How are you guys burning 500+ calories

This is not true...who told you that being obese makes you burn more then a thin person??? smh

Ok this is about the dumbest thing I've read on MFP in a long while. SMH.

Nearly the dumbest, heard someone recommend the 2,4,6,8 diet recently. How can someone not appreciate that carrying an extra 100lbs on you at all times makes ur body work a little harder?

...lmao I must know what the 2 4 6 8 diet is.

200 cals one day, 400 cals next, 600.. etc etc then repeat lol beyond ridiculous.. its stavation

Firstly yes if you weigh more you will burn more because you are carrying more weight. That should be obvious to whoever said its not the case. It's the reason why bigger people get a bigger calorie allowance.

Like the 2nd or 3rd poster I also use the elliptical which is great for burning a lot of cals. I compared MFP to my Jawbone's exercise count and the numbers are identical so I just go with what MFP says but I don't eat them back as I use my exercise to create a deficit. I hope this makes sense to you.

Currently I weight 147 pounds and one hour on my elliptical (on max resistance) burns at least 600 calories whereas if I did an hour of yoga it would burn only 150.

5 Pages deep and we are still talking about the "This is not true...who told you that being obese makes you burn more then a thin person??? smh "???

Unfortunately for the girl who said this, as amazing as your *kitten* looks in your picture, Einstein settled this argument long ago.

Mass * Speed(Squared) = Energy. As an engineer I use this formula pretty often, and will vouch for its 100% correctness. Assuming the exact same exercise and exact same speed the Mass will cause there to be more energy involved. While there are other variables they are not significant enough to change the outcome. Higher metabolism and more muscle in the fit person will actually help the more fit person be a more efficient calorie burning machine, it is just not enough to tip the energy scale in their favor though when talking about someone who is obese.

BUT, this does ASSUME same speed and same exercise. To the girl with awesome abs credit, the more fit person is able to use more energy by doing it faster or including more exercise (keep core tight, add external weight,...). So a more fit person can most certainly burn more calories in the same amount of time.

So someone significantly larger (we are talking about obese) will NEED more energy to perform the same thing, but someone more fit can perform more and burn just as much.

By being really fat.

I go by my HRM....and in between every set I do 30 sec cardio intervals then a 15 sec break then repeat on every exercise I do. My DR recommended the HRM to watch my HR in general due to other problems with my asthma medication. My workout varies from 60 mins up to 120 and when I am finished I am drenched. Also my workouts are weight lifting with the cardio (burpees, squat thrust, mountain climbers, squat jumps, high knees, air frogs* etc etc)

I'm burning about 400 calories a day using the treadmill for an hour and 20 to 25 minutes of weight lifting. The more weight you lose the less calories you will be burning.

Yeah...I'm lucky to burn 300 in 30 minutes on the elliptical.

A lot of depends on your size and what activity you are doing.

Swimming for an hour burns ~500 calories. Zumba burns ~600 per hour. Cycling burns ~400 per hour. Hiking is one of my favorites, since I often hike 5 miles+ on hilly or mountainous terrain. Carry a backpack with emergency supplies, granola bars & water and you're carrying 10 lbs and burning even more.

My goal is to have my exercise diary look like this:
Swim: 1 hr 6:30am MWF, 1 hr 4:30pm TTh (2500 calories)
Zumba: 1 hr 4:30pm MW (1200 calories)
Bike: 1 hr 6:30am TTh, 1 hr 4:30pm F (1200 calories)
Hiking: 3 hrs on Saturday or Sunday (1689 calories)
Total calories from exercising: 6589 calories/week, or an extra 941 calories per day

I'm having a lot of trouble waking up early to go exercise in the AM before work, so it's ended up being 120 minutes straight at the gym after work. I'm pretty beat after that since I've gone from fairly sedentary to 2 hours 5x a week. Hopefully as it warms up I'll be better at getting up early in the morning to get to the gym. I'm not getting home until 6:30-7 and since I cook dinner, I don't end up eating until 8 it seems. And I'm starving while cooking, which is awful. I just need to remember that in the morning when I don't want to get out of bed

PS- About half my zumba class is done with weights, and swimming develops muscle, which is why you see a lack of weight training. After I've been swimming for a month or two regularly I'm going to swap in weight training for biking I think.

a 500 calorie burn is relatively easy to come by...a good hour of moderate cardio work would burn around 500 calories for most people. I can cycle @ around 13-15 MPH and hit 500 calories in about an hours time. A 60 minute jog would do it, etc.

If you're only burning 30 calories OP then you really need to up your duration. Even if I go for a pretty leisurely 3 MPH paced walk I will burn around 300 calories or so in an hour.