How many calories am I really burning.?

As you BUILD MUSCLE, you will automatically burn MORE calories. I'd work on building muscle (at least 3 times a week) not JUST on burning calories, via biking. Sure, you can build a little muscle doing biking and it is great CARDIO, but you need to build MUSCLE.

I would encourage you to drop as many WHITE carbs & grains as possible, to loose more weight. (Atkins or South Beach type diets as an example.) Aside from being INFLAMMATORY, sugar produced by white cards raises blood sugar and increases the amount of insulin produced. Extra or increased insulin will make you deposit more of the excess calories, as FAT.

We can't exactly, know, but the bike number seems low.

I'm sure neither is correct. You're right that testing anything in any accurate way takes far more doing than plugging a few numbers into your phone. And even at that point, it's based on a few samples that have nothing to do with you. They lend a sense of certainty, but in reality they are nothing more than Uncle Joe saying "oh yeah, like ya know, kinda that thing, ...200 calories." He and the machine basically pulled it out of their ***. It's the poo-cake of a lifetime of experience and/or algorithms.

Fit Bits and the like have been thoroughly tested by reputable, proper sources to be about 70% accurate when tested against more traditional measures.

My advice is that you simply can not do what it takes to lose weight.... yet. This is not a me vs you thing, but I want to give some perspective. I didn't feel like waiting for the bus, so I carried my groceries home for a 30 min walk. Maybe 3 miles with maybe 40 lbs of packs. It was work, but that's life. I've really considered calling the ambulance on some people trying to put groceries into their car as i walk by.

Just go, is my advice. Do as much as you can as hard as you can. And remember you need fuel to do it. They gym is sad, seriously. It's all people with no idea not doing anything. They will figure it out if they tried and did anything.

If you just stop working out when you still feel like you have the energy stores to run another mile because they computer said so, you are not burning fat or calories. You're just stopping and burning nothing. When did you lose weight from your everyday life?

You are going about this the wrong way...and it won't work (hasn't yet, has it?).

You would have to use the elliptical for one hour just to burn off a cookie.

4 hours for lunch.

4 hours for dinner.

You'd need to exercise MORE to burn more calories.

Think about it logically. It's impossible. Their aren't enough hours in the day to burn off the fat and live your life!

Your body takes care of this. Your metabolism speeds up automatically when you eat more and slows when you eat less.

'Dieting' SLOWS down your metabolism, so you will have to exercise twice as much!

You gained fat not because of inactivity, but because you eat/drink sugar.

Sugar, honey and flour are all very high in fructose, and it is fructose thatis making you fat.

Fructose is a poison that gets turned into bad fat and chemicals (aldehyde) that make it so you can never feel full.

Eventually the messing with your hormones leads to diabetes II.

Stop eating sugar and the fat will melt away; no exerci

Walk or run a mile burns 100 calories.

Burn 3500 calories = one pound of fat loss

(Water loss does not count)