I Am 5 Foot 8 And Weigh 280 Pounds. How Many Calories Should I Burn A Week Through Exercise?

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I Am 5 Foot 8 And Weigh 280 Pounds. How Many Calories Should I Burn A Week Through Exercise?

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Answer 1

You have to restrict fats in take and protein not more than 28 gram per day. Burning calories depends upon type of exercise. One hour daily swimming can burn 400-500 calories and in a week time 2800-3500 calories. Same amount of calories can be burned with two hours of brisk walk daily. If you you join a gym then more calories can be burned.

Answer 2

Your body mass mass index is approximately 42 your ideal BMI is less than 25 therefore you are considered to be morbidly obese or over weight. If losing 100_lbs or more is your goal then you need to follow strictly this intake, I will not use the term diet as diet's sabotage metabolism.

No more than 85_grams of carbohydrates per day, no nutritive sugars, high fiber and high protein. The amt. Of protein you take in may tend to curb your appetite. Then you need to exercise at least 1 hour per day. You will need to eat enough fat to jump start the metabolic processes that will allow to burn the unwanted or excess fat.

Answer 3

It takes a LOT of exercise to burn a lot of calories. However, the more fit you are, the more you will burn. When you exercise, you build muscle and muscle will burn calories

Answer 4

Kid2081.. The more out of shape you are, the harder your body has to work(therefore the more calories you will burn)

1lb of just fat is 3500calories

Eat less, move more.

Ive lost 70lbs in 6 months

Answer 5

At 5'8 and 280 pounds, you will be able to see a lot of weight loss in your first few weeks if you follow a proper diet/exercise regime.

The reason being that the 'normal' weight for someone 5'8 is 125-158lb, so it would be much easier for you to sustain a larger caloric deficit.

You see, in order to maintain your current weight, you'd need to take in bodweight x 15 calories/day.

So: 280 x 15 = 4,200 calories/day.

Now as a guy, the lowest amount of calories you should be eating a day is 1,500 calories...as a girl it is 1,200.

I'm guessing you're a guy based on your avatar, so if you ate 1,500 calories, you'd be at a 2,700 calorie deficit each day.

To lose 1 pound, you need to burn 3,500 calories...so simply by eating 1,500 calories, you're close to burning 1 pound/day as it is.

If you added exercise, you could burn an additional 500 calories per hour.

So assuming you did 1 hour on an elliptical each day, you COULD burn 3,200 calories/day...

This would allow you to burn 22,400 calories/week which is 6.4 pounds/week.

Keep in mind the first week you're likely to lose an additional 4-5 pounds of water weight as well.

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