Burning 500-600 calories everyday. Is it sufficient?

[Anonymous]

I gotta lose 16 kgs weight within a month. Is burning 500-600 calories per day, eating healthy and drinking 2 ltrs of water enough. Any other suggestion.

[broadsword]

Why have got to loose so much in such a short time. That's to much in this time period.
Your calorific in take should be 2500 a day. Stick to it remove all additional sugar. Increase fruit and veg. Cut out as much saturated fat as possible. Drink more water. Cut out anything made by someone else. Processed food an cans of drink.
You will loose 6Lbs the first week then 5 Lbs the following til you drop to 3 lbs it will stabilize there.
If you walk one extra kilometre a day this will ensure the weight loss.
If you don't achieve this then your cheating somewhere.
There is only one way to loose weight sorry but it's harsh and not many like hearing eat.
EAT LESS MOVE MORE.
Good luck

[ArtDent]

Sir, I am 6'2" and when I wanted to lose weight, I cut my intake down to 1500 cals. I don't know where you got the idea that she needs 2500 calories a day.

[broadsword]

@ArtDent the point being she's overweight and needs to reduce her weight. She's young and still growing and is a woman. Far more care and attention is required.
You are a 30 year old man who I suspect is in reasonable shape and understands diet.
She is actually advocating losing weight by exercise alone we have no idea of her intake.

Never the less your support and advice towards her was what she wanted not attempted ridicule of my opinion / advice.

[MaskedSanity]

I concur, 2500 is way over budget for a female.

That sounds like a good amount of food for a guy trying to gain muscle, who's doing vigorous exercise every day.

[broadsword]

@MaskedSanity yes 2500 is for a man but a woman should be 2200.
However if you are over badly over weight or obese then a massive reduction of food intake will put the body into starvation hibernation. To a young over weight woman my advice stands , purely trying to do it by burning an additional 500 - 600 calories a day will not work. Especially if your calories intake is closer 5000 a day.
Support her, don't point at me

[broadsword]

www.nhs.uk/.../1126.aspx
www.weightlossresources.co.uk/.../...ie_intake.htm
www.livestrong.com/.../
www.answers.com/.../How_many_calories_a_day_for_men_women_and_children
healthyeating.sfgate.com/...intake-women-5067.html

[ArtDent]

Her resting caloric needs are likely in the 1200 calorie range.

[ArtDent]

I would encourage anyone to sign up for myfitnesspal. com, it's free, it helps you calculate your caloric needs and if you track your intake and exercise daily, will help you stay in the maximum weight loss mode and warns you if you approach starvation mode.

It's a fantastic motivational tool.

[broadsword]

@ArtDent if that's your advice to her then iam truly horrified. She is a young woman still growing. you have no idea of her current intake. That's not sustainable or safe.

[ArtDent]

My advice to her is to utilize a tool which takes age, gender, activity level, height, weight and stated goals into account, allowing you to track both caloric intake (including a breakdown of fat, protein and carb percentages) as well as sodium and a whole host of other vitamins and minerals. All via scanning prepared products with your phone as well as manually entering homecooked meals and a user built database of many restaurant items. It also tracks exercise which informs her of adjustments needed to her baseline caloric needs.

You can be horrified all you want, you haven't a clue what you are talking about.

Time to put your listening ears on instead of reflexively thinking you know best.

[ArtDent]

In fact, it seems you really haven't read past the 'baseline around 1200 calorie' observation I made.

[ArtDent]

Furthermore, her age is listed as 18-24, so why are you presuming she's still growing?

[broadsword]

@ArtDent wow you are a very dangerous man I withdraw from this conversation and hope the young lady who posted the question doesn't feel her question is derailed.
Good luck young lady.

[Polocrew]

Just be consistent with it now cos it might get tiring or lower the intensity

[es20490446e]

As a professional trainer, and someone who is ripped, I can tell that's about how I workout everyday six days a week.

[ArtDent]

Try myfitnesspal. com

I used that site to lose 75lbs in 6 months.

[Nicolás25]

Its unhealthy