Biggest Loser Tip

Your Body Burns Calories Three Ways

1. Resting metabolism (RMR)
Calories burned by your body just to stay alive and run all of your vital organs. This is the majority of the calories you'll burn. For most people this is 1200-2000 calories per day.

2. Daily activity
Calories burned by your body when you get out of bed and go about your day. For instance, when you walk to and from places during the day; or when you do basic housework and other LIFE things. For most people, they burn 300-600 calories per day but this amount can be much higher for those that do physical work all day.

3. Exercise
Calories burned by going to walk, swim, bike, weight train, do yoga, etc. For most people, this is 200-600 per exercise bout.

It's important to eat a calorie level at or near the RMR calorie level. Going lower can slow down the metabolism and make weight loss painfully slow. If you are exercising a lot, you'll need to bump up your calories otherwise you'll feel hungry or unusually tired and slow your weight loss.

Here's an example for a typical person:

1. RMR: 1300 calories burned
2. Daily Activity: 300-600 calories burned
3. Exercise: 200-400 calories burned

Total Calories Burned in a Day: 1800 - 2300 calories

So on light days, you burn 1800 calories and consumes 1300 – this is a 500-calorie deficit – which would lead to a pound per week weight loss if you did this everyday. (NOTE: One pound = 3,500 calories so a deficit of 500 calories per day x 7 days = 3,500 calories).

On the heavier days, you burn 2,300 calories and has a 1000-calorie deficit which would lead to a 2 pound per week weight loss.