How many calories should you burn to lose 1 or 2 pound a week?

[Anonymous]

Is 200 on treadmill and a workout video on YouTube okay?

[WitchKing]

In a week? Well, there are 3500 calories in a pound. so you take your average daily calorie intake (2100 for adults) and multiply thst by 7 to get 14700 calories. You have to burn about 14700 calories in a week to neutralize your calorie intake for the week. To lose a pound, add 3500 calories to 14700 and you get a total of 18200 calories a week. To put that per day, divide by 7 and you need to burn 2600 calories each day to lose a pound in 1 week. Its easier though if you make your calorie intake less, because then you dont have to burn off as many calories.

[BertMacklinFBI]

1 lbs of fat is equivalent to 3500 calories. if you want to lose 1 lbs a week you need to burn 3500 accumulated.

ignore the treadmills, just eat clean and do some intensity workouts mixed with cardio.

[openwide]

If you cut 250 calories from your input and you increase the output with 200 calories a day, then you are pretty close. You will end up with a deficit of 450 x 7 calories which is around 3150 calories / week.

I would try to do the treadmill daily and cut on some input in the evening.

by the way. how much time you need to burn 200 calories on treadmill, and how do you know is accurate?

Trying to lose more then 1 pound a week is unrealistic unless you have a big excess.

[Anonymous]

Not good at math. Have heard that first 5-10 lbs. lost is water weight.