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mlrosborough
mlrosborough Posts: 4 Member
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WOW, I read you must burn 3,500 calories to lose 1lb of fat ! I hope that's accurate !

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Yep
  • pinggolfer96
    pinggolfer96 Posts: 2,248 Member
    Or eat 3500 cals less. Burning 3500 is harder lol
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    pinggolfer96 wrote: »
    Or eat 3500 cals less. Burning 3500 is harder lol

    I guess that would be the "debate" part of this thread. I run a lot and I eat a lot. I guess if I didn't run so much, maybe I wouldn't be so hungry all of the time, but in my mind, I feel like burning the calories is the easier part.
  • Katzedernacht
    Katzedernacht Posts: 266 Member
    edited April 2018
    I don't like eating so little so my deficit is only 300 calories, I gotta make sure to work out more and walk more to make the CO part of CI bigger , it's been working, I have been losing steadily, 1 lb every week and a bit.

    For me it's way easier to eat just a wee less and consciously move way more :P
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    crazyravr wrote: »
    lporter229 wrote: »
    pinggolfer96 wrote: »
    Or eat 3500 cals less. Burning 3500 is harder lol

    I guess that would be the "debate" part of this thread. I run a lot and I eat a lot. I guess if I didn't run so much, maybe I wouldn't be so hungry all of the time, but in my mind, I feel like burning the calories is the easier part.

    There will be the time when you can not run a lot and burn all those calories, and I hope that time never comes be it to myself or you, but when / if it does..... Then what???

    I guess I will have to get used to eating less! (That will be hard...)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    mlrosborough wrote: »
    WOW, I read you must burn 3,500 calories to lose 1lb of fat ! I hope that's accurate !

    You need a 3500 calorie deficit from your maintenance calories per week to lose about 1 Lb. You can do that with exercise and keeping your diet the same (a lot of people are pretty bad about that) or you can eat less.

    IMO, it is generally more efficient to eat less or have some kind of combo than just trying to burn it off with exercise. With exercise, injuries happen...you need rest and recovery days...life in general happens and you miss workouts or you can't do what you intended to do, etc.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    lporter229 wrote: »
    pinggolfer96 wrote: »
    Or eat 3500 cals less. Burning 3500 is harder lol

    I guess that would be the "debate" part of this thread. I run a lot and I eat a lot. I guess if I didn't run so much, maybe I wouldn't be so hungry all of the time, but in my mind, I feel like burning the calories is the easier part.

    Agreed. much easier to burn more than to eat less, IMO.
  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    mlrosborough wrote: »
    WOW, I read you must burn 3,500 calories to lose 1lb of fat ! I hope that's accurate !

    Well, a gram of fat is 9 calories, and there's 454 grams in a pound, so there's 4086 calories in a pound of fat. Just saying. :+1:

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