Calories Burned Vs Calories Eaten

This is about how many calories are burned doing various activities vs the calories we take in from the various foods we might eat.

The calories burned are often a big mystery in most people's minds. We all have our general ideas that the calories burned are greater as we exert ourselves more. First, exactly what are the amount of calories burned for the various activities and exercises? Second, let's compare the calories in the various foods we eat to find out how we end up at the end of a typical day.

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We can start with sleeping. We burn about eleven calories every ten minutes, so the amount would be about 528 calories in eight hours.

The calories just being awake and generally doing nothing is about 12-15 calories per 10 minutes.

Calories consumed every 10 minutes

11 Resting
30 House Cleaning
36 Vacuuming
37 Moderate Weight Lifting
50 Gardening
56 Rebounding
75 Brisk Walking
75 Downhill Skiing Moderate
75 Vigorous Weight Lifting
75 Bicycling 10 mph
75 Walking uphill 3.5 mph
88 Vigorous Aerobics
95 Running 12 minute mile
106 Step Aerobics 6-8 inches high
125 Step Aerobics 10-12 inches high
125 Moderate Jump Rope

When you combine this with the amount of calories burned from the food you eat, you have an idea what it takes to maintain, reduce or increase your existing weight. It also gives you an idea of what it takes to lose one pound of fat or gain one pound of muscle.

The amount of calories during a lazy day of sleeping 8 hours and just doing almost nothing the rest of the day looks like this: 528 calories burned while sleeping 8 hours plus 1440 calories doing nothing for 16 hours (15 calories every 10 minutes x 6 x 16) equals 1968 calories that day.

This is a hypothetical example, since each person will likely burn more or less calories depending entirely on their level of activities, emotion stresses, frequency of eating which influences the rate of metabolism (amount of calories your body tends to burn at a time), your proportion of fat to muscle and your nutrition.

This example is just to demonstrate the relationship between activities and calories eaten and calories burned.

The calories burned to lose one pound of fat is 3500 calories. This is 175 calories each day for 20 days in a row. If you are eating about 2000 calories a day, 175 calories represents about 8.7% of your calories for the day or eaten for the day.

It is very difficult to monitor your calories eaten and your calories burned with sufficient accuracy to control this within 8.7% above or below your 2000 calories. To be 8.7% above to gain weight or below to lose weight is just not practical.

The value of knowing the amount of calories burned from various activities and from various foods is to be pointed in the right direction when striving toward achieving your health goals.

For example, the amount of calories for a few assorted foods is:

140 Regular 1 oz chocolate chip cookie
130 4 oz broiled white fish - Halibut, Sole
55 4 oz apple
110 1 ½ oz slice of 12-grain bread
105 1 oz instant dry regular oatmeal
200 1 slice medium (12 inch) pizza 1/8 of the pizza
380 4 oz lean raw ground beef - nothing to improve the taste or cook in
140 1.6 oz hot dog without the bun or extras
120 4 oz turkey breast
140 2 tablespoons of Ranch dressing
115 4 oz low fat fruit flavored yogurt
140 4 oz vanilla ice cream
25 5 oz tomato
15 3 oz zucchini
4 1 clove of garlic
90 4 oz peeled potato
15 2 ½ oz sauerkraut
80 2 ½ oz cooked yams
7 2 oz lettuce
20 2 ½ cooked mushrooms
540 Fast food hamburger
380 4.1 oz medium french fries
560 16 oz milk shake
210 21 fluid ounce medium soft drink

From the above examples it quickly becomes apparent it is all too easy to exceed your calories from your activities unless you eat mostly lots of fruits, vegetables, lean meats, a few nuts and drink lots of pure water, tea and a few selected other drinks, like hemp milk, etc. You can make those vegetables loaded with nutrition and few calories taste fantastic by simply adding a lot of herbs and spices.

A tremendous additional advantage is you will be much more likely to receive the nutrients your body craves because all your calories will then be nutrient rich. There is no other way to promote keeping your energy high and your health on the right track.

Dave Mallegg

Calories Burned Vs Calories Eaten

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