How many calories should you burn daily?

Answer 1

It depends on your food intake, regular physical activity, age, sex, weight, etc.

Also, it depends on if you want to maintain your current weight or lose weight.

If you sit at a desk all day and don't get to move around a lot, you'll want to spend a little extra time at the gym in the morning or after work/school. If you have an active schedule at school and maybe you work weekends on your feet like at a restaurant, then you're already burning a lot of calories in just your normal activities, and you can relax a little at the gym.

If you're trying to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you're eating. Just remember that EVERYTHING burns calories...your heart beating burns calories, breathing burns calories, typing burns calories, walking to the car burns calories. You're probably burning anywhere from 1500-2000 a day by doing just your normal stuff. Going to the gym and working out and seeing "you burned 260 calories" on the treadmill screen is like EXTRA calories you're burning on top of those other ones.

Answer 2

My new personal trainer told me to burn more calories than I eat. If I eat 1500 calories a day I normally try to burn 2000.

Answer 3

That cant be answered for you. Each person is different. You should use all that you take in, that number varies from person to person.

So long as you're not gaining or losing weight, you can assume you're using all you're eating. Eat more or less, by 100-150 calories a day to change that.

Answer 4

As many as you take in if you want to keep a constant weight. For a woman, thats around 2000calories. You probably burn this much just by breathing, sleeping, eating, moving etc

Answer 5

I think its a question of how many calories you should eat per day. To understand more, read the article here:

Answer 6

It depends on what you are trying to achieve and how much you weigh. Use this to calculate it:
http://www.magnetic-diet.com/calc/daily_calorie_calculator.htm