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Calories Burned Converter

Convert calories burned (kcal) to other units, with every conversion from 1 kcal listed.

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Enter calories burned to see the body weight they correspond to, or a weight to see its calories.

About valueFor example 3500.
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Result
Result
0.129598 g
Rule used
3,500 kcal ≈ 1 lb of body weight (≈ 7,716 kcal per kg)

1 kcal ≈ 0.129598 g, by the 3,500-calorie rule of thumb; real weight change varies from person to person and usually slows over time.

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  1. pounds = kcal ÷ 3,500 = 1 ÷ 3,500 = 0.000286 lb
  2. 0.000286 lb = 0.129598 g

1 kcal in other units

About the units

Calories Burned (kcal)
Calories burned, a specialised unit. Food Calories (kcal) of energy burned; converted to body weight only through the 3,500 kcal per pound rule of thumb, never to energy units. Definition: Wishnofsky M. (1958), Caloric equivalents of gained or lost weight, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 6(5):542–546 (the 3,500 kcal per pound rule).

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