about calories..?

Question

Calories are confusing, if you eat more than 2000 you gain fat? and if you eat less than that you lose fat or you stay the same?

Answer 1

Basically calories= amount of energy a food has. If you don't use up that energy through either everyday activity or exercise then it gets stored as fat. There's no miracle to the number 2000 that's just an average that people consume. Women about 1800, mean about 2200, so the 2000 is the average.

Answer 2

No that's not correct.
Calories in (eaten) must equal calories out (exercised/metabolism) in order for you to remain the same weight.
Basically it equates to 1 pound of fat = 3500 calories.
So if your basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories you burn doing absolutely nothing) is say 1500 a day, and you do NO exercise, and you eat 2000 calories a day, then you are consuming more calories than you burn off (500 a day) - this would add up to 500 calories a day too much over 7 days a week (=3500 calories a week) so you would gain 1 pound a week.

This would be the case where you would gain weight eating 2000 calories.

If you do any exercise, the number of calories you burn would be higher... etc etc. Understand?

Answer 3

That's incorrect. If you consume 3500 more calories than you burn, you will gain 1 pound of fat. The key is to either consume fewer cals than you burn (to lose weight) or to consume and burn about the same amount, to maintain.

A "typical" diet for most adults will be 2000 or more calories a day. Under 2000 is what many do to lose weight, but a very large or muscular person could eat over 2000 and still lose, depending on their metabolism and activity level.

The number of calories per day that someone needs to consume to maintain their weight or gain/lose varies depending on the person...their metabolism and activity level will dictate what their calorie intake needs to be.

Answer 4

A general rule is we should weigh 100# for the first 5' of height, and about 5# for every inch after that. However, your bone structure and gender also affect your ideal weight.

Calories are calories - no matter what shape or form. Your family doctor should evaluate you, tell you what you should weigh, and the amount of calories you should consume daily. If you eat more than the allowed amount, whatever it is, you will gain -- if you eat less, you will lose.

If you do not eat healthy (grains, fiber, fruit, veggies, 6-8 glasses water daily) you will pay for it with doctor bills down the road.

Candy, ice cream, soda are good. If allowed, I would live on chocolate -- but I have given up all these things because my system allows me to gain quickly. After thirty it is difficult for a lot of us just to keep our weight steady - not lose or gain.

Answer 5

2000 isn't the magic number - to lose weight you have to burn more calories then you eat/drink in a day. If you eat the same amount of calories as you burn you will stay the same and in you eat more than you burn you will gain weight. Pretty straight forward once you get used to tracking calories.

Answer 6

If you consume 3500 calories and don't burn them off, you will gain one pound. If you burn 3500 calories, you will lose one pound. Maintaining weight means you burn the same amount of calories as you consume. You burn calories by exercising, and if you eat less calories you have less to burn off. That's why people go on diets and cut the amount they eat. You could eat 10,000 calories a day and not gain weight if you can burn it all off.

Answer 7

In order to gain weight you must eat more calories than you burn. Fat is how your body stores excess energy, so when you eat to much you gain fat. Muscle on the other hand burns calories. The more muscle you have, the more calories your body will burn even at rest. One pound of fat = 3,500 calories. To loose one pound of fat you must burn 3,500 calories MORE than you take in which is why it takes so long to loose weight / and why rapid weight loss is a joke, it mostly either water weight or muscle loss. It takes time to actually loose fat. Conversely you must eat 3,500 calories more than you burn to gain 1 pound.