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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Peter Ihle answered
54 years experience Orthopedic Surgery
Not necessarily.: It can depend on where you cut the 1400cals from, a 6000cal or a 3000cal diet as long as you have no cardiac or other problems, you should be fine. Ke ... Read More
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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
25 years experience Psychiatry
Weight loss: That will depend on a number of things. How many calories will you be burning per day? It is about (roughly) 100 calories per mile. It takes 3,500 cal ... Read More
Dr. Diane Minich answered
37 years experience Family Medicine
You have to: burn off 3500 more calories than you take in to loose 1 pound. A healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds a week so it will take you 6-12 months to loose 55 ... Read More
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Dr. Daniel Bates answered
8 years experience Family Medicine
Eat a little more: You actually want to shoot for a higher calorie goal. Diets less than 1500 calories per day are very hard to stick too, usually end up in bingeing due ... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Martin Fried answered
36 years experience General Practice
Metabolism: You may need more than 3500 calories a day. You may be mostly muscle and low in fat. Try having 2 -3 ounces of nuts a day or a nutritional drink conta ... Read More
A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Susan Arnoult answered
25 years experience Family Medicine
No worries: Congratulations! When you have a lot of weight to lose the initial pounds can come off very quickly. 1400 calories is fine and walking is fine. The ... Read More
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered
41 years experience Preventive Medicine
??: TooManyVariables: Calories burned varies with body wt, speed, incline, waling style, temperature, etc. Calories are units of heat to warm h20 as measured in a calorimet ... Read More
A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Addagada Rao answered
56 years experience General Surgery
More to it: How may calories you burned depends , on big are your steps ? . What is your weight , and how fast you are walking ? . If you are 180 lbs , 1 mile ... Read More
A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
25 years experience Psychiatry
Only - if you are a: Mouse. You will put your body into starvation mode and your metabolic rate will drop. This will possibly make you sick and you will actually gain wei ... Read More
A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Richard Ruth answered
22 years experience Internal Medicine
Walking: Any exercise is better than none. At least you did a little than none at all.
A 38-year-old member asked:
Dr. Rhett Griggs answered
19 years experience Hand Surgery
Well...: There are controversies...However high intensity training (hit) usually burns more calories in the same time period.
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