How many miles do you have to run to lose 1 pound if you are 200 pounds and 5 feet 10 inches tall?

Answer 1

A pound of fat is equivalent 3000 calories, so in order to lose one you have to expend 3000 calories worth of your body - that's energy that will come from stored fat, food you're metabolizing, and muscle tissue being cannibalized as a metabolic process. I bet you could probably run a little less than a mile per 100 calories, depending on how efficient your running technique is (stride, etc.) and how well toned you are.

You can lose 'weight' in other ways, of course. When you exercise for prolonged periods, your body sheds water, which, on the scale, may deceive you into thinking that you've lost more weight than you have - of course, as you eat or drink later, your body will retain more water from what you intake to hydrate and help you recover. So really, water weight doesn't count.

Answer 2

To lose a single pound, you need to burn an extra 3,500 calories. The generally-accepted formula for total calories burned per mile of running is .75 your weight in pounds. Therefore, a 126 pound person can expect to burn approximately 96 calories?æper mile, and would need to run almost 36.5 miles to lose one pound.

Answer 3

Sorry. I don't know. I only redid this answer because of the rude comment that was previously here.