How much weight can you lose in 2 weeks by eating 1200 calorie diet plus running 2-4miles a day?

Answer 1

The speed with which you walk changes the amount of calories burned. A 165 pound person walking 5 miles at a 30 per mile pace or faster will burn 470 calories. On a 1600 calorie diet, you should lose approximately 6 pounds per week on that schedule.

Answer 2

1000 calories a day is probably not enough to function, especially with the added exercise of 3 miles walking a day. An average 5'5 140 lb. woman needs at least 1200 calories a day just to keep her heart pumping and brain thinking. Eating less than that and your body will go into starvation / survival mode and you will find it very difficult to perform any daily activities, especially walking 3 miles.

My advice would be to get a body composition analysis from a professional (most universities have this service available in their health science departments for a small fee). They will be able to tell you what your Resting Metabolic Rate is (the amount of calories to keep your nervous system functioning). It will also give you the number of calories you need to eat to maintain your current weight based on your daily activity level, and they can give you advice on how many calories to eat per day per your activity level in order to lose weight.

Answer 3

It depends on your body, everyone is different.

It also depends on how much and what you're eating. Food is energy.....If you take in more energy than you spend you'll gain weight. If you spend more energy than you take in you'll lose weight.

Answer 4

It depends upon your weight, your age, your degree of cardiovascular fitness, your body composition, and where you are walking (flat ground or incline) as well as how far you are walking and how fast you are walking. For more information about how to do walking to lose weight correctly, see the page link, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.

Answer 5

First of all, a 400 calorie diet is not healthy. If you don't have enough calories the burn in a day, you will weaken and it will become tougher to work out, and then you will gradually dip deeper into the food basket and then you will be in big trouble. It is better the consult a physician and make a personal diet plan, fitted to you. As with the excersizing, it is good as long as it isn't too much. Burning too many calories and not leaving enough for daily activities will, as stated before, start you on your way to deeper waters.

Answer 6

There's no single answer to that.

Let's say your basic need is 2000 calories, and you eat 1600 cals. That means you're 2000-1600 = 400 cal short on eating.

Then you exercise for 800 cals. That puts you at 400 + 800 = 1200 calories used up for that day.

Rule of thumb says that when you're 3500 calories short, you've lost a pound of fat.

So in this example you'll lose one pound for each three days you keep it up - assuming your need is 2000, and that your numbers for your food and exercise are correct.

But maybe your need is 1600, then you're only losing 800/day. It'll be four days to a pound.

Answer 7

The amount of weight you will lose depends on what exactly you eat to get a thousand calories and how your body responds to changes in diet and exercise.

Answer 8

Maybe one pound, depending on how fast you run.