Defining A Calorie Deficit

August 22nd, 2013 by

A good blog post from Brad Pilon. I like this quote since I can relate so well to this here on this page:

“Just recently I saw someone type:

“walking does not burn a lot of calories”

which was countered with:

“walking burns calories. Any statement to the contrary is ridiculous.”

…reading what they wanted to read instead of what was written. The first statement doesn’t say walking burns ZERO calories…it says “doesn’t not burn A LOT of calories”, but the term ‘a lot’ is subjective, so the second person chose to read it as saying ‘walking burns NO calories.’

This is why diet and nutrition is so hard to discuss with people. People hear what they want to hear, read what they want to read, and define words the way they want them defined.”

Brad goes onto offer his definitions for a caloric deficit, maintenance and a caloric surplus in this blog post.