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[quote=Anonymous]Walking 10,000 steps in a day likely burns about 300 net additional calories (i.e. 300 more calories than you would burn laying on the couch all day).

PP is way, way over estimating calorie burn from walking.  I average about 15,000 steps per day.  I also play about 3 hours of pretty intense basketball per week and lift heavy 3 times a week.  As a 6'3" 200 LB man, I can get away with eating about 3000 calories per day total.  If I laid on the couch all day, I could eat about 2200.

It is really, really easy to out-eat exercise.  I once read that Paula Radcliff (a professional marathoner) could eat back all of the calories from her 120 miles per week of running (at a sub 6:00 per mile pace) by adding one large chocolate chip muffin and a big bagel with cream cheese to the daily diet of a sedentary person.  That may be an exaggeration, but (according to the calorie burn estimate from my garmin) I did once eat back all of the calories that I burned in a marathon during the ride back to my hotel from the race.[/quote]

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