HOW MUCH calories should I eat to lose WEIGHT????

Question

I am 17 years-old and 5’6. I weight 113 pounds and eat about 900-1200 calories a day. I want to lose about 3-5 lbs. What should I do? My daily diet looks like this:

1) Breakfast: Multi-Grain Bar (140 calories)
2) Lunch: Salad (10 calories) and Fruits and Nuts (270 calories) and Iced Tea (60 calories)
3) Dinner: Slice of Meat (200 calories) and Potatoes (200 calories) and Iced Tea (60 calories)
4) All-Natural Health Food Snack (140 calories)


THANX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

This will calculate it for you:
http://www.magnetic-diet.com/calorie-calculator/calorie_calculator.html

Answer 2

You don't eat enough, are you anorexic, and if you are putting on weight with that amount of income, you either don't burn it off, or have some kind of problem. Depending on how active you are, depends on how much you need to consume. If you climb mountains, you'll need 8,000 calories a day, and if you are just chillin, about 2, 400 would be okay.

Answer 3

This depends upon age, weight, and physical activities; the baby and the growing child needing many more calories per pound per day than the adult, who has to supply only his energy and repair needs. The aged require still less than the young adult. As to weight; I have told you why overweight individuals need so little. As to physical activities; the more active, obviously the more calories needed, for every movement consumes calories.
Read more at: http://letdiet.blogspot.com/2007/05/calories-needed-per-day-for-normal.html

Answer 4

That's a pretty good weight. Why would you even want to lose? If you lose any more weight you are going to become anorexic.

Answer 5

pick up a 5 or 10 pound weight at the gym and visualize that weight coming off holding the weight in your hands helps bring home just how heavy even 5 pounds of extra fat can be

Answer 6

your body is in a starvation mode, you actually need to eat more to lose weight, but I think you may be way under weight for your height, and especially your age

Answer 7

Eat a diet filled with all natural healthy whole foods

Answer 8

Who are you trying to lose weight for? The pallbearers who will be carrying your casket after you die of malnutrition or heart failure?
Eat MORE, not less.

Answer 9

degrease by scrubbing in the shower for 15 minutes then spend 7 minutes shaving 3 minutes toweling off 4 minutes moisturizing and 20 minutes blow drying and styling your hair

Answer 10

You should do what my friend (NOT) Nicole Richie does...eat 0 calories per a day.

Answer 11

if you re having trouble getting started make a small move such as starting an eating log or buying walking shoes you re three times more likely to follow through if you start with small gestures such as these