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How many calories would one have to burn before losing one pound?
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If there are 3500 calories in a pound of fat how long would it take a person to gain a pound of fat who burns 500 less calories than they consume per week?
It would take 7 weeks. Though when trying to gain weight the same principles tend to apply as losing it. I.E. Try to gain about a pound a week.
If a person consumes an extra 500 calories per day how long would it take before he or she gained one pound of fat?
500 extra calories would be an extra pound of weight every 7 days (3,500 calories is equal to one solid pound of weight). That is about 4 to 4.5 pounds every month.
How many calories pounds?
I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but if you are asking how many calories are in a pound, then the answer is 3,500 calories make one pound.
What has more calories one pound of lean meat or one pound of butter?
You would think that if you eat one pound you would gain one pound....but that's not true...it depends on the calories. Butter has more calories
What does 1000 calories weigh?
3,500 calories is a pound so 1,000 would be less than half of a pound.
Which would produce more calories-a pound of lean meat or a pound of butter why?
A pound of butter has more calories than a pound of meat. This is because for every gram of fat, there are 9 calories. For meat, every gram of protein has 4 calories.
How many calories should you cut a week to lose a pound?
There are 3500 calories in one pound. Cutting 500 calories a day would make you lose one pound each week.
How much weight can you lose if ate only 97 calories for 1month?
You would get very sick. A pound of fat is 3500 calories. If you only eat 97 calories (assuming a day) then that means (assuming a 2000 calorie diet) you are losing 1907 calories a day or 13321 calories a week. This is 3.8 pounds lost a week. Everything I've read says healthy weigh tloss is only at maximum 1 pound a week.
How many calories does the normal person have to burn in exercise to lose on pound of fat?
It take about 3500 calories to burn 1 pound of fat. So that would mean that if you lower you caloric intake by 500 calories in a week you would lose about 1 pound.
How many calories to lose 5 pounds?
A little tricky but assuming you are talking losing fats the general idea is 3500 calories per pound. That would be 17,500 calories total. That would mean that you have to burn 17,500 calories more than you took in over a period of time. Ideally that should be over at least a week or 2 to stay healthy
How many lunges do you have to do to lose one pound?
1 pound equals 3,500 calories. You can burn around 0.1 calories per jump. 3,500 calories divided by 0.1 calories per jump is 35,000 jumps in 1 pound. That would take almost 3 hours to burn off (at 200 jumps per minute)
How many calories less a day do you need to consume to lose one pound in a week?
A pound of fat is generally around 3500 calories, so to lose a pound of fat a week you would need to lose 500 calories a day
