Thursday, November 12, 2009

How Many Calories Do You Need to Drop off Weight?

By Nik Tartin WS

The calories required to lose weight can vary considerably depend on how much weight you need to drop off. Losing fat is all about energy using up coupled with the amount of calories consumed in a day, so if you increase activity as well as make wiser food choices, you may in reality get away with eating more.

Finding Your Calories needed to lose weight:

While it might be a little complex to determine personal calories required to drop off fat on your own, there are some online resources which may assist you in this regard.

If you want to drop off weight, then know that a pound of fat is about 3,500 calories, so you need to consume 3,500 fewer calories or expend 3,500 more calories to drop off a pound in a week.

Women should multiply their fat in pounds by 12, men by-- and that's how Many calories you need to maintain fat. To lose fat, drop 500 calories a day from that to lose one pound in a week.

Slow and Steady: You'll note that most of the online calorie calculators suggest losing about a pound of fat a week. While it is surely possible to drop off more fat in a week if you really worked at it, but this is a healthy rate and simple for most people to achieve either through eating less or by moving more.

If you think about this last statistic, that cutting 500 calories a day can assist you lose one pound in a week, you can see that it doesn't have to be hard to lose weight, especially if you are working out more in addition to your less eating.

If you burned just 300 more calories in a day exercising you'll just need to cut about 250 calories from your daily diet in order to lose one pound a week. If you unite cutting calories and working more, you could drop off two pounds a week and meet your weight loss goals even faster.

The main trouble with counting calorie as a means to lose weight is that we tend to underrate how much we are eating. We may not know the calorie counts of foods which we eat out. Keeping a food diary can assist track exactly what you're eating, or you may just replace high-calorie foods with more vegetables and fruit and you would be well on your means to losing weight.

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