Can I lose 1-2 lbs a week doing this?

Question

I consume 2500 calories a day and I know 1 pound of fat equals 3500 calories. If I go to the gym and burn off 500-700 calories a day will that be sufficient enough to lose 1-2 lbs a week.

Answer 1

yea you should lose about 4 pounds a week.

Answer 2

This is not a sufficient amount of information. To lose one pound, you need a calorie deficit of 500 or more. Depending on your weight, height, and gender, this could mean 1500 calories, or it could mean 800 calories (like me, but I don't really need to lose weight, I need to gain weight!). Go to google or another search engine, and search 'bmr calculator'. It should tell you how many calories you burn naturally in a day, and then add about 600 to that number (if you are going to the gym everyday). Then subtract 500 from your new number, and that is how many calories you can eat in a day.

Answer 3

Try this, its a gud way to lose 3-5kgs in 7 days. It’s a start, the rest is upto you after this with help of exercise.

day 1 - only fruits (avoid bananas & milk)

day 2 - only veggies (avoid any kinda oil or fat)

day 3 - mix of fruit & veggies (avoid any kinda oil or fat or bananas & milk)

day 4 - only bananas & milk nothing else

day 5 - u feast on a cup of rice & six tomatoes & 12 glasses of water

day 6 - only veggies & 1cup of rice

day 7 - 1 cup rice, fruit juice and the vegetables you care to consume. Tomorrow morning you will be 3-5 Kgs lighter than 1 week ago.

Things to remember & (strictly) follow during the seven day program:

•No smoking or drinking during this period

•Drink a lot of water during the diet period (minimum of 8 to 10 glasses per day)

•Strictly no oily food or in-between junk food during the diet period

•No tea or coffee during these 7days with milk or sugar, if required u can have a cup a day of black tea or coffee

•No sweet food during the diet period

•Any cooking done needs to have less salt, less oil but can have condiments to make the food taste better

• Do not continue this diet after seven days. This can be done only once in 3months.

•Trust in your diet, it will show you the difference