CICO
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Question(s):
If my daily calorie goal is say, 1500 calories/day
and
by the end of the day I burn 1500 calories/day
theoretically, will I be able to maintain my current weight?
Or,
If my daily calorie goal is say, 1500 calories/day
and
by the end of the day I burn 2250 calories/day
theoretically, will I be able to lose weight?
If my daily calorie goal is say, 1500 calories/day
and
by the end of the day I burn 1500 calories/day
theoretically, will I be able to maintain my current weight?
Or,
If my daily calorie goal is say, 1500 calories/day
and
by the end of the day I burn 2250 calories/day
theoretically, will I be able to lose weight?
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If your calorie goal is 1500 and you burn 1500 then that's like eating 0 calories?2
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TavistockToad wrote: »If your calorie goal is 1500 and you burn 1500 then that's like eating 0 calories?
If you have your MFP goals set to maintain, then you would hold steady at 1500 calories. If you have it set to lose, then you would be burning more than the 1500/day because MFP give you a goal that will, if you're accurate, cause you to reach your goal.
As far as this bit of eating 0 calories, think of it like this:
If you have a car that gets 10 miles to the gallon (for math simplicity) and you put 10 gallons in the tank, then go 100 miles.. It isn't like you put 0 gallons in. It's like you used all the gallons and moved 100 miles.
If that same car already has fuel in the tank (fat stores) and you put in 5 gallons, yet still went 100 miles, you would have used up 5 gallons from the reserve (fat stores) plus the 5 you put in. (Your car would have 'lost weight')6 -
TavistockToad wrote: »If your calorie goal is 1500 and you burn 1500 then that's like eating 0 calories?
No; it’s like eating 1500. Your body burns calories all day, even when you sleep. It takes a certain number just to maintain the body you currently have, and if you eat exactly that number you won’t gain or lose weight.2 -
FlyingMolly wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »If your calorie goal is 1500 and you burn 1500 then that's like eating 0 calories?
No; it’s like eating 1500. Your body burns calories all day, even when you sleep. It takes a certain number just to maintain the body you currently have, and if you eat exactly that number you won’t gain or lose weight.
Depends if we're talking about the calories burnt being alive or exercising to burn calories.2 -
Question(s):
If my daily calorie goal is say, 1500 calories/day
and
by the end of the day I burn 1500 calories/day
theoretically, will I be able to maintain my current weight?
Or,
If my daily calorie goal is say, 1500 calories/day
and
by the end of the day I burn 2250 calories/day
theoretically, will I be able to lose weight?
This is correct, assuming that your numbers are all correct and that you're counting calories burned doing everyday activities, keeping your body alive, etc. along with the calories burned with exercise. Sometimes people forget about the BMR and NEAT calories and mean just calories burned through exercise when they talk about calories burned.
As an example, my TDEE is around 2200 calories/day. The calorie calculators put it a little lower, but I've adjusted my numbers based on my experience after tracking so that I can see the real world numbers for myself. If I eat around 2200 calories per day my weight stays steady (keeping in mind that body weight fluctuates due to water retention all the time, but these are just noise we have to filter out). Eating around 1700 calories/day I lose five pounds a month almost like clockwork.1 -
Yes! The challenge is accurately calculating both the input and the output. Hence using a food scale is a key tool to maintaining/losing/gaining weight to calculate input. Calculating the output is an educated guess.1
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Thank you.0
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