What it takes to lose a pound of weight!!!

Dr Fomsky | January 25, 2011

I’m the kind of person who believes in appraising situations, making goals and working towards them. After I had my son two years ago, I realized that in spite of all the exercise I was doing, I wasn’t losing any weight. That was how I found out that before I could lose one pound of weight, I needed to burn 3500 calories. This is not a fixed formula: For some overweight people, you can lose one pound by burning slightly less while some other people need to burn more than 3500 calories to lose one pound.

For you to lose weight successfully, you must have a long-term weight goal but you must also know how many calories you need to lose to reach this goal at your targeted time. My goal is to be 64 kg before September 10th, 2011 and from calculations, I need to have a daily calorie deficit of 482 or 3374 calories weekly. I can do this by:

cutting out 482 calories from my diet daily;
burning 482 calories daily by exercising or a cumulative 3374 calories weekly; or
a combination of both on different days.

If you have the opportunity to join a gym, you should always take note of the amount of calories you burn at the end of your exercise session. Different activities produce different calorie burn. For example: 30 minutes of general low impact aerobics, you will burn an average of 224 calories.

To calculate how many calories to lose weekly, click here.

Dr Fomsky

About the author

Dr Fomsky

Nigerian-born Dr Fomsky is a God-lover, a wife, a mom of three and a medical doctor by day. She is very passionate about hair, skin and weight management. Since she had babies, she's been struggling to keep her weight and her tummy down!
At night, she likes to read books, write blog posts and leave comments on other blogs. She lives in Paris, France and is also the author of Solving your relaxed hair breakage book
ABOUT DR FOMSKY'S
HAIR TYPE: 'Texlaxed' hair, High porosity, Fine hair strands, low to moderate density
CURRENT LENGTH: Between shoulder and armpit length
LOVING: Argan oil for sealing, Brown Butter Beauty Love Deep conditioner, Shescentit Blueberry Co-wash conditioner and Hairveda Red Tea Satin Moisturizer
LONG-TERM PLAN: Trim off bone-straight ends (6 inches left) over time