How Many Calories Do You Need to Lose Weight?

by Nik Tartin WS

The calories required to lose fat may vary considerably
depend on how much weight you need to drop off. Losing fat
is all about energy using up coupled with the amount of
calories consumed in a day, so if you increase activity as
well as make smarter food choices, you may actually get away
with eating more.

Finding Your Calories needed to drop off fat:

While it might be a little complicated to determine personal
calories needed to lose fat on your own, there are some
online resources that can assist you in this respect.

If you want to lose fat, then know that a pound of fat is
about 3,500 calories, so you need to consume 3,500 fewer
calories or expend 3,500 more calories to lose a pound in a
week.

Women should multiply their weight in pounds by 12, men by--
and that's how Some calories you need to maintain weight. To
lose fat, drop 500 calories a day from that to drop off one
pound in a week.

Slow and Steady: You'll note that most of the online calorie
calculators suggest losing about a pound of fat a week.
While it is certainly possible to lose more fat in a week if
you really worked at it, but this is a healthy rate and
simple for most people to achieve either through eating less
or by moving more.

If you think about this last statistic, that cutting 500
calories a day may help you drop off one pound in a week,
you may see that it doesn't have to be difficult to drop off
weight, especially if you are working out more in addition
to your less eating.

If you burned just 300 more calories in a day exercising
you'll only need to cut about 250 calories from your daily
diet in order to lose one pound a week. If you unite cutting
calories and working more, you could drop off two pounds a
week and meet your fat loss goals even faster.

The main problem with counting calorie as a means to lose
weight is that we tend to underestimate how much we are
eating. We may not know the calorie counts of foods that we
eat out. Keeping a food diary may help track precisely what
you're eating, or you may just supplant high-calorie foods
with more vegetables and fruit and you will be well on your
way to losing fat.

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