<p>15 pounds of fat * 3500 calories / (10 weeks * 7 days) = 750 calories excess per day…</p>
<p>Someone want to check that?</p>
<p>Yes, the actual amount of calories burn during exercise isn’t all that impressive. But vigorous exercise takes your appetite away in the immediate aftermath and it revs up your metabolism. If I couldn’t exercise I’d really balloon up.</p>
<p>TCBH - change the units from calories to calories / lb fat</p>
<p>Like other people have said - watch what you eat, and make sure that you make time to excercise. 30 min a few times a week is a great way to start! Also - do you drink? Booze is almost certainly a factor in weight gain for many college freshmen because it contains large amounts of calories, and is usually consumed at night, when there’s no chance to burn it off.</p>
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<p>If you want to do proper dimensional analysis you would put 7 days/wk too. But 750 calories per day is WAY over. You need to pay close attention to what you’re eating, because something is going wrong there.</p>
<p>Exercise is the most important, before even eating right, because that’s what gives you energy, boosts your metabolism, and makes you truly feel good. When you exercise regularly you won’t want to eat crap, usually. It’s a beautiful (or dangerous, depending on which end you are) cycle. Yoga is a great form of exercise, but to really lose weight I’d do more cardio – running, stairs, or elliptical, for example. </p>
<p>But of course, to really see a difference you need to exercise and eat right. There’s no way to go around it… people can give you all the advice they want, but that’s the only real answer. Exercise, eat right. Done. It gets easier the longer you do it.</p>