Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At my age and weight a 4 to 5 mile walk will burn 400 to 500 calories. I just returned from a 50 minute moderate bike ride, just riding into town for a couple errands, and burned 450 calories; thanks to the hills and wind. That means I could have a good sized piece of cheesecake (also 4-500 calories) and maintain my current weight; or not - and continue on my slow weight loss goals. In simple terms if I want to lose a pound or two per week I have to keep my calorie intake under 1300 and burn between 400 and 600 calories per day - walking, biking or at the gym. If I'm sitting in a chair and or a car all day - 1250 calories will maintain my weight. Eating any more will slowly or quickly pack it on. I've tested these realities extensively over the past year and a half. They hold quite true for me. In my twenties 6' 4" the calorie intake was a minimum of 3500 - 185 lbs. In my thirties - 2700 - 3000 - 195 lbs Forties - 2500 - 3000 and I was building a house while maintaining a design firm with three employees - 200 - 210 lbs Fifties 2000 - 2700 and beginning to gain unhealthy weight - 220 lbs 2012 - Sixty six - 240 lbs - heart attack 2013 - sixty seven - 218 and hoping to revisit 185 lbs in the next couple years. a note off the iPad, George On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:10 PM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Yes, quite, but burning off 500 calories takes a fair bit of excercise, a > 4 to 5 mile run depending on your weight, whilst it is only a small amount > of (junk) food. > > If you have done the calculations you will have seen the facts. That is > not to discount the fact that being fit is a very good thing but the best > excercise to avoid getting fat is to push back from the table ;-)