3500 calories equals 1 pound

Being a mommy to a 8.5 month old, how on earth do you find time to burn 3500 calories a day? It just isn't realistic or healthy, IMHO, to even try to keep up with it.

I am not sure every one understood. I track 3500 calories a day, but for actual exercise I only burn about 1200..well a little more recently ti make up for 2 days of not tracking. I am always moving which is how I track so much but the real burn is just as much as all of you so please realize I ask not anorexic, unhealthy, yada yada yada

I quote:
"Right now I burn about 1000 with cardio boxing and 1000 with the treadmill, the other 1500 comes from cleaning and being a mommy to a 8.5 month old who's into everything. Thanks for reading, I know this post is all over the place, sorry! "


go look at the success stories of this forum. notice how they lost 13+ lb over a period of time and are looking great.
if you try to lose that 13lb in two weeks, let me tell you, saggy, dry, and pale skin. you will not look like how you want to. you will have bags under your eyes from exhaustion and your organs will not be able to operate properly. so places won't get that circulation they need and you won't be able to filter out any toxins giving you a dull sickly look.

Right now I burn about 1000 with cardio boxing and 1000 with the treadmill, the other 1500 comes from cleaning and being a mommy to a 8.5 month old who's into everything. Thanks for reading, I know this post is all over the place, sorry!

I think your math may be off, you don't mention how long your work outs are but I find burns like that near impossible to achieve. I have been burning 300 cals in 30 minutes of high intensity and am spent by the end of it. To get 3500 a day I would have to exercise at that intensity about 6 hours thats impossible.

I also think your cleaning and what not would count as normal activity not exercise.

I would have to agree that unless you have a tremendous amount of weight to lose, counting cleaning, etc. as exercise is not viable. It should count as normal daily activity.

Also, you really need to be taking in more calories. Your weight is not going to change with super low calories and massive energy expenditure. Take me for example. I burn on average 1100 calories daily 5 times a week doing 2 hours of competitive swimming workouts. However, I have only been taking in a NET calories of 600-900 per day. I have gained and lost the same 5 lbs for over a year now. I am finally realizing that I need to completely re-work my diet.

You would think that with all of this working out, mass calories burned, and little caloric intake I would be losing weight, right?

WRONG!!! It doesn't work!!!!

Think twice, thrice, or more about your plan and the possible extreme damage you could do to your body. Trust me, there's nothing more in the world I want than to get back to my college weight, but I know it has to be done slowly. So, do it the right way and the healthy way!!!

Technically, it would take me over 3 hours to burn that many calories on a treadmill, but I'm only 112lbs. I think this would be a heart attack waiting to happen. Why put yourself through the agony. I personally think it was a setup, but what do I know.