1 pound = 3500 calories

[Anonymous]

When I learned that 1 pound = 3500 calories, I cracked the code to healthier eating and weight loss. It wasn't that difficult to cut 3500 calories from my diet each week, losing 1 pound a week. For me, it was cutting out one restaurant meal a week.

[Anonymous]

Funny.

I figured that out when I was 16 and lost a ton of weight. I then spent the rest of my life—20 years now!—trying to make calorie reduction sustainable.

It’s so simple and yet so complicated.

[Anonymous]

Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

That will trigger more hunger so probably will not result in weight loss.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I meant a 500 cal a day.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

divide by 7 you mean

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

Maybe new moms are snacking while they prepare their children's lunches, not necessarily on unhealthy foods. The extra 500 calories a day has to come from some caloric intake (food) or a caloric reduction (exercise). It's just not that easy to exercise off 500 calories a day through exercise.

And you would be surprised how many people are actually eating a Snickers candy bar stashed in the freezer. Or they're eating a bag of potato chips they pick up at CVS. You're just not seeing them eating. They'll eat the entire box of Girl Scout cookies. Can't eat just one potato chip or one Girl Scout cookie.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

Maybe new moms are snacking while they prepare their children's lunches, not necessarily on unhealthy foods. The extra 500 calories a day has to come from some caloric intake (food) or a caloric reduction (exercise). It's just not that easy to exercise off 500 calories a day through exercise.

And you would be surprised how many people are actually eating a Snickers candy bar stashed in the freezer. Or they're eating a bag of potato chips they pick up at CVS. You're just not seeing them eating. They'll eat the entire box of Girl Scout cookies. Can't eat just one potato chip or one Girl Scout cookie.

I have an obese BMI and I promise I would never eat any of that. Ever.

Obviously I eat more than I need to eat to maintain a healthy weight. But my God, no, it’s not Coke, Snickers, potato chips. It’s too much of the healthy made-from-scratch food I serve to my family because I’m hungry for it. Because my hormones are triggering calorie compensation.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

anything that counts calories burned through exercise is highly inaccurate.

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For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

Did you know there’s debate of how well the human body can even metabolize alcohol calories? Safe to say cutting wine won’t yield as much benefit as you think and certainly not 1:1 with food calories.