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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / July 2004Calories per pound fat?
Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? Thanks!  SignatureHopeful (282,279,145) highest...294 One dark day on Usenet, "Rainbow-Seeker" <nospam@nospam.net> said: > Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? 3500... SignatureJ.J. in WA * 275/230/225 (mini) (COLD to HOT for e-mail) Thanks! SignatureHopeful (282,279,145) highest...294 > One dark day on Usenet, "Rainbow-Seeker" <nospam@nospam.net> said: > > > Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? > > 3500... >> Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? > >3500... So I have to burn 3500 cals to drop one pound of fat? To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how this works. ~Kat "The early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese." >>> Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? >> >>3500... > > So I have to burn 3500 cals to drop one pound of fat? > To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how this works. You have to eat less than you burned, by 3500 calories, to lose 1 pound of fat. i >You have to eat less than you burned, by 3500 calories, to lose 1 >pound of fat. > >i I think I need to buy the book. :) ~Kat "The early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese." >>You have to eat less than you burned, by 3500 calories, to lose 1 >>pound of fat. >> >>i > > I think I need to buy the book. :) you know, you are doing pretty well so far! i > >> Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? > > > >3500... > > So I have to burn 3500 cals to drop one pound of fat? > To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how this works. neither is anyone else, really, but 3500 is a good enough number for gov't work. > So I have to burn 3500 cals to drop one pound of fat? It's worse than that, actually. Few folks see loss that is 100% reduced fat. If you lost 1800 calories of lean muscle, that would be a pound. No loss plan ever acheived zero lean loss. Folks could potentially lose plenty of lean if they go too low in protein or do some metabolic trick that sacrafices lean rather than fat. And carbs are even worse. A pound of carb is also 1800 calories worth, but the body stores carbs dissolved in water. Water is 0 calories per pound. To lose a pound of carb+water might only take a few hundreds calories of deficit. There is one good part on the carb end of the equation - The body can only store just so much carb+water and then it's all gone. Folks who've lost 30+ pounds can't possibly have lost that much water. > To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how this works. No one is. Human bodies are extremely complex feedback systems. Anyways, one way or the other you have to take in at least 3500 fewer calories than you burn to lose a pound of fat and maybe more. You can do that by reducing calories but the body has this way of reducing its metabolism in response. You can do that by increasing metabolism without reducing calories (exercise and ketosis). With money Ben Franklin said "To become wealthy increase means or reduce expenses. Doing both works faster." This is equally true with loss. " Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and economics, we would all be better off if more people realized that simple nonlinear systems do not nececessarily posses simple dynamical properties." Biologist Robert Mays from his "messianic" paper in Nature ( 1976) "The Mathmatical Intuition" Thus greenhouse warming may produce another ice age rather than a warmer climate ( according to many scientists the more likely senario) and women who consume more calories weigh less than women who practice calorie reduction (according to the 125,000 women studied by Harvard). Likewise, calorie burning exercise has been shown to have no effect on weight. Long term studies of low calorie diet plans show a success rate of 2% ( the same 2% that become anorexix or bulemic on such programs). The average person on such a program actually gained 15% after two years in these studies. That so many "weight loss experts" show such innumeracy ( and refuse to accept my chalange to a swim suit competition) means a great opportunity for a class action lawsuit similar to the one won by the FTC against the false claims made by leading calorie reductions plans. Although this legal action only resulted in these companies adding small print disclaimers to their ads ( results not typical, etc ), I feel feel billions of dollars are still on the table. In a resent study adolesent offered an unlimmited buffet ate 30% fewer calories when offered a high fat selection than a low fat one. Nothing produces saity faster than fat. Ray Audette Author "NeanderThin" www.NeanderThin.com " Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and economics, we would all be better off if more people realized that simple nonlinear systems do not nececessarily posses simple dynamical properties." Biologist Robert Mays from his "messianic" paper in Nature ( 1976) "The Mathmatical Intuition" Thus greenhouse warming may produce another ice age rather than a warmer climate ( according to many scientists the more likely senario) and women who consume more calories weigh less than women who practice calorie reduction (according to the 125,000 women studied by Harvard). Likewise, calorie burning exercise has been shown to have no effect on weight. Long term studies of low calorie diet plans show a success rate of 2% ( the same 2% that become anorexix or bulemic on such programs). The average person on such a program actually gained 15% after two years in these studies. That so many "weight loss experts" show such innumeracy ( and refuse to accept my chalange to a swim suit competition) means a great opportunity for a class action lawsuit similar to the one won by the FTC against the false claims made by leading calorie reductions plans. Although this legal action only resulted in these companies adding small print disclaimers to their ads ( results not typical, etc ), I feel feel billions of dollars are still on the table. In a resent study adolesent offered an unlimmited buffet ate 30% fewer calories when offered a high fat selection than a low fat one. Nothing produces saity faster than fat. Ray Audette Author "NeanderThin" www.NeanderThin.com > Can someone please remind me of how many calories equal a pound of fat? 9 cal/gram 454 gram/pound 4086 cal/pound There's bound to be plenty of round-off in that 4086 number. Different types of fat and different purities of fat will run it anywhere from 3000 to 4500 calories. |
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