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How many calories to burn to lose weight?

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3600 per pound: Depends upon many factors such as height, actual current weight, age, body metaqbolism etc. Roughly 3600 kcalories per pound more burned than ingested is roughly equivalent to 1 #.

Answered 1/11/2013

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