Context: Live a very sedentary life, mostly eat home-cooked meals but occasionally fast food. Weight gain is very slow (I've quit chips and other snacks from supermarket that speeds it up). I've definitely been overweight for a long time however.
Really want to lose weight fast, surely even running 15 mins a day + 1 hr walk + improving my diet further will get rid of the weight (which would be a drastic improvement from where I am now)? But when I look up how many calories exercise burns off, it seems too low. Even if I burn off 500 a day, I'm eating at least 1000 calories a day, any less and I would be starving myself. A single home-made burger for lunch (with sandwich bread) would be 400 calories. So -500, +1000 = +500 calories gained.
Am I missing something here? Am I looking at faulty numbers? Or do I actually need to cut calories down even further? Or is my exercise plan naïve and not enough?
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