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Originally Posted by Blackberry
I've started working out with a personal trainer in order to lose weight (4-5 kg) and get my body into shape and thinner figure.
She said I need to eat 1000 cals a day and exercise everyday (fast walking 10 minutes and 100 sit-ups in sets). That burns barely 150 cals. It means 800 cals stay in my body as fat. Am I right? Can someone explain to me the logic of this?
(I would ask my trainer but she's on a honeymoon for a week).
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If you're eating only 1000 calories a day you will probably lose weight even if you don't exercise. Even that chick on biggest loser ate more calories than that per day (probably around 1200).
If you exercise and burn 200 calories, it isn't as if the other 800 hang around to become fat. You burn 80 calories taking a 20 minute shower. You burn 40 calories sitting on the toilet for 20 minutes. You burn 80 while eating lunch. Etc. If you were 5'6" weighing 150 lbs and worked out for 30 minutes a day you would have to eat over 2,000 calories a day just to maintain your weight. That's what your body uses up just doing stuff.