Nov
28
a treadmill tells how many calories have been burned. Are they calories of food eaten or about to eat?
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I use the treadmill or stationary bike early in the morning before any meals. So when they tell me that I have burned 400 calories, etc., are they calories that I consumed yesterday or the ones that will be consumed during the day?
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that’s the amount of calories you’ve burned during the workout…
It’s the amount of calories that are burnt off from yesterday’s food. You can’t burn off the calories you haven’t eaten yet.
Defining calorie is tricky, because the definition leaves us with the statement, so what does that mean (Calorie- amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius)? Think of it as how much your body is burning off. Like if you have gas in your gas tank, how much is burned off. You eat to give you energy, you work out and use that energy. If you lie on the couch, you burn off fewer calories than if you run 5 miles. Hope this helps.
it is the amount of calories you have burned while working out
it is what you have burned while on the treadmill but beware that it is just an estimate and not a true total of burned calories.
That’s the amount burned at your workout machine for however long. It’s yesterday’s food calories stored and calories from fat stored. Logically, you can’t burn calories that weren’t there in the first place.
A calorie is a unit of energy. When you look at the calorie count of a food it is telling you the amount of energy you will need to produce to burn it. The calorie counter on the treadmill is telling you the amount of energy you’ve burned. It doesn’t matter if it’s today’s food or yesterdays food. It’s all good and it all counts.
Yep, they’re all right. But, most of those machines read too high, so to be more accurate, knock off about 10%.
You can think of this like a bank account. Your body has a certain energy balance onboard, which is spread out among fat, protein and carbohydrates. The calorie count on your treadmill represents that amount that you have withdrawn from your existing total balance, which comes from food you have eaten in the past. What you eat in the future will add to your energy balance.