How many calories are burned doing nothing?

Answer 1

The number of calories that are burned doing nothing, also known as one's "metabolism", differs for each person but an average adult burns 2000 calories a day. You can increase your metabolism by doing endurance exercises such as swimming, running, or biking.

Answer 2

Yes, because you are not really doing nothing, you're living. Your heart beating and pumping blood, your lungs taking in air, your digestive system working, this is all burning calories. I don't think healthy people can burn less then 1,000 calories in 24 hours, just by being alive. Even if you were to lay in bed all day, you need calories to be alive. Otherwise, how could a human starve to death? If we didn't use calories just breathing and so on, we could go into a hibernation mode instead of starving to death.

Even when we sleep, we burn between 28 and 59 calories per hour. Also think about how animal hibernate. They consume plenty of calories though out the summer and fall, storing them up. Then they sleep for three months. While they are sleeping, they are living off those stored calories. That's why when they wake up, they are thinner.

Answer 3

On average you burn 10 calories per pound that you weigh per day.

Example: A person that weighs 130 pounds burn 1300 calories per day just existing.

If you are looking to lose weight 3500 calories = 1 pound of fat.

So take you weight multiply it by 10 and subtract that number from 3500 and you get how many calories you have to burn per day to lose 1 pound per day.

Example: A per that weighs 130 pounds burns 1300 calories per day, subtract that from 3500 so he/she has to burn 2200 calories per day to lose 1 pound of weight per day.

Answer 4

You burn about 100 calories an hour, that's how much your body needs to just function, so about 2400 calories a day.

Answer 5

Roughly 50 calories per hour. This varies from person to person.

Answer 6

The average person's body burns about 1,000 calories a day just to live and survuve naturally.

Answer 7

work out your your basic metabollic rate and mulltiply by 1.2.

Answer 8

It varies per person. But the average human body requires about 800 to 1,000 calories a day just to function and to perform basic movements and functions.