calorie - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • burn: For example, walking 3 miles per hour will burn more calories than walking 1.5 miles per hour.
  • consume: The average person consumes 3500 calories on Christmas Day alone.
  • expend: In order to promote weight loss, one must expend more calories than they consume.
  • count: Here are those: smoking, counting calories, reading horoscopes.
  • eat: The only real way to lose weight is by eating fewer calories than your body burns in a given day.
  • calculate: Does ' calculating the calories ' take all the fun out of eating?

Adjective modifier

  • excess: Instead of taking in excess calories, you'll be burning them!
  • empty: All these supply empty calories which lead to weight gain Cut back on alcohol.
  • fat: That's over 4,500 fat calories each day - hardly conducive to fat loss!
  • total: The Totals gives total duration, total calories, total exercise count.

Noun used with modifier

  • burning: Physical exercise not only influences body weight by burning calories, it also helps raise your BMR by building extra lean tissue.

Preposition: of

  • carbohydrate: Eat at least 200-400 calories of carbohydrate within two hours of a hard workout.

Preposition: from

  • fat: On average, they get about 38 per cent of their calories from fat.

Preposition: per

  • gram: There are 4 calories per gram of protein, just like a carbohydrate.

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