# How to lose a beer gut? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355 "2002-06-28T10:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/21 "2002-07-01T03:47:03Z")
Few more questions: 1. How many calories does one need to intake in order to lose wieght? 2. If the device is wrong, how how would one gague how many calories work on a cross-trainer/bike/walker would burn? 3. How many calories are burned throughout the day without the exercise? For example, say one does about an hour worth of exercise, but the rest of the day is spent sitting at the office, watching television, and eating a nice healthy dinner of hot pockets? ---
**Author:** ![whiteboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@whiteboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiteboy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/22 "2002-07-01T04:00:28Z")
BEER HAS FOOD VALUE, FOOD DOES NOT HAVE BEER VALUE. ---
**Author:** ![whiteboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@whiteboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiteboy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/23 "2002-07-01T04:07:05Z")
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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/24 "2002-07-01T06:34:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*Few more questions: > > 1. How many calories does one need to intake in order to lose wieght?\*\* For a guy, probably about 1500–the number I’ve seen for starvation is 1200, and you want a little more than that. Personally, I wouldn’t try to get by on anything less than 2000, but that’s just my preference. > [@](#): > > **2) If the device is wrong, how how would one gague how many calories work on a cross-trainer/bike/walker would burn?** I’m not real sure. The device may not be that wrong–most of the ones I’ve seen ask you for your weight and age, and that probably gives you a rough estimate. > [@](#): > > \*\*3) How many calories are burned throughout the day without the exercise? For example, say one does about an hour worth of exercise, but the rest of the day is spent sitting at the office, watching television, and eating a nice healthy dinner of hot pockets? \*\* Do a google on “base metabolic rate” for some answers to this. Short answer is that it depends on your age, weight, height, and gender, among other things. ---
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/25 "2002-07-01T07:22:16Z")
Well, I have an odd predicament in this catagory. My job is toting people around on a bike for anywhere from 7 to 11 hours a day(rikshaws). I started a month and a half ago and I really haven’t seen much change in my physique. I eat healthy, so I don’t think that’s the problem. I’m not fat, but I’ve still got a little gut that I wanted to get rid of. If I’m riding around for this long four days a week with an extra three to six hundred pounds lounging in the back carriage, why haven’t I lost weight or toned up? ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/26 "2002-07-01T07:33:14Z")
If you’ve got a few thousand dollars spare change and you’re in reasonably good health, you could look into lipo. Or you might try ordering one of those videos from Fitness Celebrity John Basedow. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/27 "2002-07-01T13:50:47Z")
calories: body weight X 12 to sustain life. Add little calories more for youth, subtract a little for age. Exercise: add it in…here is a source to calc how much exercise = how many calories. [http://www.personalhealthzone.com/caloriesburned.html](http://www.personalhealthzone.com/caloriesburned.html) Eat 500-1000 less per week than you burn. When you body runs out of external food, it taps fat supplies. When it taps fat supplies at a 3500 weekly clip, that 3500 fat calories is one lb of body fat that is burned. So, eat 1800 calories per day, and burn 2800 per day and your body will be forced to tap the fat supplies. Once you have ti down to a science, you won’t even need the scale to tell you you lost 1 or 2 pounds…you’ll know by the math. 3500 calorie defict = 1 pound of body fat burned. OH! By the way…if you think you can exercise off a day of cheating, or get away wit just exercise, remember that dieting/eating right is about 90-95% of the battle. If you want to lose one pound of BODY FAT, wake up tomorrow and walk 50 miles on an empty stomache. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355/28 "2002-07-01T13:55:51Z")
175 lbs X 12 = 2100 (a moderatelty active 35 y/o male @ 175lbs could eat 2000-2200 cals per day and would maintain his weight, more or less. It takes about 1800 calories for this male to wake up and live like a sloth all day.) Now, imagine if this guy burned about 400 extra a day on real exercise. And then if he trimmed his calories to 1500. If he stuck to it, he’d lose 2 lbs per week …of BODY FAT…which is what you want to burn…provided he eats right and exercises. Because we don’t want to lose just weight, we want to lose body fat weight…and exercise keeps the muscles mass around, and both boost the metabolism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-a-beer-gut/116355.md?page=1)