Calories you consume minus calories burned??

[jen36 1]

Do you take the total calories you have eaten for the day and then subtract how many calories you have burned exercising and that is how many calories you actually consumed or do you just go with what you have eaten?

[btrieger 21]

I'm willing to bet that EVERYBODY posting how many calories they consumed are all talking about what they ate.

If you calories consumed are bigger than burned, you are going to gain weight.

There are 3,500 calories in a pound.

So, if you eat 7,000 calories in a week and burn 14,000 calories that week. You should lose 2 pounds.

This is what is so great about the Bodybugg, it does the math for you.

[jen36 1]

So then this may be a very stupid question but just curious, say I should be eating 1100 calories a day but then I burn 300 a the gym, should I be replacing those 300 calories that I burned at the gym with more food?

[btrieger 21]

So then this may be a very stupid question but just curious, say I should be eating 1100 calories a day but then I burn 300 a the gym, should I be replacing those 300 calories that I burned at the gym with more food?

I am old school. There is no such thing as a stupid question.

No!

In order to lose weight, you must have a deficit. The deficit is the amount or calories that burned minus those you ate.

If you eat 1,100 calories a day and burn 300 at the gym and another 1,800 throughout the day; you have a deficit of 1,000 calories for that day.

The deficit is kind of like a savings account. Every time you cash in 3,500; you lose a pound.