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Calories Burned to Stones Converter

Convert calories burned (kcal) to stones (st), with the formula, a conversion table and exact factors.

Change the values and press Calculate to work out your own figures.

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

About valueFor example 3500.
About fromCalories burned or a weight.
About toWhat to convert to.
Result
Result
0.00002 st
Rule used
3,500 kcal ≈ 1 lb of body weight (≈ 7,716 kcal per kg)

1 kcal ≈ 0.00002 st, by the 3,500-calorie rule of thumb; real weight change varies from person to person and usually slows over time.

Show the working
  1. pounds = kcal ÷ 3,500 = 1 ÷ 3,500 = 0.000286 lb
  2. 0.000286 lb = 0.00002 st

How to convert calories burned to stones

1 st = 49,000 kcal, so divide by 49,000 to go from calories burned to stones (1 kcal = 0.00002 st).

st = kcal ÷ 49,000
kcal = st × 49,000

Worked example:

pounds = kcal ÷ 3,500 = 5 ÷ 3,500 = 0.001429 lb
0.001429 lb = 0.000102 st

Calories Burned to stones table

Calories BurnedStones
1 kcal0.00002 st
2 kcal0.000041 st
3 kcal0.000061 st
4 kcal0.000082 st
5 kcal0.000102 st
6 kcal0.000122 st
7 kcal0.000143 st
8 kcal0.000163 st
9 kcal0.000184 st
10 kcal0.000204 st
15 kcal0.000306 st
20 kcal0.000408 st
25 kcal0.00051 st
30 kcal0.000612 st
40 kcal0.000816 st
50 kcal0.00102 st
75 kcal0.001531 st
100 kcal0.002041 st
250 kcal0.005102 st
500 kcal0.010204 st
1000 kcal0.020408 st

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).
Stones (st)
Stones, a imperial unit. Definition: UK Weights and Measures Act 1985, Schedule 1 (imperial units).

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