exercise

Question
What is a good number of calories to burn to remain the same weight. I try to burn 1500 a day. Is this enough to burn a day or will I gain weight.

Answer
The question of maintaining weight comes down to balancing calorie intake with energy expenditure. Depending on the characteristics of how your body uses energy, you could have a base metabolic rate between 1500 and 2500 calories per day. To this value you would add the calories you burn in exercise. Then, to maintain weight you would consume that total number of calories.

You mentioned burning 1500 calories per day. How do you measure that? That is equivalent to 15 miles of running or walking -- an awfully high exercise load. Are you doing a wide range of exercises? It would be best to spread the calorie burn around to many muscle groups.

There are websites that can help you calculate your basic metabolic rate. So to answer your question: whether you gain or lose depends on how many calories you eat per day.