Hi racer,
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Something that boggles my mind as well is do i have to burn more calories than i consume? I mean i read this sometimes all over the internet and think to myself than if you must burn more than you consume, thats like telling somebody you can only eat about 500 calories a day than burn more than 500 by cardio and weight training.
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You’re right that to lose weight you need to eat less than burn, but it doesn’t quite work the way you’ve described.
For example, a person such as yourself, weight 240 pounds, would need to eat about 2400-2800 calories a day to maintain that 240. To lose one pound, you need to lose 3500 calories. This can be done 2 ways, either burning the calories by exercise or by eating fewer calories. Both of those activities result in losing weight.
In your case, to lose a pound a week, you’d need to get rid of 500 calories a day from the 2800 calories a day you’re already eating. (500 calories x 7 days is 3500 calories or 1 pound). You can get rid of those 500 daily calories by either exercising or eating less or a combination of both.
Since you’re looking to lose about 25 pounds in 2 months, you have to get rid of 87,500 calories in those 2 months (3500 calories x 25 pounds). That would be about 1500 calories a day you either have to burn or not eat (87,500 calories divided by 60 days).
The 1200 calories that you’re eating now would likely result in the loss you’re looking for as you’d be getting rid of that extra 1500 calories. The only problem I can see is that you’re going to be starving. For a man, 1200 calories a day is very little. If you exercise on top of this it is really too few calories. I’d suggest you eat about 1800 calories and exercise the other 500 off. That way you wont be starving yourself.
Good luck to you, race. Hope I didn’t confuse you more with all my figuring.
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