How much calories do i burn in a day
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poonamsonii21 wrote: »Well guys even my fitnesspal says i burn 500 calories in 1 hour...
MFP is an estimate too and many people have found that the calorie burns it provides are overestimates.
But you're an adult. If you want to assume you're burning 500 calories an hour, go right ahead. You can always adjust later if you find that it is keeping you from meeting your goals.4 -
poonamsonii21 wrote: »Lillymoo01 wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »
A 3 hour walk will not burn 1500 calories unless you are large and walking very quickly. It takes me around 5 hours of walking to burn 1000 calories.
I burn 500 calorie in one hour brisk walking..my heart rate monitor says so
Unlikely. I mean, yes, I'm smaller than you, but considering that I barely burned 500 running a 10K yesterday, in 78 minutes, I don't believe for a minute that three hours of walking will burn 1500 calories.
By contrast, I don't even burn 1500 when I run a half marathon.1 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »fat2fitshley wrote: »Do you weigh 78 pounds at 5' 2"? If so I don't see why you're trying to lose weight in the first place...
78 kg = 172 pounds
Thanks, that makes more sense. I didn't see kg any where in this thread. Oops!0 -
poonamsonii21 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »Ok what will i do...one whole day i will wear my heart rate monitor and check how many calories i m burning in a day ok guys
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HRMs don't work like that.
Why
The only relationship between HR and calorie burn where the calculations apply is the aerobic exercise zone steady-state same HR for 2-4 min.
Anything below that zone like daily life is inflated.
Anything above that zone like anaerobic lifting or intervals is inflated.
And anything on the edges of that valid zone starts losing accuracy too.
Which is likely why your long walk was inflated, usually at bottom of aerobic zone so inflated.
Now, if you used the MFP entry that was really valid (say you reached 4mph eventually, but you only walked 10.5 miles in 3 hrs - it's logged as 3.5 mph, not 4) then that would be more correct.
If it does match, then great, your HRM is decent, but usually HR would start rising during 3 hr walk and throw off the calculations. Because pace and calorie burn didn't change, but HR went up anyway.
But if any of that was part of daily life walking, MFP already expected you to do some daily so it accounted for it already - you don't add it in again.
Again - what database entry are you using?3 -
poonamsonii21 wrote: »Well guys even my fitnesspal says i burn 500 calories in 1 hour...
MFP exercise calories are highly inflated.
If you don't believe us and want to keep disagreeing/arguing, just eat those calories back for a month and record your weight loss weekly. You have to be able to work with your own data. Nobody can do this for you.4 -
poonamsonii21 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »Lillymoo01 wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »
A 3 hour walk will not burn 1500 calories unless you are large and walking very quickly. It takes me around 5 hours of walking to burn 1000 calories.
This does seem really high -- I just plugged some dummy stats into a calorie calculator and 3 hours of walking for a 25-year-old 200 pound woman was just about 1,100 (of course, this doesn't take distance into account and that's key).
My heart rate shows
No it doesn't - it counts heartbeats not calories.
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poonamsonii21 wrote: »Well guys even my fitnesspal says i burn 500 calories in 1 hour...
No it doesn't. I just put in your stats and it said 3005 -
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Hmm..suzannesimmons3 wrote: »cerise_noir wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »Well guys even my fitnesspal says i burn 500 calories in 1 hour...
MFP exercise calories are highly inflated.
If you don't believe us and want to keep disagreeing/arguing, just eat those calories back for a month and record your weight loss weekly. You have to be able to work with your own data. Nobody can do this for you.
She can't even decide on a diet...its been opinions on 5 eggs for breakfast and then 5 cubes of cheese.
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poonamsonii21 wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »Well guys even my fitnesspal says i burn 500 calories in 1 hour...
No it doesn't. I just put in your stats and it said 300
Ok...so 300 is confirmed or juzt an accuration
300 is if you're actually walking briskly AKA covering more than 3.5 miles an hour.
In 3 hours how far do you walk?
Speed matters.1 -
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OP, why do you keep insisting on making this so difficult? Why do you keep asking questions and then arguing with the answers you get?
Plug your stats into mfp and log your food, whatever food you want to eat. Try to eat a reasonably balanced diet for health and satiety. Log your walking and eat back those calories. Do this for 4 weeks.
If after 4 weeks you are happy with how things are going, keep at it. If you are losing too fast or too slow, eat back a little more or a little less of your exercise calories. Continue to judge your accuracy and tweak your numbers based on your results.
You will never get the accurate numbers you are looking for from a calculator or formula, or an accessory (unless you live in a lab). Accuracy comes from experience, trial, and error.11 -
did you actually set the 3 hour walk up as an actual activity? I ask as I wonder if 1500 is from midnight to that point in time.1
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poonamsonii21 wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »Well guys even my fitnesspal says i burn 500 calories in 1 hour...
No it doesn't. I just put in your stats and it said 300
Ok...so 300 is confirmed or juzt an accuration
Nobody can confirm how many calories you're burning with exercise. They are all just estimates (some better than others) that you will have to confirm against your real life results.1 -
OP, why do you keep insisting on making this so difficult? Why do you keep asking questions and then arguing with the answers you get?
Plug your stats into mfp and log your food, whatever food you want to eat. Try to eat a reasonably balanced diet for health and satiety. Log your walking and eat back those calories. Do this for 4 weeks.
If after 4 weeks you are happy with how things are going, keep at it. If you are losing too fast or too slow, eat back a little more or a little less of your exercise calories. Continue to judge your accuracy and tweak your numbers based on your results.
You will never get the accurate numbers you are looking for from a calculator or formula, or an accessory (unless you live in a lab). Accuracy comes from experience, trial, and error.
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poonamsonii21 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »Ok what will i do...one whole day i will wear my heart rate monitor and check how many calories i m burning in a day ok guys
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HRMs don't work like that.
Why
Because HRM stands for heart rate monitor, not calories expended monitor. To accurately measure calories you need to go to a lab where they will strap a mask on your face to measure how much oxygen you breathe in and how much CO2 you breathe out, while you walk on a treadmill.0 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »Lillymoo01 wrote: »poonamsonii21 wrote: »
A 3 hour walk will not burn 1500 calories unless you are large and walking very quickly. It takes me around 5 hours of walking to burn 1000 calories.
I burn 500 calorie in one hour brisk walking..my heart rate monitor says so
They are known to be very inaccurate
I just stopped using my fitness tracker all together. What's the dam point.
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OP, my husband used to be well over 300 pounds and he would burn 1200 calories in a 3 hour walk. he would walk maybe 3-3.5 mph. Not sure if that's accurate but for you to burn 1500 in 3 hours sounds extreme. Be on the dafe side at don't count on that, cut it in half.2
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OP, why do you keep insisting on making this so difficult? Why do you keep asking questions and then arguing with the answers you get?
Plug your stats into mfp and log your food, whatever food you want to eat. Try to eat a reasonably balanced diet for health and satiety. Log your walking and eat back those calories. Do this for 4 weeks.
If after 4 weeks you are happy with how things are going, keep at it. If you are losing too fast or too slow, eat back a little more or a little less of your exercise calories. Continue to judge your accuracy and tweak your numbers based on your results.
You will never get the accurate numbers you are looking for from a calculator or formula, or an accessory (unless you live in a lab). Accuracy comes from experience, trial, and error.
Exactly.
OP please stop focussing on all of these (irrelevant) details like how many eggs you can eat in how many hours, and just do this for a while. I promise you it works.1 -
Just use the app, enter in your information and follow it. See what works and what doesn't. It doesn't get much easier than that.2
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rickiimarieee wrote: »I've walked for miles and miles in 2 and 1/2 hours. I think I walked a 15 mile trail and I didn't burn over a thousand. I think I burned like 700 something.
But you look like you have no more weight to lose. Your Profile picture is stunning!1 -
@karintalley thank you so much that's really kind!! I unfortunately do have some more weight to lose. It's a pouch gathered at my lower belly.if that would just disappear I'd be more than happy! I'm about 136 right now wanting to be down 125!2
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You posted about heart rate monitors earlier today. The answers you're looking for are in that post.
Eat food, track your calories according to MyFitnessPal, work out, lose weight.
Don't do military, egg, or any other crash diets, especially since you're vegan.
Don't trust your fitness coach or nutritionist, or whoever told you to do the egg diet a couple of weeks ago.
Don't trust your heart rate monitor, because you said you'd only wear it for one day, and they're not accurate.1 -
rickiimarieee wrote: »I've walked for miles and miles in 2 and 1/2 hours. I think I walked a 15 mile trail and I didn't burn over a thousand. I think I burned like 700 something.
That sounds more like it. When I walked for 2.5 hours it showed I burned about 600 cal.1 -
So what is it that you're asking, really?1
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OP, why do you keep insisting on making this so difficult? Why do you keep asking questions and then arguing with the answers you get?
I'm convinced she is a troll account. She posts this same type of stuff so much, I recognize her name and know what she is gonna ask before I click into the thread.
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Let's say you're moderately active. You should be eating around 1700 calories and not eating back any exercise calories (they are already factored into the 1700).0
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You're burning closer to 250 calories walking 3 miles. Sorry, it sucks. Key is to not eat the junk in the first place.0
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