Something to think about

So I was looking at the calories in a can of soda and had a couple of thoughts:


Root beer 12 oz can: 150 calories


One mile run for 185lb male: 150 calories


So one can of soda is one mile run.

One soda/day for 365 is 150x365=54750 calories

9 calories per gram of fat= 9000 calories/kilogram of fat

54750 calories(one year of soda)/9000= 6kg or 13 lbs

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So if 1kg is 2.2lbs and also equal to 9000 calories.

And one mile is 150calories

One would have to run 60 miles to loose 2.2 pounds of fat calories!

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For the sake of simplification leaving out a soda perday and keeping all other things equal you would loose (or more approptiately, not gain) 13 lbs each year.

If you run 1 mile/day for a whole year (365x150) you would burn and loose 13lbs/year.

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These are simplifications and do not take into consideration basal metabolism. Increasing your basal metabolism by exercise increases your ability to burn fat by 10-30% (2000cal/day to 2200 or 2600cal/day)

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If you are 50lbs overweight (22kg) that equates to 1320 miles to walk to lose that weight. Or the distance from Nauvoo IL, to Salt Lake UT.

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Diet alone cannot lose the weight. Exercise alone cannot lose the weight, it has to be a combination of less in and more out.