Eveything Calories
Learn how to count calories.. Weight Loss tips & guides

In one pound of body fat, there are 3500 calories (3500 calories per pound of fat). This means, if you want to lose one pound of stored fat, you will have to burn 3500 extra calories. It may sound straightforward, but actually it is not. Many dieters say that they cut enough calories per pound per week, but hardly lose any fat.

As has been estimated by experts, 3500 is the calorie count for a full 2 day food intake. Now to cut down calories equivalent to that is tough, right? Luckily, you do not have to do it every day. You can do it in smaller portions. So to say, if you cut 500 calories daily, you will achieve the 3500 target in a week’s time. Now that’s more manageable.

Be warned, calories per pound will never add up when losing weight. If you take 500 less calories than the body requires, on a daily basis, it would apparently be expected that fat stores will supply the additional energy requirements. However, energy metabolism is not as straightforward and varies between individuals. The fuel that the body utilizes will depend on many factors: fitness levels, present energy stores, motivation levels, type of exercise chosen, genetic predisposition and nutritional state are a few factors to mention.

Lets take an overview, of how different activities, can help burn different number of calories per pound of fat.

- Taking rest or sleeping alone burns up to 50 calories.

- Gardening can burn between 350-500 calories in an hour.

- Skipping rope can take calorie burn count up to a 700 in an hour.

- Jogging, at a speed of 5 miles an hour, can burn up to 500 calories in an hour.

- Walking for an hour burns between 250-280 calories, and brisk walking, can burn 600 of them in an hour’s time.

- Household work, depending upon the energy expended, can offer you a calorie cut of 100-200 in an hour.

Needless to mention, along with using one or more of the above methods, you should also consider diet control and prevent calories which are beyond your bodily need. Also, please do not be carried away by the fallacy that you have to eat much less to cut down calories. No way. That is simply not the case. The fact is, you have to eat much DIFFERENTLY than what you eat normally. You have to be conscious about the KIND of food intake, rather than the AMOUNT of food intake.

So, plan your diet well, engage in some sort of physical activity and be consistent and positive. If you do so, you will notice positive changes soon.

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