It doesn't seem quite right to me. First of all, even if you do nothing special to "burn" calories, you'll use more calories than your BMR unless you're comatose for 24 hours a day. Here's how I would do it:
1. If your BMR is 1,600, multiply that by 1.2 to get the number of calories you use per day just living and breathing. That would be 1,920 calories.
2. So if you eat 1,920 calories per day without doing any exercise, you'll neither lose nor gain weight. (It goes without saying that everyone is different, but this is a ballpark.)
3. If you want to lose 3 pounds per week WITHOUT eating less, then you have to burn an extra 10,500 calories per week or 1,500 calories per day through exercise (which is a **** of a lot). That would bring your total calorie burn to 1,920 + 1,500 = 3,420.
4. An alternative would be to eat 500 fewer calories (i.e., 1,490) and burn 1,000 extra calories through exercise (which is still excessive, in my opinion). More realistic, though still ambitious, would be to eat 500 fewer calories and burn off 500 through exercise every day, which would lead to a loss of 2 pounds per week.
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