How many calories to lose each day?

Question

If you intake approximately 1500 calories a day,
how much should you burn off to loose weight?

I'm 5"4, 112lbs.

Answer 1

find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
dont try to lose more than 1-2lbs a week - its not healthy to lose more.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried - no junk food.

Answer 2

I keep seeing questions like this on here and I understand why, Losing weight is hard work and there are som many conflicting theories and so much to learn to get it to really work.

My advice is to invest on seeing a dietician, they will help you to construct a structured eating plan and assist you to learn more about food so that you can maintain your weight loss yourself. Before going to see one keep a food diary and write down everything that you eat and any exercise that you do for a week or two. Include everything including all fluids and all snacks, even one sultana, also record the time that you ate it. This is what they'll tell you to do the first time you see them so do it in advance and save some cash. Even just writting things down may make you think twice about what you're eating and/or show you where you're main weak areas are.

I know that you may think that it will be expensive to see a dietician, but there is nothing better to invest in then your health, you only get one life make the most of it :-)

Answer 3

To be honest, you don't need to lose weight. From what i can see, you are at about the right weight. But if was a different scenario, i would start at about 2000 and burn 500 calories a day.

Answer 4

It will depend on how so much you presently weigh. If you wish to shed pounds the healthful approach scale down your energy headquartered in your present weight and alter whilst your weight does: two hundred +lbs two,000 cals an afternoon 199- a hundred and seventy lbs 1600 cals an afternoon 169 and beneath 1200 cals an afternoon Make definite you're consuming well healthful meals. Don't be scared you'll be able to nonetheless consume pizza and hamburgers you simply have got to cause them to at house so you understand what goes into them. Substitute lean turkey or fowl for red meat Whole wheat as an alternative of white flour entire grain pastas Lots of veggies culmination and drink as so much water as you'll be able to stand. You additionally have got to get lively. Start going for walks and paintings as much as running. Try to get no less than 50 minutes of endeavor five or extra days every week. The weight will begin to soften off your frame and you are going to suppose first-rate.

Answer 5

To lose weight you must burn more calories (basal metabolic rate: http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html and exercise: http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm) than you consume. It takes 3500 calories to equal one pound fat. So to be healthy: If you ingest 500 less calories than you burn each day you could lose one pound each day. It's unhealthy to lose more than that in most situations.
And by your numbers you appear to be a t healthy weight. Have you seen a doctor or a had a personal trainer do a body composition? This would measure the percentage of fat weight to the total body weight. Something to think about.