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Stones to Calories Burned Converter

Convert stones (st) to calories burned (kcal), 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
49,000 kcal
Rule used
3,500 kcal ≈ 1 lb of body weight (≈ 7,716 kcal per kg)

1 st ≈ 49,000 kcal, 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. 1 st = 14 lb
  2. kcal = pounds × 3,500 = 49,000 kcal

How to convert stones to calories burned

1 st = 49,000 kcal, so multiply by 49,000 to go from stones to calories burned. Going the other way, 1 kcal = 0.00002 st.

kcal = st × 49,000
st = kcal × 0.00002

Worked example:

5 st = 70 lb
kcal = pounds × 3,500 = 245,000 kcal

Stones to calories burned table

StonesCalories Burned
1 st49,000 kcal
2 st98,000 kcal
3 st147,000 kcal
4 st196,000 kcal
5 st245,000 kcal
6 st294,000 kcal
7 st343,000 kcal
8 st392,000 kcal
9 st441,000 kcal
10 st490,000 kcal
15 st735,000 kcal
20 st980,000 kcal
25 st1,225,000 kcal
30 st1,470,000 kcal
40 st1,960,000 kcal
50 st2,450,000 kcal
75 st3,675,000 kcal
100 st4,900,000 kcal
250 st12,250,000 kcal
500 st24,500,000 kcal
1000 st49,000,000 kcal

About the units

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