-10 PTS FOR BEST ANSWER- Will I maintain my weight if i eat 1800 calories a day?????????

Question

I am a female, 18 years old , 5'8'' and 110lbs
Im lightly active meaning; i exercise 1-2 a week
Will 1800 calories make me gain or maintain my weight?

-I would like to maintain my weight due to modeling. [=.

Answer 1

To determine your approximate caloric needs, you can easily compute your basal metabolic rate. This is the number of calories your body needs to maintain its basic functions and your current weight. You can determine your BMR by multiplying your current weight by 10. For example, if you weigh 180 pounds, then eating 1,800 calories a day would be your BMR.

However, this computation doesn't take into account exercise or your activity level. For example, since someone who exercises regularly can bring in more calories and still be at their maintenance weight, their BMR would be higher. Other issues like genetics, age and the amount of body fat/muscle you have can also affect your caloric needs.

So, based on your weight your BMR would be 1100 calorie intake. Excercising regularly...though. Try to pick up walking or bicycling every other day.

Answer 2

Depends. Roughly looking at the maths, it should maintain provided you keep up with the exercise. But it depends on how often you eat (5 or 6 small meals a day tends to keep your metabolism clicking over so you can eat larger amounts of kcals without gaining weight), your genetics (some people are just lucky) and your age (you may find yourself having to re-think that figure 7 or so years from now....but I guess you're not too worried about that anyway!!) amongst other things.

Answer 3

You should have no problem at all. A person who doesn't get exercise at all is supposed to eat ten times their ideal body Weight in calories and a growing teen/child is supposed to eat about 12 times their ideal body Weight. (Roughly) IF you are working out you should have no problem but remember to not focus solely on a calorie goal but also on how your stomach feels after eating.

Answer 4

This is the idael steady weight holding plan plus it gets the excess off at the same time:
Okay. Cut out eating in between meals.
Only eat healthy food and cut down on Carb’s like bread, potatoes, pasta's, rice, cereals, lollies, fruits etc. These are the fat making foods. Learn exactly what your food groups are so you then know what puts the weight on and off.
Don’t add salt to your meals. Cut out soft drinks.
Then walk an hour every morning two hours after a meal and the same in the afternoon.

If you can jog in between both sessions you'll burn even more calories. But just do what your body lets you do. Walking is just as good combined with diet control.
You should lose and continue to lose more weight as you go.
If you can cut out your lunch meal and replace it with a protein drink instead that would also help. Available in supermarkets. Like “Slim Right”.
As long as you can stay off junk food and eating in between meals. If you have to eat something in between have something like small raw carrots or celery sticks.
Herbal teas, low fat milk and water are your best choice of drinks.

Summary:

Choose a cereal low in sugar for breakfast. Remember all cereals are carbohydrates!
Lunch can best be a protein drink. Like “Slim Right”.
And all normal meals at a normal serve. Cut down on potatoes and only have small portions of these. Walking as much as you can.
For those that want to build more muscle add some gym work to the above as well.

Technical Stuff:

All our bodies require a specific quantity of a protein level. The protein is taken from the food we eat. If we eat higher concentrations of protein from specific foods like say meat then that level is reached quickly. If we don’t eat enough protein then our body searches for other sources of protein contained within the Carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates only contain a small amount of protein so we end up consuming too much of it just to get out limit of protein. At the same time absorbing too much sugar from the carbohydrates and in turn too much weight. This is how and why we put on weight. Many people over eat because they don’t consume enough protein from the right sources. Then they over compensate by binge eating carbohydrate type foods.

Answer 5

You'll lose weight if you eat 1800 calories per day. You have to eat 2000 calories to maintain your weight.

Answer 6

If it were that easy...dieting wouldn't be such a problem for people. If you want to maintain your weight and you eat 1800 calories...you must burn 1800 calories a day. There's no specific recipe for this. It depends on your metabolism and how much energy you expend.

Answer 7

depending on your weight now, if you only consumed 1800 calories then chances are you would lose weight. I work in the healthcare industry and we put overweight patients on 1600 calorie diets, so chances are you would probably lose weight

Answer 8

if you mean eating that peice of cheesecake no you wont gain weight. If you're really worried about it just go for a run or work out after

Answer 9

you should be able to maintain your weight no problem but you will have to stick with it if you don't want to exercise more often.

Answer 10

I'd like to say yes,if you pick up your exercise routine