Question: Walking speed

Most of the charts I've seen refer to a "150lb male" burns about 100 calories per mile.

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About how many calories am I burning? With clothes, I weigh 160lbs. and could stand to lose some
pounds. 🙂 I'm more on the chunky side as opposed to fat..

As for dieting, my eating habit includes 100% fruit juices, dinners prepped by Foodtown, frozen
dinners, pasta and Chunky soups. Yes, there is the occaisional sandwiches. Never really learned to
cook other than this. Any ideas as to what I can do?

I'd like to know the same thing. I'm in a similiar situation.

During my lunch hour I walked throughout downtown LA. I walk from 500 South Grand to 1900 South
Grand and back which ends up being 1.5 miles each way for a total of 3 miles. I power walk so I get
back to work within one hour. I weigh sadly 220 LBS and am 6.0 feet tall. I'd like to know how many
calories I burn. I also use the stairs mostly at work instead of taking the elevator so I can get
extra excerise. I feel it's better to walk during lunch than to sit for an hour. I eat before I
walk. I eat a light lunch. Low fat and low sugar. I think I'm loosing weight too.

Thanks,

James

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Ok, I actually do a lot of real walking out of necessity. Simply put, I can't drive due to low
vision so I HAVE to walk to Foodtown or HAVE to walk to where I need to go.

Still, my cardiologist said I need to get into a program of real walking as in a couple of miles a
day. This is in spite of the fact that my heart (so I'm told) is stronger than my body. 🙂 As it
is, walking 2 miles in a relatively flat area is a snap. I can walk up to 4 miles but I won't
claim daily.

However, I am in a downtown area with some good hills. Being a fast walker, it took me about an
hour to walk two miles and the route did include one main busy intersection and the usual traffic
in a busy small town.

Here is my question. About how many calories am I burning? With clothes, I weigh 160lbs. and could
stand to lose some pounds. 🙂 I'm more on the chunky side as opposed to fat..

As for dieting, my eating habit includes 100% fruit juices, dinners prepped by Foodtown, frozen
dinners, pasta and Chunky soups. Yes, there is the occaisional sandwiches. Never really learned to
cook other than this. Any ideas as to what I can do?

Cool! Then I'm burning about 200 calories due to my walking is 2 miles.

bj said:

Most of the charts I've seen refer to a "150lb male" burns about 100 calories per mile.

E-Z cook ideas -- fry up meat patties (beef, pork, whatever). Cook some rice -- multiple servings
at once, then portion out & fridge/freeze for later nuking. Frozen veggies are easy to nuke (just
read the directions on the package).

Salad bar -- not only for "salad" but for pre-cut ingredients for stir-fry.

"Barry Brindisi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

About how many calories am I burning? With clothes, I weigh 160lbs. and could stand to lose some
pounds. 🙂 I'm more on the chunky side as opposed to fat..

As for dieting, my eating habit includes 100% fruit juices, dinners prepped by Foodtown, frozen
dinners, pasta and Chunky soups. Yes, there is the occaisional sandwiches. Never really learned to
cook other than this. Any ideas as to what I can do?

caloriesperhour.comcaloriesperhour.comOpen ↗

Here's a site that will help to determine how many calories you're burning from exercise.

"Barry Brindisi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Ok, I actually do a lot of real walking out of necessity. Simply put, I can't drive due to low
vision so I HAVE to walk to Foodtown or HAVE to walk to where I need to go.

Still, my cardiologist said I need to get into a program of real walking as in a couple of miles a
day. This is in spite of the fact that my heart (so I'm told) is stronger than my body. 🙂 As it
is, walking 2 miles in a relatively flat area is a snap. I can walk up to 4 miles but I won't
claim daily.

However, I am in a downtown area with some good hills. Being a fast walker, it took me about an
hour to walk two miles and the route did include one main busy intersection and the usual traffic
in a busy small town.

Here is my question. About how many calories am I burning? With clothes, I weigh 160lbs. and could
stand to lose some pounds. 🙂 I'm more on the chunky side as opposed to fat..

As for dieting, my eating habit includes 100% fruit juices, dinners prepped by Foodtown, frozen
dinners, pasta and Chunky soups. Yes, there is the occaisional sandwiches. Never really learned to
cook other than this. Any ideas as to what I can do?

(Barry Brindisi) said:

As for dieting, my eating habit includes 100% fruit juices, dinners prepped by Foodtown, frozen
dinners, pasta and Chunky soups. Yes, there is the occaisional sandwiches. Never really learned
to cook other than this. Any ideas as to what I can do?

A lady my wife used to work with at a natural foods store keeps telling us that we can very
easily cut lots of calories (and likely save money) by drinking water, water, more water, and
nothing but water...

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"Barry Brindisi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

As for dieting, my eating habit includes 100% fruit juices, dinners prepped by Foodtown, frozen
dinners, pasta and Chunky soups. Yes, there is the occaisional sandwiches. Never really learned to
cook other than this. Any ideas as to what I can do?

Be careful of the fruit juices. Many contain a lot of sugar (carbs) and no fiber. Changing to fresh
fruit would provide you with less sugar and the fiber. If at all possible, drink water in place of
some of the juices.

If you want some great ideas on dieting you can jump over to alt.support.diet. Lots of helpful
people in the group trying to do the very same thing - lose weight, eat healthy and exercise.

Beverly

(James Lynx) said:

During my lunch hour I walked throughout downtown LA. I walk from 500 South Grand to 1900 South
Grand and back which ends up being 1.5 miles each way for a total of 3 miles. I power walk so I
get back to work within one hour.

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I weigh sadly 220 LBS and am 6.0 feet tall.

You and me both. (Well, okay, now that I've been walking for a week, and eating less "junk" and
"convenience" foods for financial reasons, my scale is saying I'm a few pounds lighter... like
215-218. But I'm aiming for 180, so... still got a long way to go!

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I'd like to know how many calories I burn.

I checked out that caloriesperhour.com site someone else mentioned, specifically
caloriesperhour.comindex burn.htmlOpen ↗ ... my walks are shorter (the block I live on is
conveniently 1.00-1.01 miles around) and faster (12:27 is my fastest so far, for a speed of just
over 4.8 mph; I rarely go under 4 mph). My best estimation, extrapolating from their figures for 4.5
and 5.0 mph, is that I'm burning about 150-155 calories a mile at that speed.

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I eat before I walk.

I tend to walk before I eat, actually, in hopes of elevating my metabolism so my body will burn
through whatever I eat faster. (Of course, exercise strangely limits my appetite, too.) An intense
lap or two around the block each day isn't burning all that much in and of itself, but combined with
eating less and eating better, it just might work. 🙂 As I drop weight, I'll have to add speed and
distance, of course.

(Of course, walking isn't all I do... I should also work on going snorkeling - without a snorkel,
I'm weird - more often, as that's good for about 700 calories an hour, and bicycling, which is
apparently good for about 800 calories an hour at my usual average speed.)

-Dan

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