calorie in vs calorie out

[Berry8491]

Hi 🙂 So i was just wondering. I am a custodian at a university so i am always moving around. i usually burn about 4000 calories a day but i only eat 2000. I'm not starving myself or anything. I eat when i'm hungry. I know this is a stupid question but will i lose weight that way? 

[whome]

Seems to me that if you are actually burning 4000 calories a day and only eating 2000 a day then you would already be losing about 2 & 1/2 lbs a week and wouldn't need to ask that question - and my conclusion is based on doing that only 5 working days a week - 5 days a week at a 2000 calorie a day deficit is a 10,000 calorie a week deficit - since 3,500 calories = 1 lb the 10,000 calories = aprox 2.5 lb - 

or did I misunderstand something?

good luck

[Heybales]

You feeling full, and your body being fully fed for your level of activity or 2 very different things.

You can effect how hungry you are actually by the amount you do eat, messing up your hormones.

Undereat long enough, hunger will no longer be a reliable indicator.

Come back close to maintenance, and your body will desire to go back to old levels of fat and make you feel hungrier than you need to be, again not reliable.

Use your brain, not your stomach.

So to your 2000 calorie deficit, if you are indeed logging all food correctly weighed and really eating that low compared to what you burn - ya, unless you got 200 lbs to lose right now - bad idea.

Because 2000 deficit daily is 4 lbs weekly (2000 x 7 / 3500).

You will lose weight, but you want to lose muscle mass as part of it?

That sucks to have your metabolism go down from what it could be because you lose that.

A reasonable deficit for amount to lose is much better for your body.

How much you got to lose?

The other side of the equation that could be effected by all the walking. Your stride length.

A slight measurement means nothing if you walk 3 miles. But if you do 8-10 daily, that could be bad inflation then.

You measured your normal walking stride length yet, and running if you do it?

FAQ on Fitbit on doing that with treadmill or track there at the school.

Just walk a quarter mile (confirm track has that and not doing metric distance) at normal pace and stride while counting each right foot step.

Take 1320 feet / (steps x 2) = feet per stride. You'll have to change that decimal part to inches.

Change in Settings - Personal Info - Body Info section.

Because you may not be burning that much. But don't create too big a deficit, that's not healthy for the body either.