Mr_Knight Member

We've known it's nonsense for a long time. Doesn't stop people from believing it.

680 is about the right burn for a 225-pounder. Scale accordingly (if necessary).

8/17: rest day 8/18 : 22km bike Totals Bike: 239km/300km Run: 55km/88km Swim: 0/6400m

MFP is a lot closer. Still too high - but closer.

body weight in pounds * miles run (not walked - run) * .6 If you're 150, your 9 minutes burned about 70 calories. Scale for your own actual weight.

No, it's not. There are physiological changes that come with exercise that make it easier to fuel the body while eating less.

Nothing particularly wrong with it, some things about it pretty good, but most people will have a difficult time adhering to it. If you want to try, go for it! :drinker:

OMG, no, unless you're literally climbing Ventoux that calculator is more than doubling the actual burn.

You are still missing the point. This has nothing to do with TEF.

And there we go...misleading and frankly anti-science soundbite advice. Choice of calories affects CO, for the same level of CI. That means choice of calories affects the deficit, for any given CI. That means choice of calories matters for weight loss, for any given CI. I have no idea why so many here feel compelled to…

8/16: 12km running Halfway mark! Totals Bike: 217km/300km Run: 55km/88km Swim: 0/6400m

You don't know the OP's context. That might be true for you, but it's not true universally.

Broken. Try this.... cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(15)00392-7

If you eat at your BMR, you are guaranteed to lose weight, unless you're in a coma. That's the connection.

I thought you were the Queen of NoCardia...? It's a great goal - have fun! :drinker:

The "CICO Cult" is just as bad in its own way. The "all calories are equal" and "exercise doesn't matter for weight loss" mantras are just as wrong as claiming low carb is the One True Path - but we hear them anyway, over and over again. Every approach is susceptible to being reduced to a meaningless soundbite. And this…

The difference won't be meaningful. Distance and weight cover almost all of it. Especially averaging 3.5 mph.

If you can afford half-pound burgers, you can afford a kitchen scale.

You may be eating less than you ever have. But you're definitely not eating at a deficit. Bye! :drinker:

walking calories -> weight in pounds * miles walked * 0.3 running calories -> weight in pounds * miles run * 0.6 If you're mix and matching, don't average the two, calculate the two parts separately and add them together.

7 mile walk at 250 pounds is ~500 calories. Scale for your actual weight.

Sorry about that - should be good now.

The Zone Diet is typically classified as low-carb.

Based on current basic army fitness standards, you'd need to be under 24 minutes to be "acceptably" fit. At the other end, under 19 minutes would put you at "superb" fitness.

No, that's completely wrong. The human body evolved specifically to run well in fasted conditions. A 24 hour fast is nothing - you need to go past 72 hours for the first hints of Bad Things.

I'm in triathlon training while In a deficit. Best advice I can offer is to keep the deficit reasonable, and push towards the upper end of protein requirements. The harder you're pushing, the more important it is to keep the deficit from being too large. Ratio of fats/carbs is something your body will dictate - just make…

For a typical, lightly-active person, physiological changes (which may or may not be medically appropriate long term) start when carb intake is dropped to the 100-150g area, depending on size/genetics/etc. My definition of low carb is any level flirting with that threshold, once activity burns are accounted for.

8/14: 5.5km running 8/15: 35km riding Totals Bike: 217km/300km Run: 43km/88km Swim: 0/6400m

It depends on what you're trying to achieve. Going for ketosis is a lot different than "minimal intake without physiological maladaptions". And it depends on context, especially activity level/type.

What Mr Knight claimed was that under 200g/day was low carb for any active, non-short male. And I'm not alone in that claim - when dieticians/"journalists" claim the Lakers basketball team has gone "low carb", they're talking about 200-300g of carbs per day. My average exercise burn is ~700 cal/day, in 60 minutes. And…