Friday, November 13, 2009

How Many Calories Do You Need to Lose Weight?

By Nik Tartin WS

The calories required to drop off fat can vary considerably depend on how much fat 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 actually get away with eating more.

Finding Your Calories required to lose weight:

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

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

Women should multiply their fat in pounds by 12, men by-- and that's how Some calories you need to maintain weight. To lose weight, drop 500 calories a day from that to drop off 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 certainly possible to drop off more fat in a week if you actually 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 may see that it doesn't have to be to lose fat, 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 so as to drop off one pound a week. If you combine cutting calories and working more, you could drop off two pounds a week and meet your fat loss goals even faster.

The main problem with counting calorie as a means to drop off weight is that we tend to underrate how much we are eating. We may not know the calorie counts of foods that we consume out. Keeping a food diary can help track precisely what you're eating, or you can just supplant high-calorie foods with more vegetables and fruit and you would be well on your way to losing fat.

About the Author:

No comments: