4k calories, they're about 1.2k at the most.
I think it is a poor path to go down where you set out to burn 3,000 calories and eat that little for weight loss.
If she lost a lot of weight in 3 months it probably is not healthy or sustainable. I think her behavior screams bad idea if not disordered behavior.
She could be exaggerating though.
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