How do I know how many calories I'm burning?

[JTRz13]

I'm having a hard time with this. I weigh 160, right? So that means I burn about 2050 a day from doing nothing. So do I just simply calculate the calories I burn from whatever activity/exercise I do and add it that number?

[Fygle]

Counting every calorie is going to do your head in, although others might say that's the way to go. I find it easier and more enjoyable to simply adjust diet slowly when I want to change weight, doing it by feel, watching the scale to see what works.

[JTRz13]

Nah, won't work. I pretty much need to know.

[Fygle]

It's hard (impossible?) to know how much you burn during exercise. There are more educated people around here who knows how many calories you should consume to most effectively lose weight, though.

[betsoff]

I have heard that the new heart monitors, the ones without the band, are pretty accurate on calorie burn. I don't have one myself, it is just something I have heard over time.

[KajolThappar]

Depends how fast your metabolism is, the more calories you eat the faster your metabolism gets to burn the food. Normal people burn about 1200 calories a day doing normal things. However someone starving themself like you has a very low metabolic rate. So you probably burn 100 calories if you move around a lot on your house. A walk would probably burn what you want. However people like me with fast metabolisms burn 1600 calories a day so I'm only 76 pds!!! =) Thats what happens when you eat and exercise like 24/7 like me!
people like you get no where and end up obsessing about food and don't get that thin anyway. Like mom was 5'4 and only 98 pounds when she was 20 and she ate like 4000 calories a day! Fast metabolism runs in the family because we're all dancers.

[Boss Man]

Your profile says you're 76lbs. That sounds incredibly underweight.

[Boss Man]

There are so many things wrong with what I just read that I'm going to go watch tv until I forget it...

HA!!!