Calories Burned vs Calories Eaten

Calories Burned vs Calories Eaten

Sleeping

The amount of calories burned 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 burned doing nothing for 16 hours (15 calories burned every 10 minutes x 6 x 16) equals 1968 calories burned 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 of calories burned 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 burned 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 burned. To be 8.7% above to gain or below to lose weight is just not practical.

Nutrition

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 burned 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

Fruit and Vegetables

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

Eating Healthy Food

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 burned 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

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