1000 calories....

Hey All

I'm just curious, I'm about 200lbs and 5'8 and I'm trying to eat between 1500-1800 calories a day. My calorie should be 2100 if I am not mistaken. I have read if you decrease your calorie intake buy 500 a day---->500 x 7 days=3500 you could loose about 1lb a week . 

I have been using my air climber everyday for an 1hour, I burn about 1000 cal. I am wondering if I do this everyday which is about 7000 cal burn in a week and eat normal maybe exceeding my 1800 cal intake, am i benefiting from the work out? WILL I loose weight?

Thanks!

If you ate 1800 calories a day you would still have a deficit because that is likely your sedentary burn rate or a teensy bit higher.

So with exercise you would be burning off 7000 calories a week, which would still yield a 2 pound loss if your maintenance intake is 1800.

It doesn't matter how you create the deficit as long as your calories burned is greater than the calories consumed you'll lose weight. If I decided that I was going to workout and burn 3000 calories a day I could eat 2500 calories and still lose weight even though my sedentary burn is significantly less than that. Does that make sense?

So exercise. More and you can eat more and get the same results. Having greater than a 1000 calorie deficit with exercise and intake combined is not recommended though. I hope this helps!

Thanks for taking time out to reply Chrissy!

Yea I think I got it, a little confused with excersing and burning 3000 and consuming 2500 cal part :(   And what excactly is a deficit?

 

the deficit is the difference between what you take in (calories ingested), and what you burn off (exercise, breathing, sleeping, living, etc.)

You should try not to exceed a 1,000 calorie deficit (750 is usually sufficient for a decent rate of weight loss).  But at the same time, you should NOT go below 1200 (and at 5'8", you really shouldn't go below 1400) -- so, if you exercise a lot, you may need to eat some more to make up for the difference.

 

i simply gave the 3000 burned, 2500 eaten to illustrate the point that absolute amounts don't matter...it's the relationships between the in and out. i'd get the same results if i ate 4000 calories and burned 4500 as if i ate 1500 and burned 2000.

well, in theory that is. if you were burning 4000 calories then you're likely toning your body and boosting your fitness in addition to losing weight. if you just cut calories to lose weight you're not necessarily improving your fitness.