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by ChrisRR 393 days ago
My weight loss shows a huge difference in cycling vs. burning the same number of calories walking
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> the same number of calories

How do you measure the calories burned ? Get 10 different devices you'll get 10 different measures.

Maybe they put their daily food intake and feces both into a bomb calorimeter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter and measure the difference?
> Maybe they put their daily food intake and feces both into a bomb calorimeter

Not at the same time, I would hope