Depends on your height, your weight, and what your goals are (gain weight, maintain, or lose weight). Women should NEVER eat under 1,500 calories a day and men should never eat under 1,800 calories a day because the body will go into starvation mode -- it messes with your metabolism and it causes your body to burn muscle instead of fat.
Here's a basic formula to figure out caloric intake:
1. Take your weight and multiply it by 10 if you're a woman, or 11 if you're a man.
2. Take that number and multiply it by 1.2 if you exercise very little, 1.25 if you're a moderate exerciser, or 1.3 if you exercise a lot. That will give you a rough baseline of how many calories you need to take in every day in order to maintain what you have.
3. If you want to lose one pound a week through diet alone, subtract 500 calories (1,000 if you want to lose two pounds a week through diet alone). Just remember NEVER go below 1,500 calories a day for a woman or 1,800 calories a day for a man.
2006-08-09 04:30:50
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answered by sarge927 7
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it depends on your weight, percent body fat, gender, and activity level.
HERE ARE THE BASICS:
1. you lose weight by consuming fewer Calories than you burn
2. you gain weight by consuming more Calories than you burn.
3. you should be concerned with losing FAT, not weight. There are 3500 Calories/Lbs of fat. To lost one pound of fat/week you have to burn 3500 Calories/week more than you consumed. there are 2500 Calories in a pound of muscle.
4. You should be more concerned with your percent body fat, not your weight.
5. the best, most effective way or burning fat is by combining weight-training and cardio exercise. The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism will be. You will burn more calories all day long, including while you sleep. A health body fat percentage for males is 7-18%, females 18-24% (approximate numbers).
6. you should eat 6-8 small meals each day - this will prevent you from eating 3 large meal which will slow your metabolism while your body works to digest the large quantity of food.
As a general rule of thumb, you should be weight-training 3-4 times per week and performing cardio 3-5 times per week.
Consider hiring a personal trainer (ISSA certified) and a nutritionist. The money spent on these services is worth more than spending money on pills and potions.
2006-08-09 05:04:55
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answered by electronics,weights,firearms 3
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On universal, human beings eating existence like parts of balanced nutrients get hungry approximately each 3 to 5 hours. verify the stability of ingredients you consume. sophisticated carbohydrates like white rice, baked products and maximum crackers or pretzels are processed via the physique extremely at as quickly as. meaning that blood sugars go up and go into opposite at as quickly as, tending to leave you hungry back interior of two hours. entire-grain breads and cereals are processed extra slowly and would leave you happy longer. study teach that starvation is happy longer while a meal or snack consists of a small quantity of protein. that doesn't ought to signify meat. Protein is likewise modern in milk, cheese, yogurt, tofu and different soy products, eggs, nuts, seeds and dried beans. additionally, vegetables and end result are lacking from many human beings' nutrients, yet they provide bulk that would help fulfill starvation. have you ever enable a low fat weight loss plan get too low in fat? fat leaves the tummy very slowly, so a small quantity of fat in a meal retains starvation happy. in the adventure that your purpose is weightloss, extra starvation would be a demonstration which you have have been given decrease your energy too low or which you're pushing to realize a weight it rather is purely too low for you. finally, evaluate this: Are you rather bodily hungry all of the time, or do you purely experience like eating? eating once you're no longer hungry can advise that eating has exchange right into a habit for managing boredom, procrastination or tension. if it rather is the case for you, the backside line is to improve approaches to handle those circumstances with out nutrition. in case you handle a number of those opportunities and nevertheless experience hungry all of the time, communicate including your scientific expert. consistent starvation no longer on the subject matter of any of those components would desire to be because of drugs or a scientific project that desires interest.
2016-12-14 03:18:02
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answered by ? 4
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Vist mayoclinic.com and find out: enter your weight and height and it will tell u how many calories u are supposed to eat each day.
2006-08-09 04:27:53
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answered by y_welton 2
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Depends on gender, age, current weight and how hard you work or work out. Yhe first link below has a calory calculator.
2006-08-09 04:31:45
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answered by Paul 4
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It actually depends on each person based on age,lifestyle etc.The best way to find out, is to use a CALORIE CALCULATOR.Click on the website below to calculate your's:-
http://pediatrics.about.com/library/bl_calorie_calc.htm
http://pediatrics.about.com/library/bl_calorie_calc.htm?start=1&gender=undefined&age=NaN&activity_level=NaN&page=1
2006-08-09 04:31:06
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answered by Anonymous
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2000 is recommended
but theres a way to figure your base amount of calories (like if you dont exercise or do much physical activities) its the amount needed to keep your body moving without exercitng much. Idk mine was like 1300 or smthg around there.
2006-08-09 04:27:11
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answered by MellyMel 4
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read some tips and articles on weight loss on this site
2006-08-09 04:26:27
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answered by Anonymous
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eat sone meat you annorexic turd
2006-08-09 04:29:36
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answered by summer b 1
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2,000--you can read it on any nutrition label.
2006-08-09 04:26:55
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answered by Annie 4
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