How many steps does a person have to walk to burn a pound?

Answer 1

The average walking pace burns approximately 100 calories per mile for a person who weighs 175 pounds. The average person takes 2,200 steps per mile. To burn one calorie requires a deficit of 3,500 calories. it would take 35 miles or 77,000 steps to lose a pound.

Answer 2

Walking is about 300 cals/hour, and the general guideline is that 3500 calories burned equals one pound. So in theory, about 12 hours of walking would lose you one pound.

But in reality, it's not as simple as that.

The math above will only work if your eating is pretty much spot on to start with.

Let's say you're overeating with 1000 cals/day.

That's easy enough, it's only about two cupcake's worth of calories.

Now you'd need about 3 hours of walking just to get back to square one for that

day. To create any weight loss, you'd have to keep walking.

So, assuming you manage to get your eating(your calorie allowance) right to start with, walking one hour daily would give you a good chance of losing one pound in 12 days.

Answer 3

It depends on how much work you put into it. Here's a great chart that tells you how many calories are burned during which exercise, depending on how much you weigh. You need to burn 3,500 calories to lose 1 pound of fat.

Answer 4

Put it this way - you would have to walk (2 mph) for 18 hours.

Other information:

Doctors and dieticians recommend losing weight gradually, allowing a whole month for every 4 to 8 pounds you want to lose. Do not starve yourself, or skip meals, or try throwing up. A cycle of diminished physical fitness will happen if you diet too quickly (too drastically). As soon as you ease up on a drastic diet, your weight will balloon up once again.
Here's a program for the period in which you want to lose weight:
Try to get plenty of moderate aerobic exercise (intense exercise may damage your joints). It isn't essential to join a gym; you can do sit-ups, pushups, dumbbell-lifting, jumping-jacks, and many other basic exercises at home. Walk as much as possible. Bicycling and swimming are good too. Even for people who are not trying to lose weight, being active helps your digestion, your circulation, and other body processes, and will help improve your mood.

Even more important than exercise, is avoiding junk foods and sweetened drinks such as soda. Try to avoid refined flour and pasta, processed foods, fried foods, and fatty cuts of meat. Cut down on added sugar and added salt. Even for people who are not trying to lose weight, it is recommended to have no more than about 6 teaspoons of sugar per day (and many processed foods contain sugar, corn syrup or the like).

Our great-grandparents didn't have the epidemic of obesity we see today, because they had a less-sedentary lifestyle, a much more natural diet, and they ate reasonably-sized portions.

Eat 3 not-large-portioned meals per day; do not skip breakfast; and avoid sugary snacks. If you want a snack, try (for example) an apple or a handful of unsalted nuts.

Limit your calories (best to consult a doctor or nutritionist concerning the amount), and weigh yourself at the same time each day, 2-3 times per week. If you see your weight diminishing at a safe, reasonable rate (1-2 pounds/week), keep it up.

Once you've reached your goal, increase your calorie intake somewhat, so that you can maintain your present weight. And you can then have small amounts of sweetened foods or junk food on occasion (if at all), along with your regular healthy foods. But keep checking your weight 2-3 times/week.

Avoid crash-diets, fad diets, diet pills, etc. These may be harmful, and need not be considered by people who have adopted an otherwise healthy diet.

More guidelines:
Don't concentrate on specific foods so much as on a balanced, healthy diet plus exercise.

Healthy nutrition means eating what your body needs, while ingesting as few harmful things as possible. It has also been described as getting enough of each of the major food categories, in healthy forms (grains, fruits, vegetables, protein, dairy, etc.; plus plenty of water).

In general, an example of a healthy starting point could be a menu of whole-grain foods and bread, a good amount of vegetables, legumes, some fruits and nuts, fish, lean meats in not-large amounts, and some dairy. However, this may need adjusting according to one's lifestyle, age, health, weight and other factors at the outset; and also later, as one sees what works for him/her in particular.

Also...whenever you feel queasy, nauseous, constipated or otherwise not completely well, try to remember what you've eaten over the last several hours or the last day. This is one factor in adjusting one's food habits.

See also:

Could you describe a balanced diet?

What features would a good weight-loss program have?

Different types of fat - which are healthy?

Some healthy snacks

Is it possible to slim down in just one area of the body?

Disclaimer: Sensible diet plans such as the one above may be good for most people, but there are exceptions. Some people with complications such as glandular or other disorders, may find the above plan to be insufficient. If one keeps gaining weight despite eating healthily, professional advice may be needed.

Answer 5

70,000 steps equals 3500 calories which equals 1 lb of fat

Answer 6

It takes an approximately 3,500 calorie deficit to lose one pound, which averages 77,000 steps. This means it would take 154,000 steps to lose 2 pounds.

Answer 7

It takes approximately 77,000 steps to lose one pound. This means it would take 231,000 steps to lose 3 pounds. This is approximately 105 miles at 2,200 steps per mile.

Answer 8

1000-3000 steps