How does your body use 2000 calories each day, but you need to run an extra mile to use up an additional 100 calories?

Question

Why can’t we eat and lose calories.. LOL

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Answer 1

About 1200 calories is required to keep your heart beating, lungs pumping, brain functioning, and body temperature constant. If you laid down and didn’t move a centimeter all day, you’d use that much. The other 800 calories is all of your daily activities (movement, digestion, etc).