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wingless

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Just wanted a little advice, ive got alot of weight to lose and am going to be working out as well as dieting. If i want my calorie intake at the 1500 range do i need to eat 1500 + and any additional working out i do in that day. By the end of today i will have burned off about 1300 calories just through taking walks so do i need to eat more than 1500 calories to avoid to big a calorie defecit?

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How do you track your calories from walking? 1300 calories burned from walking sounds like a rather large number.
 
nope, walked at 3pmh for 80 mins earlier and 66 mins just now burning off just under 1300 calories, my burn rates high due to my weight (345lbs)
 
When I was around 350, 60 minutes of walking at 5 mph got me to about 150 calories off. So I am not sure where you got your numbers from to be honest. To get to 1300 calories burned through paced walking, you'd have to walk for about 5 hours straight.

In any case, at 345 lbs, you're wayyy under what you should be eating. 1500 calories aren't enough for you.
 
both the cardio trainer app and my fitness pal have been giving me the same figures, i know 1500 wont be enough if im doing any exercise hence my wanting to know what i should increase it by, i dont want to up my calorie intake by the same amount of calories i burn off as that will just negate the walking
 
wingless said:
both the cardio trainer app and my fitness pal have been giving me the same figures, i know 1500 wont be enough if im doing any exercise hence my wanting to know what i should increase it by, i dont want to up my calorie intake by the same amount of calories i burn off as that will just negate the walking
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Ok wingless, your body burns calories on it's own just to keep you alive. The estimated calculations come from BMR or RMR calculators. For example: Susie burns 1800 calories a day from moving around, the energy it takes to digest food, just to keep her organs functioning, etc. If she eats 1700 calories a day, that's a deficit of 100 per day. Susie will lose weight. If she adds exercise into the equation well that will just make the deficit even bigger (she works out for 30min and burned 200 calories) at 300 calorie burned that day.
Get an estimate of how many calories your body burns on it's own each day by using a RMR or BMR calculator. Then adjust your eating habits accordingly. You MUST give your body what it needs to run properly.
 
I'd eat in the 2500 calorie range, then see how fast you lose in the first two weeks. If it's slow, cut down calories a little. If it's fast, maybe you can up calories. (Although I admit I've never actually upped calories because I wasn't losing weight slow enough, lol)
 
well i was planning to do 1500 to 2000 and see how i feel, if im feeling week or hungry i was planning to up it, what i want to know is if i burn an additional x ammount of calories through exercise then how many extra should i eat :)
 
I'd say don't add more than half of what your burn is. Especially if you're going by estimates and not a HR monitor or BodyBugg or something for calories burned. Plus you want to maximize. Personally I don't add more calories for cardio at all, but you're eating very low cal already!
 
wingless said:
nope, walked at 3pmh for 80 mins earlier and 66 mins just now burning off just under 1300 calories, my burn rates high due to my weight (345lbs)
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A 1300 calorie workout is savage. 2 hrs of gentle walking isn't anything like 1300 cals. Any calculator that gives a crazy high number is not to be trusted. Same goes for gym machines.

Since you weigh 345 lbs I think you can aim for up to 3000 calories and lose weight. Don't worry about adding on days you workout.

As a rule of thumb, your weight x 12 will allow you to lose weight, weight x 14 is about maintenance. So 4140 calories would still allow you to drop some weight. 4800 would be maintenance.
 
it could just be that the programs that give me those results arnt designed to work out calories burned for someone of my weight. can anyone advise a good calorie calculator?

thanks
 
If you track your heart rate, then I think I'd use a calculator like this one -

Enter your heart rate - but remember this probably includes your BMR rather than be 100% 'extra' calories burned.

I suspect that may be part of why the estimation is so high. The heavier you are, the higher your BMR and many exercise machines just tack your BMR onto the exertion. Which is not as helpful as they seem to think :/
 
Jeanette401 said:
If you track your heart rate, then I think I'd use a calculator like this one -
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+1 on tracking your heart rate. I only got a monitor a few weeks ago and really appreciate using it.

You're quite right that your size means you'll be buring a lot of calories, I wouldn't like to say how many.
 
might look into a heart rate monitor then, and see if i can find a calculator with my bmr not included, thanks :)
 
What I usually do with that (when I use it) is figure out my standard resting heart rate when I'm doing nothing and calculate that, then subtract it away from the active heart rate. Not sure that's 100% accurate, but if you're just looking for ball park figures then it probably works :)
 
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