kcal burned through excersise

maria76l
maria76l Posts: 32 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
I've read that you have to burn more kcal than you eat to loose weight, if this is correct im never going to loose weight :-(
the mfp says my kcal per day is 1200 which is fine but today ive only had time for 30 min on the cross trainer which burned 427 kcal.
How am i going to fund the time to burn more than 1200 kcal a day.
Thanks guys
maria x

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  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    That's not how it works, try reading this first:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    maria76l wrote: »
    I've read that you have to burn more kcal than you eat to loose weight, if this is correct im never going to loose weight :-(
    the mfp says my kcal per day is 1200 which is fine but today ive only had time for 30 min on the cross trainer which burned 427 kcal.
    How am i going to fund the time to burn more than 1200 kcal a day.
    Thanks guys
    maria x

    Luckily - your body burns calories all day long...just by existing.

    Did your heart just beat? You burned calories.

    Did you just breathe? You burned calories.

    Exercise can (moderately) increase the amount of calories you burn in a given day, but you don't burn calories SOLELY by exercising.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    You are burning calories just living. If you eat at 1200 a day, you will lose weight, even if you don't do additional exercise. MFP just don't show what you are burning every day because they like having numbers above zero.
  • maria76l
    maria76l Posts: 32 Member
    Thanks guys
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