General Cycling Discussion - Calories or kCalories?

Using the Polar Precision Software, it displays the calories I burn in terms of kilo-calories. Even when I don't say too much, I easily burn over 350 kCal (for easy calculation below) every week.

They say you need to burn 3500 calories to lose 1 pound of fat. 350000/3500 = 100. It means that I burn over 100 pounds of fat each week. It will mean that within a week, I would be all bones.

Would someone clear this up? Do I burn calories or kilo-calories? Or is it that I need to burn 3500 kcalories to burn one pound of fat?

I don't tend to bother with HRM's or counting calories or that sort of thing as I prefer to listen to body signals instead but keep in mind when you exercise you are not only burning bodyfat and often depending on the intensity of the exercise stored carbs are the bodies preferred fuel.Also remember ingested calories will have to be accounted for as well.If however you do end up burning a lot of bodyfat while not taking in enough additional calories the body will start trying to preserve it by breaking down muscle for use as fuel.

"In medicine and dietetics, the energy content of food is measured in kilocalories, which are often referred to as calories."

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Just a confusion of terms. They really mean 3500 KC

Yes, Kilocalories and calories are the same thing. The general public uses the term calories, whereas the professionals in their studies and work often use Kilocalories.

If I recall correctly it is convention to call a kilocalorie a Calorie meaning 1000 calories. Get it? 1000 calories = 1 Calorie. Why do they do this? Your guess is as good as mine. When you're reading if it's a Calorie (c is capitalised) they mean a kilocalorie.

No man, Calorie is just short for Kilocalorie. They're the same.