If you want to lose weight how many calories should one eat a day?

Answer 1

You need to drop about 3500 calories for each pound of weight loss. If you want to lose a pound each week, then a combination of fewer calories eaten and more calories burned totalling 500 per day will work. Here are some additional thoughts:

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you exercise them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Answer:Under The 1000 Calories.

Answer 4

1000-1200 calories is not enough. You should never ever eat less than 1200/day. The amount you should be eating to still lose weight depends on your current height and weight, how much weight you need to lose, and your daily activity level.

Answer 5

I believe the lowest anyone should go without a doctor's supervision is 1200 calories per day. However, depending on your current weight, you probably don't want to start out at that level.

Answer 6

Sit down and write out a typical day of food for yourself be honest about everything that goes in your mouth. Do this for three days. Be careful not to subconciously change your eating habits. If you can remember write down the three days prior. Get the average daily calories by dividing the total by the 3 days. Take the total and reduce this by 1/3. Divide again by the 3 days and you will have your daily total. This is providing you want to lose on a normal average a week loss. 2 pounds per week.

Answer 7

swap out brown rice or quinoa yes even the new super food which both add up to about 220 calories per cup for cauliflower or roasted peppers that are only about 30 calories per cup

Answer 8

Stop counting you re not going to be lose weight overnight Just concentrate on diet and exercise

Answer 9

1000-1200

Answer 10

Do squats while talking chatting on the cell phone and also while brushing

Answer 11

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