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Conference rocks::weight_control

Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
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Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Mon Jul 09 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

471.0. "How many calories in a pound of fat?" by BMT::COMAROW (Subway Series in 89) Tue Jun 20 1989 15:57

    How many calories are in a pound of fat.     
    
    _bob_who's_finally_back_on_the_shedding_wagon

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471.1Well......MSDOA::MCMULLINTue Jun 20 1989 17:0413
    Bob,
    
    I'm not sure I understand your question.  Are you wanting to know
    how many calories you have to burn to lose a pound?  If that's the
    question, I believe it's 3500 (someone please correct me if I'm
    wrong).  Or, are you asking if you sat down and ate a pound of say
    butter, which is considered fat, how many calories would you be
    consuming?  
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    Virginia 

471.3CALLME::MR_TOPAZWed Jun 21 1989 09:035
       To answer the question posed in .0, a pount of fat contains
       about 4,025 calories.  
       
       --Mr Topaz

471.4ANT::ZARLENGAnow that sounds pretty SICK to meWed Jun 21 1989 10:5110
	I've always seen 3500 as the calorie content.
    
    	But, now that I think about it, 8-9 calories/gm, 454 gm/lb,
    gives 3632-4086 calories total.
    
    	So somewhere around 3850.
    
    -mike z

471.510 Pounds - 10 Days So FarBMT::COMAROWSubway Series in 89Thu Jun 22 1989 07:3110
>    	But, now that I think about it, 8-9 calories/gm, 454 gm/lb,
>    gives 3632-4086 calories total.

    A *lot* of times around the track.   

    How many calories does the average person burn a day.? A typical
    hard working Deccie systems type, burning the keyboard, getting
    those docs, and all those physically challenging activities of us 
    software types?

471.6Should I send the thought to Arsenio?...HmmmmCADSE::SPRIGGSDarlene..Making Music ALL THE TIME!Thu Jun 22 1989 13:1711
    I'm not 100% sure on this, but for the "drives to work; sits at work"
    types, it takes about 12 cal./lb body weight.  You have to add extra
    for other types of activity throughout the day (walking at lunch, etc).
    You should also keep in mind that water weighs 2 lbs./qt.
    
    Hmmm.  The water fact brings about another question.  If you eat, say,
    � lb. of chicken, do you gain the � lb of pure weight in addition to
    the weight that comes from the calories? (assuming that overeating is
    a pattern)  I guess this is only important if you get weighed after
    eating or drinking or have a problem eliminating.  Oh well.....

471.7Well, I was wrong .6CADSE::SPRIGGSDarlene..Making Music ALL THE TIME!Fri Jun 23 1989 11:2213
    The following came out of a book designed for women:
    
    Activity Level			Multiply your weight by
    --------------			-----------------------
    Does nothing actively			12
    Rides to work, sits at work			14
    Teacher, mother of small children		16
    On the move most of the time		18
    Physical worker plus extra exercise		20
    
    The result is the approximate number of calories/day you need to
    maintain your present weight.

471.8Is that your current weight or goal weight?!ATSE::BLOCKThis Area Zoned for TwilightFri Jun 23 1989 11:471
471.9Current Weight.CADSE::SPRIGGSDarlene..Making Music ALL THE TIME!Fri Jun 23 1989 14:252
    

471.10ANT::ZARLENGAVicky Vale. She's great, isn't she?Sun Jun 25 1989 00:1415
.6>    Hmmm.  The water fact brings about another question.  If you eat, say,
.6>    � lb. of chicken, do you gain the � lb of pure weight in addition to
.6>    the weight that comes from the calories? (assuming that overeating is

    	If you eat 8 ounces of chicken, then immediately weight
    yourself, you will be 8 ounces heavier.  If you drink a pound of
    water at the same meal, you will be another pound heavier.
    
    	If you weight for digestion and defecation (trip to the throne),
    you will be heavier by the caloric content of the chicken, give
    or take many other variables which I'm negelecting.
    
    -mike z