It seems to me that the people I know underestimate the number of calories consumed and
over estimate calories burned.
Not exact matches
Once a person is well versed in the
calorie content of their staple foods I suppose they could just
estimate but faced with an ever increasing exposure to
over foods I imagine some
calorie counting is an inevitable part of healthy living.
If you track how many
calories you burn during physical activity for weight management, it is important to know if the numbers that you are working with are gross
calorie burn
estimates or net
calorie burn
estimates, because
over time the unaccounted for cumulative difference between net and gross
calorie burn can become significant.
Be careful as
calorie burn calculators on elliptical machines can be deceiving and will generally
over estimate the amount of
calories you have burned in a workout.
Based on these
estimates, women ages 19 to 30 need 1,800 to 2,400
calories, women ages 31 to 50 require 1,800 to 2,200
calories and women
over 50 need 1,600 to 2,200
calories.
I eat them daily and would
estimate that at least 25 % of my daily
calories come from Costco raw unsalted mixed nuts, though I'm not about to weigh, count, measure, quantify, or in any other way obsess
over it.
I have taken my heart beat while swimming and then found a calculator that tells me what someone my size burns while doing a mix of freestyle and «frog style» swimming, I enter that in the off body calculations and try to stay on the low end of
calories burned in case I am
over estimating.
Some people severely under
estimate their
calorie intake (and some
over estimate to).
The only problem is this is all an
estimate and being 200 to 300
calories off during the day can make a huge impact on your body
over a weeks time.
The researchers
estimate that
over the course of a year, a person who increases his water consumption by 1.5 liters a day would burn an extra 17,400
calories, for a weight loss of approximately five pounds.
Bitlock also maps your rides and gathers statistics on distance, speed, elevation,
estimated calories burned, and the amount of CO2 saved by riding your bike, and can be tracked
over time.
Unfortunately, that level of accuracy didn't carry
over to the
calorie burn
estimates.