Myth or Fact? Simple Math: 3500 calories = one pound? Eat
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to be honest I'm struggling to stick to eating my target calories. I recognised I was overdoing it, so for the last 3 weeks I've been sticking to it, but I'm not enjoying putting on weight. I'm going to stick to it until the end of March, but if I'm still gaining by then I'm going to give it up as a bad job.
My Ki Fit (UK name for BodyMedia's BodyBugg) tells me I have an average daily deficit of 1300 calories when I eat 1500, but I've put on two and a half pounds this week. Some of that will be muscle, but I'm not convinced that the Omron is right when it says I've lost two pounds of fat0 -
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yes ITS TRUE ASK A DOCTOR 3,500 IS ONE POUND0
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Science never said 3500 = 1lb fat. Science said 3500 = 1lb weight loss. Marketing spread the lie of it all being fat.0
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Missed this the first time around. Thank you for this thorough explanation.0
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This is a great post and I'm kind of sad that I didn't get a chance to read it sooner. I think all people trying to lose weight on this site should read this.0
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Thank you! Saving to reread later.0
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Hey, would you be able to provide me a link to the post(s) regarding the question on whether to eat your excercise calories or not? It's something I've been wondering about as well and had trouble finding it.0
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Hey, would you be able to provide me a link to the post(s) regarding the question on whether to eat your excercise calories or not? It's something I've been wondering about as well and had trouble finding it.
Here are some that discuss it (or metabolism in general), but there are many more.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/173853-an-objective-look-at-eating-exercise-calories
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/117726-eating-exercise-cals-slowing-your-weight-loss-read-this
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again0 -
Very nice post!
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Great post Robin. I'm a science journalist, and it''s great to see such a well-written, researched and reasoned post.0
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thank u for the info i love to learn new things to help me out.0
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Saving this to refer back to. Thank you!0
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bump...the baby just woke up and i don't have time to read this right now!!0
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great post! thanx for the info!0
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Thanks so much that was really interesting information.0
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Good stuff. I'm one of those "light" people trying to shed fat. Don't really care about what the scale says at this point (I just figured that out today, I think), I just want the extra fat gone. My new goal is under 20% body fat, maybe in the 18% range if I can get enough training in. Thanks and kudos to the OP!!0
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Thanks Robin, what a well written article, it's a relief to hear that I'm on the right track. Fortunately, as I'm very short and haven't yet built any significant amount of muscle, I'm not invested in the idea of losing weight very quickly; I'm in this for the long term.Really good post Robin. Likewise from a purely thermo-chemical standpoint. the ignition of 1 pound of fat would indeed yield the energy (approximately) required to raise 3500 Kilos of water 1 degree Celsius at one standard atmospheric pressure (air pressure at sea level)0
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