Excuse me for being a dumbass but...

[FrostyBoy]

...on the treadmill it tells you how many calories you burn. Yesterday I burned 400. But I want to know how this correlates to burning fat.

[KrazyHorse]

https://www.google.com

[FrostyBoy]

Thanks, but I need a reason to come here. If I stop coming to Apolyton, I might stop using the Internet altogether, then I'll suck at my job, then I'll have no money, then I'll be begging on the streets.

I know you understand.

[DaShi]

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[Elok]

Sorry, your level of dumbassitude is beyond pardoning. Now what's this about a treadmill?

[ZEE]

Is teh OP a trick question?

[Wiglaf]

If you ever need to pass a drug test, run on a treadmill and you will sweat out the detectable toxins. I have heard this will NOT work if you are black.

[SlowwHand]

Anything but pot will pass in 3 days anyway. What a joke.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Excuse me for being a dumbass

No.

[SpencerH]

...on the treadmill it tells you how many calories you burn. Yesterday I burned 400. But I want to know how this correlates to burning fat.

It doesnt. Thats the short answer.

[mrmitchell]

Exercising builds muscle and burns the calories that you've eaten recently. If you consistently exercise more than you eat, your body starts eating down your fat reserves. IIRC over 9000 calories = 1 pound of body fat.

Of course, if you do anything dumb like try to burn over 9000 calories without replacing them with food all in one day, your body will pretty much just say "F U" and work to sabotage your diet plans. It's probably even pushing it to lose one pound a week, if you want to keep it off for good. But that's as much due to habits as it is your body.

Better than counting calories anyway is to treat them (eating and burning) as two separate things. Just exercise for strength or fitness, and instead of worrying about burning X calories, make your diet better. Eat less fast foods, give up soda, eat more fruits, you should know the drill. Do one thing at a time so you can feel like you're accomplishing something.

If you don't eat breakfast and want to lose weight, start eating breakfast. Even though breakfast is a pretty small meal of the day, it jump starts your metabolism.

Dr. Mitchell
DFA, Internet Bull**** University*

*Not accredited in all fifty states.

[KrazyHorse]

IIRC xxx calories = 1 pound of body fat.

Could you please edit this out? We were all having fun NOT telling him this.

[Jon Miller]

It is actually pretty easy to lose 1 lb a week and keep it off. It is much more difficult to lose 2 lbs a week and keep it off, and that is actually the maximum that is still recommneded, only under the care of doctors.

These aren't 1 lb of fat though, that is 1 lb loss... losing fat versus losing other things (like muscle) is a bit more complicated.

JM

[SpencerH]

The usual number is 3500 cal in a pound of fat.

[Theben]

Sorry, your level of dumbassitude is beyond pardoning. Now what's this about a treadmill?

It's dumbassity. As in "you're currently operating at peak dumbassity."