100+ Pounds to Lose Group

Where Did the Weight Loss Come From?

posted by deb1207 on 1:13 pm

DIET & EXERCISE: We all know its a question of  Diet and Exercise.  I wanted to write about exercise though, as it does not always sink in in concrete "WEIGHT LOSS" terms.
 
Some think:  "yeah, yeah,  i know its good for me" . Others dont make the connection between exercise and weight loss. Some think, " its healthy but then I just get hungry and have to eat more."     


CONCRETE TERMS: HOW DOES EXERCISE AFFECT WEIGHT&n bsp;LOSS?    A while back I started doing data analyses of my own progress to see how this works.  If anyone cares to read, I am sharing the steps with you.The info I got was based on me honestly tracking everything i eat, and everything I do every single day.
 
1. First look at your TOTAL number of calories consumed for a given the time period. Then get the AVERAGE CALORIES EATEN PER DAY. So for example, lets say you ate 36000 calories over 20 days, the average daily calorie amount comes to 1800 eaten per day.        
 
2. Then look at your weight loss. Just as an example, say you lost 4 pounds in 20 days. You divide the number of pounds by # of days, to get your average DAILY pounds lost, and multiply by 7 to get your WEEKLY pounds lost.   So this would end up as .2 pounds DAILY or 1.4 pounds WEEKLY.        
 
3. Then look at your "calories burned" through exercise or activity. Lets call these Xcals (exercise calories) In my case, I burned 8209 XCals in 15 days. This is a Daily Average XCal burn of 547 (Daily Calories from Exercise or Activity) -   - DAILY EAT: During 15 days I ate a DAILY AVERAGE  of 915 calories. - DAILY BURN: During 15 days I burned a DAILY AVERAGE of 547 calories (from activity).        
 
4. During those 15 days, I LOST 4.1 pounds. Using a calculator, this AVERAGES 1.9133 pounds per week.  So here is our information: Now: we all know that to lose 1 pound means 3500 calories "off" (thru diet or exercise) per WEEK, or 500 calories PER  DAY "calorie deficit".   So we say to ourselves, "How many calories per day does 1.91 POUNDS equal?" To do this you multiply by 500.  
 
LOST DAILY (expressed as calories) = 955 calories LOST per day        
 
5. So lets look at the weight loss and say, "Where did this weight loss come from?"    
 
DAILY WEIGHT LOSS expressed as calories = 955. per day.      
 
DAILY EXERCISE BURN = 547      
 
HOW MUCH OF WEIGHT LOSS CAME FROM DIETING? Lets figure it out.    
 
Subtract the Daily Exercise Calories from the Daily Weight Loss Calories.    
 
Dieting Calories 955 - 547 = 408.    955 - Weight Loss Calories.   547 = Weight lost due to exercise.   408 = Weight Lost due to dieting.        
 
LETS LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGES: (divide 547/955, and then divide 408/955)      
 
WHERE DID THE WEIGHT LOSS COME FROM?    
 
57% came from EXERCISE  
 
43% came from DIETING (reducing calories)       
 
CONCLUSION: When I add up ALL my numbers, this indicates if over the 15 days it had been:      
 
NO DIET JUST EXERCISE: If I did not diet, ate 1870 and ONLY exercised: I would have lost  2.3 pounds in 15 days, NOT 4.1 pounds.    
 
NO EXERCISE JUST DIET: If I did not exercise but just dieted at 915 calories, I would have lost 1.7 pounds in 15 days, NOT 4.1 pounds.      
 
FINALLY: What I am exploring now is what will happen since I have added calories. I raised my calories to about 1200 so we will see. Thanks if you read this far!