{"id":57,"date":"2006-08-03T00:16:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T07:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/weightloss\/counting-calories"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:49","slug":"counting-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/counting-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Calories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes about 3500 calories to burn off a pound of fat.\u00c2\u00a0 If I eat 3000 calories a day and burn 3500 calories a day, I lose a pound a week.\u00c2\u00a0 So\u00c2\u00a0for me to loose weight I have to determine\u00c2\u00a0how many calories a day do I burn, then set my diet to 1000 &#8211; 1500 calories a day less than that number.\u00c2\u00a0 If I do that, I loose 2-3 pounds a week.\u00c2\u00a0 So, how many calories a day do I burn?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Do\u00c2\u00a0a quick google search and you will find a calorie calculator (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.primusweb.com\/fitnesspartner\/jumpsite\/calculat.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Calorie Calculator<\/a>) to help determine how many calories you burn while\u00c2\u00a0exercising.\u00c2\u00a0 I already know from my Bod Pod test that I burn 2200 calories a day while at rest.\u00c2\u00a0 According to the calorie calculator, I burn 2088 calories EACH WAY!\u00c2\u00a0 So on week days when I ride both ways, I burn about 6500 calories a day.\u00c2\u00a0 If I could keep my caloric intake down to about 3000 calories, I would loose a pound a day!\u00c2\u00a0 I really need to start counting my caloric intake &#8211; I gained weight last week.\u00c2\u00a0 How much am I taking in each day to rip through 6500 calories and still put weight on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes about 3500 calories to burn off a pound of fat.\u00c2\u00a0 If I eat 3000 calories a day and burn 3500 calories a day, I lose a pound a week.\u00c2\u00a0 So\u00c2\u00a0for me to loose weight I have to determine\u00c2\u00a0how many calories a day do I burn, then set my diet to 1000 &#8211; 1500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}