Sunday, November 13, 2011
Calories consumed/calories burned?
I absolutely love eating and i absolutely love exercising, two awesome things! But I was checking out information from a daily calorie needs calculator from a couple of websites and it said that given the amount of exercise i do each week (1 hour of cardio per day, burning around 800 calories at a time, usually 6 to 7 days a week) in conjunction with my gender, age, height, and weight (male) that i should be consuming around 3,450 calories to maintain my weight, and around 2,950 calories to lose about one pound per week. Given that i would love to lose a little bit of weight, just like the next person out there, i have continued to do my daily exercise just as i have been doing, but decrease my calories to a daily intake of 2,300 calories (from food). This means that i am taking in roughly 1,500 to 1,600 calories a day once the calories burned from exercise has been deducted from the total calorie intake from eating. Is this a healthy amount of calories to eat each day, given my daily activity ? Because for me, a pretty normal eater, eating 2,300 calories is A LOT of food to eat in general! Thanks so much :)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment