Question 1

How many calories should I burn a day?

Accepted Answer

The best way to figure out how many calories you should burn a day to achieve your weight goals is to use a calorie counter app. By cutting just 500 calories from your diet and increasing your daily level of physical activity, you can expect to lose 1 to 2 pounds a week.

Question 2

How much walking burns 700 calories?

Accepted Answer

If you want to try walking to burn these calories, you may need to walk for a very long time. According to Harvard Health Publishing, calories burned walking 1 hour at 4 miles per hour burns 378 kcal.

Therefore, a person who weighs 185 would need to walk at this pace for just under 2 hours to burn 700 kcal. Instead of choosing this option to burn 700 calories in an hour, opt for any of the above listed activities.

Running (at 6mph) or really fast rope jumping could also work. Hot yoga will make you sweat a ton during the session, but it doesn’t quite burn this much energy – a 1-hour class burns 330 to 600 kcal.

Question 3

Will I lose weight if I burn off everything I eat?

Accepted Answer

You don’t need to strive to burn off everything you’ve eaten. Your body still needs some energy to function, so over-exercising to burn off everything you’ve consumed or eating too little in the hopes that you’ll burn it off while working out is not a good idea.

Eating too little will leave you with too little energy so you can’t even function throughout the day, let alone exercise, and it can also trigger an eating disorder. The National Center for Eating Disorders warns that under-eating could lead to depression, mood swings, loss of sexual desire, problems with concentration, restlessness, cravings and obsessions over food and weight, and much more (9).

Over-exercising also has similar effects to undereating, but it comes with a higher risk of injury during workouts, loss of muscle mass, reduced performance, irritability, insomnia, hypertension, restlessness, heavy and sore muscles, and anxiety (8).

The most important thing to keep in mind is that weight loss occurs when you exercise and eat 500 to 1,000 calories less than your body needs. There’s no need to go above and beyond to try and force your body to lose weight as quickly as possible. This will only lead to more harm than good in the long term.

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