Reply #38: But you use 2500 calorie a day just living

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Thus a average man uses 2500 calores a day, while an average woman uses
1900 calories per day.

The problem is one pound of fat equals 3500 calories.

Thus you have to INCREASE your outputs of calories (or decrease your inputs) to burn off the fat.

List of how much calories are used during what:
http://www.fitness.gov/exerciseweight.html

Obese Inactive people only start to lose weight if calorie intake drops below 800 calories per day, as compared to 1500 calories if the same person is active:
http://www.nutramed.com/weight/exercise.htm


http://www.canoe.ca/HealthMayeMusk/eatingdo.html
http://www.canoe.ca/HealthMayeMuskColumns/000104.html

For information on Biking and calories usage:
http://www.cptips.com/energy.htm

And a real nice biking/speed/velocity. Calorie usage calculator:
http://w3.iac.net/~curta/bp/velocity/velocity.html